You can get out goalied and still win
Exactly! Hockey is a team game and it's never one player who is at fault when you lose. People keep talking about Freddie outplaying the other goalie as if it's a requirement - it's not. It's the team as a whole that needs to outplay the other team. Sometimes it's the goalie who bails out the rest of the team when they're playing poorly and sometimes, it needs to be the rest of the team who bails out the goalie when he's having an off night. Around here though it seems like some people always blame the goalie no matter how badly we get outplayed.
Yes his .904 save percentage will take us a long way in the playoffs
never in my life have i seen such a fragile number one
this is freddy in a nutshell
let the first shot on goal go in
Let the other tesm score in the last minute of a period
Cant stop a beachball on a breakaway
Let at least one soft floater from the blue line go in
Cant make a save in a shootout
Last year his playoff SV% was .936, it's been one of the most bizarre narratives around here over the years that he was to blame for us losing when the truth is, he was spectacular and if the rest of the guys played as well as he did we easily get past CLB.
Usually it takes a SV% of at least .920 to win the cup but not always. STL did it with .913. WSH did it with .916. Freddie's playoff SV% for us has been .915, .896, .922 and .936. So bad one year (we almost won anyway), pretty good another time and last 2 years he was very good and then spectacular. Cant' win with Freddie is complete BS, plain and simple.
It's a team game guys, that's all there is to it.
Cant make a big save at a crucial point in the game
He's actually done this literally hundreds of times over the years.
Freddie's best years might be behind him. Or maybe it's a slump and he'll bounce back and help us win the cup - until last night he's played very well lately after a shaky start (and a shaky start isn't surprising with no training camp etc.).
I was reminded last night of why I almost never even look at GDT's. Every time we give up a goal, people here lose their minds and usually it's Andersen who people are blaming, even when he had almost no chance at all of making the save (like the 2nd and 3rd goals last night). Never change Leaf fans, never change.