Rich Nixon
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Flyers Future for Stolarz?
This week, I looked at Stolie's (very, very) brief NHL career so far, and consider whether or not he deserves a shot at the backup role.
So I guess his name popped up in the Talbot talks around the time I published this guy. Would you prefer Talbot over Stolarz? Do you think Stolarz has been given a fair shot with the Flyers?
He’s only notched a .903 SV% so far this season, though it’s worth noting that the bulk of that damage occurred during the team’s fateful Western Canadian road trip in December, when the wheels of this season–and Dave Hakstol’s coaching career–fell off completely.
Asked to play an absurd five games in just eight days, Stolarz allowed 15 goals on 91 shots behind a ragged, defeated Flyers team. Even during a 6-5 team collapse against the Calgary Flames, he played better than his numbers: he allowed six goals, but they occurred on 41 shots, many of them from high-danger scoring areas. A match days later against the Vancouver Canucks proved to be Hakstol’s last, and Stolarz exited early with a nagging injury after allowing two goals on the first four shots.
On that trip, he was brutally overworked, allowing 17 goals on 121 shots (a .860 SV%) and getting hurt in the process. But outside of that one nightmare week, his results have again been mostly stellar: just 18 goals allowed on 237 shots across seven appearances, good for a .924 SV% and a shutout.
This week, I looked at Stolie's (very, very) brief NHL career so far, and consider whether or not he deserves a shot at the backup role.
So I guess his name popped up in the Talbot talks around the time I published this guy. Would you prefer Talbot over Stolarz? Do you think Stolarz has been given a fair shot with the Flyers?