This is probably most relevant and easiest to gauge with goalies because their mistakes are most glaring. Players in the NHL outside of goalies play a team game and each player's mistake isn't that noticeable. In basketball if a guy takes the final shot and misses every time he's not clutch. In football if the QB turns the ball over on every final possession he's not clutch. So isolating goalies I wonder what the consensus is.
For the Rangers I get a lot of heat for complaining about Shesterkin giving up goals late in games quite often. He's unbeatable in the first 55 minutes of games but three of the last 4 games has given up big goals in the last 5 minutes. That said so have his backups. But his backups just suck. To be fair he's still a young goalie who hasn't played a full season yet and I think early on in his career Hank also had problems with third period leads and also had problems finishing shutouts.
So I honestly wonder is clutch a thing in the NHL particularly with goalies? Or is it just random that these goals happen in the last five minutes and they would have happened in the first period as well?
I know some Rangers fans will be annoyed by this poll but I'm legit curious about having a discussion on this. This is not a vent about Shesterkin thread, he's a great young goalie overall.
For the Rangers I get a lot of heat for complaining about Shesterkin giving up goals late in games quite often. He's unbeatable in the first 55 minutes of games but three of the last 4 games has given up big goals in the last 5 minutes. That said so have his backups. But his backups just suck. To be fair he's still a young goalie who hasn't played a full season yet and I think early on in his career Hank also had problems with third period leads and also had problems finishing shutouts.
So I honestly wonder is clutch a thing in the NHL particularly with goalies? Or is it just random that these goals happen in the last five minutes and they would have happened in the first period as well?
I know some Rangers fans will be annoyed by this poll but I'm legit curious about having a discussion on this. This is not a vent about Shesterkin thread, he's a great young goalie overall.