Yeah, why not stick with what hasn't worked before. Brilliant idea. It's not like I called weeks ago what would happen if they continue to play him. It's narrow minded and beyond dumb. Finally give the poor man a break and play him once he's ready for it.
I don't even know if there's a way to solve Binnington. In my view he just got figured out. However, based on what we've seen we know what doesn't work and that's playing games. He's getting worse with every game. Trying to solve his issues is far more likely to work than to just continue to put him in net and watch him get lit up.
Binner has played 1 game in the last 4 weeks. His last start was 12 days ago. He went 16 days between starts before that. Husso has started 9 of our last 11 games. One of Binner's two starts was the 2nd half of a road back-to-back.
This idea that the Blues keep trotting him out there to try and let games fix him isn't remotely true. Moreover, your narrative that they were doing that in the past and it didn't work is also complete and total fiction.
When Binner got COVID his season-long SV% was a .912 through 16 starts at the end of November. There is no real world argument to be make that he was broken at this point and in need of rebuilding his game. He had slumped in November (.903 for the month) but nothing remotely out of the norm for a starting goalie. He returned in our last game before Christmas and allowed 4 goals on 34 shots. He then played our first game after Christmas and allowed 2 goals on 28 shots to bring his season SV% to .911 at the close of 2021.
Binner played the Winter Classic and this is the first possible moment you can plausibly point to in order to argue that he became broken and in need of major fixing. He allowed 4 goals on 33 shots, with 2 of them going in off our own player. I absolutely don't believe anyone should have looked at this game and concluded that he was in a free fall and in need of rebuilding his game. He started our next game against the Pens and allowed 5 on 41 shots. None of them were softies, but if you want to claim that he was broken here for your narrative be my guest. Husso played the next game and then Binner started the next against Dallas. He allowed 1 goal on 27 shots, which seems to be a data point
against your idea that it never works to let him play his way out of shit if you felt that he needed to sit for a month in the start of January. At the conclusion of the Dallas game on 1/9/22 he had a .910 for the season. Your narrative that he's been bad all year is fantasy. The idea that the Blues at this point should have sat him out for a month to rebuild his game is pure and total nonsense.
That Dallas game was over 6 weeks ago and Binner has played just 3 games since. Husso got the next game after Dallas because he was playing too damn well to not split starts. Binner then looked really bad against Toronto in our next game, which led to Husso getting our next 3 games. Binner got the tail end of a B2B and looked bad again vs Calgary. That led to Husso getting the final 2 games before the all star break. Binner plays against the Devils, looks awful and then Husso gets the next 4 games. These 3 games in between long stretches of inactivity have cratered his season-long SV% from .910 to .898.
The Blues have done
exactly what you claim they aren't doing. He has gone very long stretches between starts since giving away 2 points vs the Leafs on 1/15/22.
He's played 2 games in 37 days since then. Your notion that they need to 'give him a break' and that they 'just continue to put him in net' is full blown fiction.
