I don't see much cheating on our part to be honest, most of our offense we manufacture the right way
I don't see much cheating on our part to be honest, most of our offense we manufacture the right way
Now yeah. But that wasn't the case for most of the season. Also, Kucherov is still cheating...like he always is. Domingue's performances have been better than his numbers.
Yeah, I think we make exceptions for Kucherov in that department, as we should. He's been stealing a few pucks defensively lately too.
I don't believe Domingue's performanes have been better than his numbers though. I think his numbers line up pretty evenly with his performances, when you take both the bad and the good into account. He hasn't had a lights out game in a while, but he had plenty of stinkers when Vasy went down. The last couple of games have been solid, but he's still giving up softies, just fewer of them. Add that all up and I think his numbers reflect exactly the season he's having.
So for example when the team, 5-1 up vs Philly, started picking flowers and taking stupid penalties in front of him...do you really think it was Domingue's fault that Philly came back? You can't be serious about that. They fooled him on a number of occasions...just like they do with Vasi at times.
He's a very average back-up, with the numbers of a very average back-up. Blaming his numbers on poor defense just doesn't work.
Our defense may be sloppy as times but this is absolutely nothing compared to some of the stuff Bishop saw in his first couple years and Vasi to a degree in his first 2 years. Our defense is light years cleaner than what it was 4-5 years ago. Play him in Bowness's system and he'd have been chased out after 2 weeks.
The last two games yeah. Before it was mostly as ugly as before. Also has to be noted that the six defenders aren't the problem...at least not since Sustr is gone. It's a careless play by some forwards as well as the turnovers they produce.
The last two games yeah. Before it was mostly as ugly as before. Also has to be noted that the six defenders aren't the problem...at least not since Sustr is gone. It's a careless play by some forwards as well as the turnovers they produce.
Domingue was routinely giving up 4. We had some lapses, sure, but that would make us one of the worst teams in the league defensively, which wasn't close to the case. The difference was Domingue played very poorly. He's playing better now, but I don't think we can just forget how bad he was for a stretch, where he would give up 1-3 goals per night on routine shots. It'd be different if he had a long history of playing well consistently. But this is pretty much his history. He wasn't waived by Arizona for no reason.
No it wasn't. Bishop used to face high danger chances consistently and have to stand on his head for a win, almost every win was contributed to outstanding goaltending. Domingue's situation is the complete opposite, he just has to sit there and make the standard saves, get beat by a couple grade A chances and the team will likely pull out a win, it's when he can't do that and lets in the standard saves is when we feel the heat. Outside of maybe 1 or 2 games he hasn't really had to stand on his head.
You obviously didn't watch a lot of Yotes hockey. In Arizona, usage was the problem. Nevertheless, Domingue did well when Smith went down.
Bad post. Vasi tired out because he had to save the team night after night. You really seem to forget rather quickly. Domingue also had to make 30 (or something like it) saves in certain periods just because nobody else was playing for the Bolts.
Who that boy in the middle?
This never happened.Bad post. Vasi tired out because he had to save the team night after night. You really seem to forget rather quickly. Domingue also had to make 30 (or something like it) saves in certain periods just because nobody else was playing for the Bolts.
He also flopped 3 goals in a couple periods so.................
Like I said outside of 1 or 2 games where he played impressive he hasn't had to do anything but be average and failed at that more often than not. You seem to have selective memory.
It's you having a selective memory. All you remember is the last two games when everybody except Kucherov was fully commited to defense and solid two way hockey. You can't seem to remember all of those games when the team let Vasi (and Bishop before him) out to dry. I had Bishop in my Fantasy team and I have Vasi now...I know exactly what I'm talking about.
This never happened.
I mean - your entire posting on this topic has been hyperbole and falsehoods. It's truly remarkable. We've been middle of the pack (15th) in Scoring Chances Against according to Natural Stat Trick, while being in 1st in Scoring Chances For. As far as "high danger chances"? Again we're third in the league for. Twist? We're 5th in the league against. Second in HDC% (behind Carolina, so clearly these stats aren't perfect).
Dom has had great defense in front of him. We don't allow many chances from the slot at all. We defend odd man rushes better than anyone in the league.
@Bleedred has been tracking how many "stoppable shots" goalies let in this season. It's not a super complete picture because it doesn't adjust for those "eh, maybe could've had it but that shot is going to beat you every now and then", and it doesn't adjust for 10 bell saves or anything like that (assuming it's out of the goalies control, so breakaways, 2 on 1s, etc.), but it still gives a good picture. I wish he would collect all of the data in one place (he's just putting it in the scoreboard thread on the Devils board), but one thing it shows is that Dom lets in *a lot of bad ****ing goals*.
He's left the team hung out to dry a whole lot more than the opposite. Shots 10-3 Lightning? Score 2-1 Panthers.
You don't get it. Yes, defense is great but the two way game of certain forwards isn't and it's been like that for years. If you think that it's particularly easy to be the Bolts Goalie, go ask Vasi who has been left out to dry many times. Yeah, Domingue has a tendency to save the impossible ones and let in the easy ones but he's been good overall and I don't think Vasi could have done much better.