Rantanen doesn't get forgotten at all. If anything, he's consistently overrated.
Or he had to face the #1 seed in the West then a top 5 defensive team in the league?It's a lot easier to be perceived as a "playoff performer" when your already top of the league PP time increases to a ridiculous 5 minutes every game, and you play teams like Arizona, and face goalies like Smith and Jones coming off sub-0.900 seasons.
It's a lot easier to be perceived as a "playoff performer" when your already top of the league PP time increases to a ridiculous 5 minutes every game, and you play teams like Arizona, and face goalies like Smith and Jones coming off sub-0.900 seasons.
This is basically a thing for everyone in the NHL. If you play on a good team, or with good players on your line, or even if you play on a line with bad players but have good players on your team, on HF most of your work is discredited and attributed to being the product of someone else. Or good goaltending. Or good coaching.Welcome to Tampa status. No one on your team is actually good because everyone else on the team is so good
Oh sorry I keep forgetting that Leafs fans have a very strict code of what we’re allowed to post. Sorry for offending your sensibilities.It wouldn't be a proper offseason without unnecessary amount of AV's praising threads and Leefs fans complaining about everything.
I'm not really sure you can call 0.917 or 0.895 goaltending "hot". That's more average and well below average.Avs faced a hot goalie in Smith against CGY two years ago and Kuemper again this year.
Not sure what career stats have to do with anything, and there's a big difference between 0.917 goaltending and 0.952 goaltending in a series.Smith had a .917% against the Avs. Funny you bring up regular season stats when the goalie that you've been claiming stole the series from the leafs is rocking a career .908%.
Defensively this regular season, Arizona was 18th, and Dallas was 10th.Arizona and Dallas were two of the top defensive teams this season.
I'm not really sure you can call 0.917 or 0.895 goaltending "hot". That's more average and well below average.
Not sure what career stats have to do with anything, and there's a big difference between 0.917 goaltending and 0.952 goaltending in a series.
Defensively this regular season, Arizona was 18th, and Dallas was 10th.
Yes, they got very good goaltending in the regular season, but we were talking defensively. Unfortunately for those teams, neither goalie played at the same level in the playoffs (and Bishop got injured).Dallas allowed the second fewest goals in the league and I believe Arizona allowed the 4th fewest.
Yes, they got good goaltending in the regular season, but we were talking defensively. Unfortunately for those teams, neither goalie played at the same level in the playoffs (and Bishop got injured).
This past playoffs he didn't look all that great to be honest. His balance - which is his worst asset by far - was even worse than usual and he looked out of sort at times, yet somehow managed to score 21 in 15. Even when he looks like a complete waste of space offensively he somehow makes a pass that makes your jaw drop and gets an apple in the process.
Sub-0.900 goaltending is quite a bit worse than "average", even with Dallas playing worse defensively. If there's a team that gets good GA results as a result of their goaltending playing well, it's not really the same production difficulty to face them when their goaltending isn't playing well.Yeah, I thought Khudobin was merely average against the Avs. Still two teams that didn’t allow a lot of goals in the regular season.
Sub-0.900 goaltending is quite a bit worse than "average", even with Dallas playing worse defensively. If there's a team that gets good GA results as a result of their goaltending playing well, it's not really the same production difficulty to face them when their goaltending isn't playing well.
The main point is that playoffs are a unique situation and setup, and different players deal with drastically different impacting factors. Things aren't averaged out the same as they are when facing 30 different teams over a bigger sample. Even more than for the regular season, you can't just look up raw points and jump to conclusions.I’m not really sure what your overall point is though.
The main point is that playoffs are a unique situation and setup, and different players deal with drastically different impacting factors. Things aren't averaged out the same as they are when facing 30 different teams over a bigger sample. Even more than for the regular season, you can't just look up raw points and jump to conclusions.
Nobody said he wasn't a good producer in both.The main point is that Mikko Rantanen produces whether, or not it’s the regular season, or the playoffs.
Nobody said he wasn't a good producer in both.
He was up and down. Four games over .900, three games under .900.
I’m not really sure what your overall point is though. Rantanen produced fairly consistently the last 3/4 years. I don’t know why some up and down goaltending from Khudobin is so important when looking at a large sample size.
Literally nothing in that statement is true.He's trying to diminish his playoffs accomplishments because his favourite players haven't nearly had the same amount of success.