No, he's really bad. My friend @Bleedred does a review of all games on the Devils board of goals and how many of them were stoppable and Talbot almost always has a lot of stoppable ones. I think Jake Allen is currently the leader in allowing softies FWIW.
He’s been very bad. Every bit as bad as those numbers suggest. The only thing I’ll say in his defense is that he really hasn’t looked much worse than Koskinen, who has been almost as bad, but it’s not showing up as much in his save percentage like it is in Talbot. There’s been more than one game this year where Talbot allowed 4-6 goals and I thought he should have had 3 of them. Trust me, you don’t want him. Most Flyers goalies this year haven’t looked as bad as him, except for maybe Neuvirth.
He actually does not lead the league in my count, but he has one of the highest percentages. And it’s BAD. He hasn’t been much worse than Koskinen, who is somehow sporting a league average save percentage, which was in the .920’s around New Years. Lundqvist and Hellebuyck lead my count, Bobrovsky isn’t too far behind. I think I have Talbot down for 32 already and the league leader is at 37, but my data is on my computer. The league leaders aren’t necessarily the worst (much like GAA) but have played a lot of games and allow a lot of goals. Hellebuyck is also near the league lead in games played. Talbot definitely has one of the highest percentages though. Mike Smith may be a little worse on my count out of goalies that have played more than 20 games.
I wouldn’t say dirty exactly but if you put a gun to my head and made me, then I would say Mallon Marchand and Neal were malicious if Gudas and Simmonds were dirty.
Yeah, I don't think you can call Simmonds dirty. The only slightly controversial instance I remember was when he punched McDonagh. But even that I wouldn't consider a cheap shot or anything.
