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Thanks, this usually matches me eyes closest in games,but those are always basically a direct for/against comparison in game.
TB is the best team and seem unbeatable but they are playing with fire these days and are worse than the leafs in GAA. What is their excuse. They are lucky to have such a powerhouse offense or they'd be in trouble.
I feel that their luck is about to run out soon, they've been playing horrible defensively and in net lately, they allowed the Habs to score 5 goals last night, the game before that, the Flyers (who we beat 6-0) scored 5 goals, the Oilers scored 3 goals on 28 shots. BTW, Vasilevskiy played all 3 of those games with a sub .900 S% in each game. Before that, the Flames scored 4 on Domingue.
What I'm trying to ask here is that everybody says that TB has a defense (with Hedman) far better than the Leafs, and Vasilevskiy is far better than Andersen so then why is our GAA better. We are 7th in the league with a GAA of 2.79 and TB is 17th with a GAA of 2.97.
Well the facts are that Vasilevsky isn't better than Andersen.
Andersen has a better save percentage (.923 vs .920) but more importantly has put those numbers up in 30 games relative to Vasilevsky's 19
He has faced 325 fewer shots than Andersen which makes his save percentage more susceptible to variation whereas Andersen's is more established over a longer term with more data. Just posting save percentage is a weak comparison. The context is important.
Their defense does limit more chances that ours does. They are stronger back there.
If we meet them in the postseason, we'd have to hope our goaltending/offense can outplay them.