So basically the people that want us to tighten up are proposing something like the no-event system that Hynes dialed us back to playing every time the goalies were giving up too much and, thus also stifling our own offense in the process? Even if nobody is saying we play that time of way, that's gonna wind up being what happens.
If we do that, we'll score less goals. Gillies and whatever bum or injured guy that gets thrown in there will no doubt allow fewer goals (because we won't be allowing 35 shots in as many games), but they're still gonna suck and they're still gonna be allowing too many goals for the number of shots they face. I don't think facing only 25-30 shots a night is gonna make Gillies start to play at a .910% or even a .900% clip, at least not for very long.
The guy still seems good for about 3 goals against in a lot of the games where we don't allow 30 shots.
I feel like Ruff already had us playing something like that for about a 5 game stretch in December when Blackwood was really falling apart. There were a couple games there where shots were like 24-20 or something and we lost in the shootout in at least one of them. I think that shutout Blackwood had against the Flyers was in that stretch too, which was a very low-event, low-shot, low-scoring chance game. And we struggled to score more than 2 goals during that stretch.
