But again, the Penguins goaltending has performed exceptionally below how the defense has performed. Even if you assume the Penguins defense has been far away the worst in the league, whic it hasn't, that doesn't justify Jarry's save%. His save% is so far below anything that can be considered even reasonable with a terrible defense.
Uh, what?
Don't attribute arguments I've never made to different discussions please. There was no argument for keeping Fleury over Murray in 2017.
Luckily we have two goaltenders to judge this by, and frankly, giving up 3/3+ goals per game isn't really supporting your theory (that's both goalies) that it's just the goaltending. You either are just numbers watching and going by that 100% or you are just trolling at this point. The real difference here between Jarry and DeSmith is a bloated game #1 6 goals against and game #2 3 goals in half a period where nobody was playing well. Overall, both only have a couple games of respectability.
last part: Actually there was, but the ED, being younger and lower cap hit came into play where it just made more sense to keep Murray. You still had the situation we are having now, then. Statistically, both being around 3.0 GA.
They simply were not suppressing the high danger shots anymore. You lost the guys willing to do the dirty work.
That's Bonino, Hagelin, Cole, Lovejoy, Kuhnhackl they kept removing from the team. You also have to account in how much hockey they played those two seasons and it wouldn't be wrong to say they had a let down either way. The amount of injuries and so on taking a toll wearing them down, but the nucleus was there until it wasn't.
They have been scrambling ever since to get it back. You see, just throwing a bunch of names on a piece of paper due to being good players doesn't mean they are the right mix of players. That's happen since. Oh, this guy replaces this one because he got a lot of points like saying Guenzel replaces what Kessel did. 2 totally different players and skillsets.
They simply have not really replaced what filled a lot of holes there currently is, now. They gambled and lost.
Start looking for leaders in shot blocking/ high danger shots against suppressers and you'll fix the PK and a lot of the front of the net stuff.
Funny is, Adam Larsson is tops and if Edmonton wants to let him go I'd do my best to get him. Not one Penguin in the top 40 on defense in shot blocking. Shocking, I know. Tanev is the only Penguin to show up on the top 40 for forwards. Not shocking....
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