Why the **** are we arguing about how much Darling sucks in a game when everyone agrees that Ward played fine?
What a completely unnecessary derail just to get the last word on Darling’s umpteenth consecutive horrible game three days ago.
I didn't bring up Darling. Others did.
The sentiment going into the offseason last year was that our goaltending (Ward and Lack at the time) was the reason for our X consecutive missed playoffs and if we could get better goaltending, we'd be a lock.
At the time, I argued the same thing I'm arguing now. Given how little our team scores, changing goalies won't make a lick of a difference. Unless we're expecting a Vezina performance from Ward/Darling/Fleury/Bishop/whoever, goaltending was not and is not the biggest issue for this team.
I was dismissed as a "Ward defender", as if the thought that an offense that produced as little as it did last year (and unsurprisingly has this year) could have any affect on a team's playoff chances.
So when I see the same arguments being made again this year, with the idea that Darling is somehow the biggest issue on the team and not the fact that our offense has essentially been 1 guy for the entire season (TT in the first few months and Aho since then)...