Nope not all. All year Hutton gave up an abnormal amount of god-awful goals, far far more than Rinne does. To get back to the original point, that makes Hutton far more deserving of the criticism.
Nope not all. All year Hutton gave up an abnormal amount of god-awful goals, far far more than Rinne does. To get back to the original point, that makes Hutton far more deserving of the criticism.
Del Zotto getting 3 minutes of ice time is a joke..just about par for the course for Trotz.
Which goalie gave up 4 goals on 18 shots tonight? Who has three consecutive games with a sv% below .850? Who is 2-5-0 for the month? Since when are expectations higher for a backup in his first NHL season than for a $7 million per year alleged starter?
Which goalie tonight has had two seasons of elite numbers, and three others of solid numbers? Which one has over 300 NHL games played while maintaining a .919 save percentage? Which one has been in the running for the Vezina? Which one has had his hip sliced on twice in a year? Which one has actually earned an NHL contract?
And which one was a career AHLer up until he was gifted an NHL contract?
Let's not go off the deep end because a guy who hasn't played since October hasn't looked so hot behind a pretty bad team in all of seven games. Bringing a small sample size to the table is a terrible idea when there is a much larger sample size to refute it.
Which goalie gave up 4 goals on 18 shots tonight? Who has three consecutive games with a sv% below .850? Who is 2-5-0 for the month? Since when are expectations higher for a backup in his first NHL season than for a $7 million per year alleged starter?
You know what would be worse?
http://www.capgeek.com/player/643
At least our guy has a reason for having fallen off for a handful of games. That guy has had an entire season to not suck, and, well, he still has.
Tomorrow the sun will rise.
Which goalie tonight has had two seasons of elite numbers, and three others of solid numbers? Which one has over 300 NHL games played while maintaining a .919 save percentage? Which one has been in the running for the Vezina? Which one has had his hip sliced on twice in a year? Which one has actually earned an NHL contract?
And which one was a career AHLer up until he was gifted an NHL contract?
Let's not go off the deep end because a guy who hasn't played since October hasn't looked so hot behind a pretty bad team in all of seven games. Bringing a small sample size to the table is a terrible idea when there is a much larger sample size to refute it.
Who's creating higher expectations? I'm just asking him to let in fewer absurdly bad goals, that 100%, should be stopped. I think that's fair to ask of any goalie.
I'm more willing to give Rinne the benefit of the doubt, because he's actually proven he can play at an elite level, for multiple seasons. For a guy getting what might be his only shot? Nope.
I'm not worried about Rinne for a multitude of reasons
1. He's still shaking off the rust. He's coming off months of injury and after a brief conditioning stint and a handful of AHL games is back to an NHL schedule. He's already shown flashes of brilliance where he's been clearly on his game since he's come back. It'll most likely take him some time to get settled back into the regularity of it and shake off all the rust.
2. The team in front of him is really not that good defensively. Yes, Weber and Josi are great, but despite how many grinders and two way forwards we have many nights they just go out there and lay an egg as badly as hutton or dubnyk have this season. Our 2nd and 3rd pairings are both young and prone to making mistakes off of mental lapses and have been leaving our goalies out to dry on a semi-regular basis all season. Rinne can only stop so many of those.
Sure with any long term injury there is reason to worry, but we should really be worried if we're 3 weeks into next season and Rinne is really looking mortal then. Give him a full training camp and pre-season and summer workouts and all that and I think we'll see the Rinne we all know and love. However on an uninspired team that has frequent defensive lapses or just isn't really trying on the ice some nights and coming off a major injury of course he's going to struggle some. Calm down and give it time.
The reasons you state above are why I am only worried, not panicked. Im worried that the infection left Rinne with some lasting pain and/or mobility issues. It will worry me all summer until I see him in the fall and he's the old Rinne...