Freddy Andersen quickly becoming Carey Price levels of overrated.
With the way people are speaking about him it’s as if he didn’t just have a so-so series vs the Islanders and has won the last 12 vezinas.
For real, he's had a good year and was really good down the stretch. But I've been seeing a general theme of Andersen basically completely mitigates the goaltending advantage the Rangers would've had and I just couldn't disagree with that more.
Andersen is a really good goalie and he COULD have an amazing series. He also, as you said, was so-so against the Islanders and he has a dubious playoff history at best so he absolutely could be mediocre or even bad in this series. Which even at his best, he's still the second best goalie in the series.
It's odd that he's being talked about like he's suddenly prime Roy or something like that and not a guy with a pretty well known playoff pants shitting history.