Fezzy126
Rebuilding...
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I mean.....he's not wrong. Ullmark hasn't been terrible. He's been "fine". Perfectly average, IMO.
It's so difficult to tell, I have such a bad grasp on goalie analytics it's not even funny. Every stat seems to paint a completely different picture; Quality start %, GSAA, HDGAA, HDSV%, Standard stats, etc. No matter what stat you look at, it seems to be a crap shoot every year with a completely different set of goalies at the top of each of these lists. There just doesn't seem to be a good way of quantifying team effects into any of the available goalie metrics.
For what it's worth, while our goalies started off above average, they are not really performing well in any of these stats anymore (they range from below average to really bad).
One thing that I tend to notice is the quality of skill of goals scored in Sabres games. This is strictly based on the eye test, but it seems like the majority of our goals are high skill goals; Jack, Sam, or Victor snipes, Sheary showing a momentary lapse of skill for 3 minutes each month, KO picking a spot, etc.
On the other end it always seems like the opposition scores way more workmanlike goals; bad angles, deflections, pucks off of skates, a goalie sliding way out of position and they get a tap-in. For example in the last game Vegas had 3 wide open nets and could only capitalize on one.
I'm not saying we have more skill than the opposition, it just seems like a much higher percentage of our goals are skill-based goals compared to the opposition. Not sure where I'm going with this, other than to say we need more sandpaper to increase our 'gritty' goal totals and I think we can do better in goal, most likely as a result of our pipeline.