Emperoreddy
Show Me What You Got!
Man no quotes about ''Throwing hits, blocking shots, or the toughness element in a big division game?''
Yeah he has to go. It's not even like he's playing good defense. In fact he keeps declining every year, and this year he was even worse than last year. Last year I thought he was serviceable (Still way too overpaid though) this year he isn't at all. We'd fare just as well bringing back Colin White for league minimum. Hopefully Vanderbeek pulls the plug sooner rather than later. And Deboer is an idiot for insisting he be in the lineup yesterday.
As for Hedberg and the defense playing bad in front of him. The defense at even strength wasn't so much the problem when Moose was playing. Our penalty kill was however a big problem. It went from 8th to about 22nd in the league in a matter of about 2 weeks. I'm pretty sure in 4 or 5 games it went from being 13th to like 22nd. It started to go bad before Marty got injured, but it went out of control sometime during right before Moose coming in. Some of the goals were completely his fault, but the PK was so poor in some of those games there was nothing he can do. Also on the topic of the team playing poorly in front of him they were playing poor offense. They gave him 1.83 goals a game of support while Marty was out. To win those games he would have needed a GAA of under 1.83 which not many goalies in this league have.
Exactly that. Moose definitely gave some soft, and some putrid goals, and did not help us win...but the team was not helping him either. The PK was what was terrible. They were caught out of position so many times in those games it was disgusting. The failed clears and giveaways were up too (via eye test, remember they never credited Volch with a giveaway yesterday). We forget how solid Moose was early in the season too.
Moose's biggest problem is when he leaves the net, if he just stays in the net most of the time he is fine. It all goes wrong when he starts trying wacky stuff and leaves the crease. Someone needs to remind him he isn't Marty.
It is going to be Marty/Moose next year period, done, end of story. We aren't buying Hedberg out, and neither is going to retire. If you think we are doomed before the puck even drops next year because of it then save yourself the trouble and don't watch because that is a long time to be upset about two goalies.