Veggie Tales!

[TheLegend]

that's insane

No that's #VezinaVeggie

 

[AZviaNJ]

Wonder if BA's been talking to Holland about Veggie....

 

[Vinny Boombatz]

We need to keep Veggie, if we've found lightening in a bottle with him as a starter, that will only help as we move forward. Whoever was the scout who discovered him, we should get him to give us another one to come in and be the backup.

 

[Mosby]

On his pod, Craig said zero chance of Vejmelka getting moved.

 

[Mosby]

They spent a ton of time scouting this guy, so seems unlikely they'd unload him for like a 2nd rounder.

 

[Mosby]

Only 15 goalies with as many/more GP have a better save percentage.

That's not nothing for a first-year goalie playing on this shit team.

 

[rt]

Only 15 goalies with as many/more GP have a better save percentage.

That's not nothing for a first-year goalie playing on this shit team.

Agreed. I don’t have the stats but I assume he faces a lot of high quality chances from high danger areas.

Still, most of the players he’s facing don’t know who he is or anything about him. I’ll be interested to see the results when that changes.

 

[YotesFan47]

Agreed. I don’t have the stats but I assume he faces a lot of high quality chances from high danger areas.

Still, most of the players he’s facing don’t know who he is or anything about him. I’ll be interested to see the results when that changes.

This comes up a lot and I can't imagine any good goalie and goalie coach don't know they need to adjust at times and train certain skills to keep teams/players on their toes. If Vejmelka is actually more than a 1 hit wonder and puts in the work, I imagine he'll be fine. He's certainly showing the necessary athleticism.

 

[Hogan20]

When does Veji get consideration for the Calder? Does he even get votes if he keeps playing like this?

 

[Jamieh]

When does Veji get consideration for the Calder? Does he even get votes if he keeps playing like this?

I think the goalie in Detroit would still be ahead of him if a goalie was getting a chance. But keep it going and its definitely possible.

 

[XX]

When does Veji get consideration for the Calder? Does he even get votes if he keeps playing like this?

Maybe some token votes but there's a ton of strong skaters this year. Raymond/Zegras/Seider will probably be your 3 finalists.

He'd need to do something absurd like post a mid .920's sv % with some big shutouts to get any attention.

 

[Hogan20]

Maybe some token votes but there's a ton of strong skaters this year. Raymond/Zegras/Seider will probably be your 3 finalists.

He'd need to do something absurd like post a mid .920's sv % with some big shutouts to get any attention.

Yea I should probably have walked down the Calder finalist thing. But I could see a world where he and Ned both get some token votes as the "respectable rookie starter who stole countless games on an AHL team"

 

[SniperHF]

Agreed. I don’t have the stats but I assume he faces a lot of high quality chances from high danger areas.

He's 25th in the league (minimum 5GP) in high danger save %. Wedgie is 42nd.

TBH he's not getting peppered all that bad (at least by the numbers, sometimes a checked box of "high danger" doesn't really describe the danger)
He's 12th in high danger shots against per 60. Which isn't the worst though it's out of 50 qualifying goalies so it's definitely not an easy workload.


I kinda wonder about score effects on these things too. IE get down 2-3 goals, Yotes are out of it so other team quits trying as hard.

 

[Jormungandr]

Is Nedeljkovic even eligible for the Calder? He was a finalist last year.

 

[Hogan20]

Is Nedeljkovic even eligible for the Calder? He was a finalist last year.

Yes. The numbers for calder are 25 games in one season or 6 or more games in two preceding seasons.

Ned has played 1 game in 16-17, 1 game in 18-19, 4 games in 19-20, 23 games in 20-21.

 

[Jormungandr]

Yes. The numbers for calder are 25 games in one season or 6 or more games in two preceding seasons.

Ned has played 1 game in 16-17, 1 game in 18-19, 4 games in 19-20, 23 games in 20-21.

Well yeah, I see the games played aspect. I just find it weird that he could’ve theoretically won the Calder two years in a row.