FLYguy3911
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- Oct 19, 2006
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I'll do it. Hell, I won't even cost that much. Beats will hate me though.
Playoff record is goofy to look at. Bergeron and Marchand's playoff numbers would be butt if they played for teams built by Flyers management. They'd have no support for the bulk of their careers.
You could drop Rask and Thomas on the Flyers and similarly, they'd have failed too. Lack of support and all. Bad management things, but without the Boston luck to compensate for bad management.
If we had Rask, Hakstol would still be our HC and we'd have multiple deep PO runs the last four years.
Yeah, definitely not. Rask isn't Hasek.
Definitely so, you underestimate how bad our goalies have been the last four seasons, which implies how good the rest of the team actually has been, despite the nay-sayers:
2017-18:
Elliott (41) +0.16 - PO (4) +2.23
Neuvirth (21) +0.15 - PO (3) +2.00
Mrazek (17) +0.84
Lyon (11) +0.15
2018-19:
Hart (31) +0.30
Elliott (26) +0.28
Stolarz (12) +0.66
Pickard (11) +1.64
Neuvirth (7) +1.84
2019-20:
Hart (43) +0.06 - PO Hart (12) -0.28
Elliott (31) +0.45
2020-21:
Elliott (30) +0.83
Hart (27) +1.25
Lyon (6) +0.90
I'm confused, exactly what has Gallant done in three coaching stints to make you think he's a good HC?
One good run with Vegas, one good regular season in Florida which ended with a 1st rd loss. His second year in Vegas he sneaked into the playoffs with 93 points and lost in the 1st rd.
3 PO appearances in 9 seasons doesn't inspire confidence.
Goaltending isnt "all that matters" but it is the most important aspect of team building.
It takes an elite team playing at a high level to overcome below average (below +0.10) goaltending.
And no HC can overcome bad goaltending, it's like running a race with 10 lb weights on your ankles.
Good HCs make the life of goaltenders easier. Bad HCs do the opposite.
Goalies aren't operating independently of the team and coaching as some kind of make-or-break wildcard.
But that's reflected in xGA, some goalies have low GAA b/c their defenses limit tough shots, others overcome bad defense (Hellebuyck).
These stats aren't perfect and aren't accounting for what happens to a goalie mentally when a team overloads one side and suddenly they have to cover multiple open options at once.....over and over and over without relent, and there is nothing they can have faith in. This Flyers season was stat-breaking-outlier levels of bad.
Our team defense on a systemic level was worse than Winnipeg's.
The "blame the coaching, not the goalies" narrative is just another lame excuse to defend the players for lousy play and/or for being overrated by the fanbase.Every team gives up HDCA, Flyers didn't not give up an usual number (13th, all situations), and good goalies stop some of those shots.
Flyers had the worst HDSV% at 76.69%.
Buffalo was the median at 80.54%
Top 5: AVs, VGK, TB, Edm, Winnipeg
Winnipeg was 30th in HDCA. Blackhawks were 31st (defense? we don't need no stinkin' defense).
Many of them sure were.The players weren't lousy
Playoff record is goofy to look at. Bergeron and Marchand's playoff numbers would be butt if they played for teams built by Flyers management. They'd have no support for the bulk of their careers.
You could drop Rask and Thomas on the Flyers and similarly, they'd have failed too. Lack of support and all. Bad management things, but without the Boston luck to compensate for bad management.
These stats aren't perfect and aren't accounting for what happens to a goalie mentally when a team overloads one side and suddenly they have to cover multiple open options at once.....over and over and over without relent, and there is nothing they can have faith in. This Flyers season was stat-breaking-outlier levels of bad.
Our team defense on a systemic level was worse than Winnipeg's.
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2015-16: 22nd in GFRask is good, but he's not so elite that he can make up for Hakstol's horrific offense.
It is interesting to watch you decide that "goaltending is all that matters" as a new means of absolving coaches of blame.
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