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Blob Mckenzie wrote:Goaltending is no worse than it was before and it was never good enough to win a cup . Would much rather pay 2.6 million for average goaltending than 9.3 million .
I'll have to disagree here Blob.
Although I have a lot of confidence that one of Lack or Markstrom will become a superb goalie one day, there's no way you can compare them to Luongo/Schneider right now................by implying that our goaltending NOW is just as efficient as it was from 2006-2013.
Pauser wrote:Goaltending sure as hell was good enough for us to win, assuming we had a competent offense which we didn't, but it's more logical to ask more out of a poor offense than it is to ask more out of a goaltender who's terrible at scoring goals.
Pauser is correct here Blob. Luongo and Schneider certainly had a few "chinks in the armour" so to speak, but they gave us pretty good goaltending for the most part. Our losses in 2011, 2012, and 2013 was largely due to our impotent offense.
Our losses in 2009 and 2010? You might have a point there.
You can disagree all you want. You can huff gas with the pauser too...that's ok. Either way the entire team has shit the bed lately and it wouldn't matter which goalie was in net during the last 6 weeks , it wouldn't make any fucking difference.
At this point Luongo is a slightly above average goalie making big money signed for 8 years. Lack/Markstrom are average and improving and are making chump change. If Luongo/Schneider are marginally better who gives a fuck ? The team has much bigger issues than their goaltending atm. Goaltending is about as important as the quality of the 4th line .
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Blob Mckenzie wrote:
At this point Luongo is a slightly above average goalie making big money signed for 8 years. Lack/Markstrom are average and improving and are making chump change. If Luongo/Schneider are marginally better who gives a fuck ? The team has much bigger issues than their goaltending atm. Goaltending is about as important as the quality of the 4th line .
At the beginning of next season Lou will have the 12th highest cap hit among goaltenders. That isn't factoring in what Ryan Miller, Jonas Hiller, and Jaro Halak, will sign for. It's not unthinkable that they end up in the $5.5M range.....Miller will probably be $6M or more. That would dump Lou to 15th. It's just the term that is big.
You're right though, if this team could have scored at even a 2.5+ goal/game pace this year we would probably be sitting around 5th in the West. Goaltending has not been the issue.
Blob Mckenzie wrote:
You're right though, if this team could have scored at even a 2.5+ goal/game pace this year we would probably be sitting around 5th in the West. Goaltending has not been the issue.
And if we didn't constantly have defensive gaff after defensive gaff which led to glorious scoring chances for the opposition.
Blob Mckenzie wrote:
You're right though, if this team could have scored at even a 2.5+ goal/game pace this year we would probably be sitting around 5th in the West. Goaltending has not been the issue.
And if we didn't constantly have defensive gaff after defensive gaff which led to glorious scoring chances for the opposition.
The Canucks have been putting up a GPG of 2.4ish. Even if they hit the 2.6 mark they would still have a negative differential, but they would have added 15 goals to their total and with the way they have lost so many low scoring games that could be the difference of 8 or 9 wins, so that would mean we would be fighting for 6th with LA. And with those extra wins would come a bit of a boost in confidence which often translates into better play all around.....blah blah blah.....all hypotheticals, I know.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City staring Gina Luongo caught in a whirlwind and clicking the heels of her red shoes together three times while saying, "There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home."
Over the Internet, you can pretend to be anyone or anything.
I'm amazed that so many people choose to be complete twats.