Quoting: Campabee
Kadri was a repeat offender who deserved that suspension, he is a very skilled player but has a short temper. There was also a history of getting suspended in the playoffs so the Avs should have realized that was a good possibility. It's not asinine to say that the Avs won't win with Keumper, goalies who change teams have very little to learn in the way of the systems, they are not position players who have different responsibilities in different situations. Sure there are certain things to learn like where players are going to be when he gets the puck behind the net and such but not too much is system related. We are almost 30 games into the season if he isn't beating the mid their teams regularly he isn't going to do it down the stretch and into the playoffs. Keumper has a 2.87 GAA and .904 sv% in 17 games with an Avs team who are widely regarded as having one of the top 5 defenses in the league. The Avs definitely need an upgrade in goal.
I think you actually mean he is 1-8 since in order to play 5 games in 2019-20 he had to win a game. That aside, he faced 28 shots per game in those 5 games and the next year in his 4 games he faced 35 shots per game. That is more indicative of a weak defensive team than a bad goalie. Teams that give up almost 30 shots per game rarely win playoff series, I don't see how that is on a goalie, it's not like he can control which end the puck is in even if they allowed 6 goals a game they also scored at a 4.4 goals per game pace so that entire series wide open early season esk play style and everyone had been off for months before the play-ins. In 19-20 if the Blues had played better defensively they may have won that series but even if you want to blame the goalie, sometimes they just have a bad year. As for last year, the Blues allowed 35 shots per game and only scored 7 goals over 4 games. Tough for even the most elite goalies to win in those situations. I mean goalies don't score goals
Quoting: Campabee
Kadri was a repeat offender who deserved that suspension, he is a very skilled player but has a short temper. There was also a history of getting suspended in the playoffs so the Avs should have realized that was a good possibility. It's not asinine to say that the Avs won't win with Keumper, goalies who change teams have very little to learn in the way of the systems, they are not position players who have different responsibilities in different situations. Sure there are certain things to learn like where players are going to be when he gets the puck behind the net and such but not too much is system related. We are almost 30 games into the season if he isn't beating the mid their teams regularly he isn't going to do it down the stretch and into the playoffs. Keumper has a 2.87 GAA and .904 sv% in 17 games with an Avs team who are widely regarded as having one of the top 5 defenses in the league. The Avs definitely need an upgrade in goal.
I think you actually mean he is 1-8 since in order to play 5 games in 2019-20 he had to win a game. That aside, he faced 28 shots per game in those 5 games and the next year in his 4 games he faced 35 shots per game. That is more indicative of a weak defensive team than a bad goalie. Teams that give up almost 30 shots per game rarely win playoff series, I don't see how that is on a goalie, it's not like he can control which end the puck is in even if they allowed 6 goals a game they also scored at a 4.4 goals per game pace so that entire series wide open early season esk play style and everyone had been off for months before the play-ins. In 19-20 if the Blues had played better defensively they may have won that series but even if you want to blame the goalie, sometimes they just have a bad year. As for last year, the Blues allowed 35 shots per game and only scored 7 goals over 4 games. Tough for even the most elite goalies to win in those situations. I mean goalies don't score goals
Come on, Kadri gets 8 for a hit during the play not saying he doesn’t deserve something but Reeves gets an intent to injure and admits he was trying to hurt him and gets 2 games? That wouldn’t have anything to do w/him rep-ing for Parros wife’s clothing company.
Yeah the Avs have a good d-Corp when it’s healthy but they have 12th most gaa year to to date because of all the injuries including to Kuemper. They have played 21 different forwards, 9 different dman forgive me if I’m not going to pull the plug on a guy after 17 games after giving up a 1st and top prospect.
Bro Binnington is 0-9 because the play in game counted and he lost. Sub .900 save percentage and the guy in each of the last 2 years has lost his mind in the playoffs.
All that aside, I want to say thank you. We don’t see eye to eye on stuff but I’ll take arguing about hockey with somebody passionate about it any day of the week.