honestly this is pretty much every goalie in the 3-15 range. Like the only two guys in the world you can rely on really are vasilevskiy and now shesterkin. even the next tier of guys (saros, markstrom, hellebuyck) have their stinkers, and then what you described is basically the description for “high end starter” lol (although i would argue that smith is FAR streakier, he mixes 10 game stretches of what you said with the complete inability to stop a puck for 10 games)
I get what you’re saying but Smith/Kuemper in the playoffs have been giving up a lot of low danger goals at the worst times. Obviously goalies in the 3-15 aren’t perfect and have their bad games, but for the most part I think they do well with stopping low danger scoring chances.
And that's the problem. Multiple wrongs don't make a right.
Correct but Tampa has had such good luck with the refs the past few years I have 0 sympathy for them. They had 2 goals last year in their series with the islanders where they had too many men on the ice, and one of them was the short handed series clincher
Correct but Tampa has had such good luck with the refs the past few years I have 0 sympathy for them. They had 2 goals last year in their series with the islanders where they had too many men on the ice, and one of them was the short handed series clincher
Once again, that's cause of bad officiating, not Tampa's fault.
At least they're consistent. Consistently bad, but consistent.
Jon Cooper currently pissing and crying in the locker room because he feels bad for his 2x Stanley cup winning team because Colorado got away with something Tampa has probably gotten away with 10 times the past 2 years
And there's been probably 5-6 missed calls after that.
On both teams though... I think the game has been called relatively evenly. The officials set the standard of "each team gets one, then we're calling nothing", and have stuck to it