jbeck5
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- Jan 26, 2009
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For sure. Save percentages have a direct impact.Well, one leads to the other, take away the 30 some goals against our top two goalies allowed with that league worst sv% vs their .910, and how many of those one goal games we've had turn into wins or OTL if you remove a goal every other game? how many of the games where we just gave up after a deflating soft goal turn into competitive games with a save instead of a blunder?
you've also got a 5 game difference, so there's that as well.
I also think we just don't know how to win or get points in games. Our game management is weak.
I remember there was a point where we were like +2 on the season and yet behind teams that were -12.
It's not that we gave up more goals or didn't score enough goals...it was the timing of when we got scored on or didn't score.
We don't know how to get a point out of a game for example...or how to hold a lead.
You can say it's just goaltending, but I've seen this team pepper a team with 20 shots in a period, only to barely sustain any pressure offensively when we need to either hold off a lead, or keep the tie going into overtime to get a point, or to make a comeback.
This team is just so wildly inconsistent, and it's not just the goaltending.
The offense goes for long stretches of uselessness that I feel other teams don't go through as often.