And, perhaps most painful within this point, it's not even an opinion anymore.
Sit down for this: From March 5 onward, meaning the final six weeks of the NHL's regular season, which concluded for them last night in St. Louis with a 7-5 loss to the Blues, the tandem of Stuart Skinner and Arturs Silovs teamed up to have an absolutely abysmal .851 save percentage that, as one would expect, ranked 32nd out of the league's 32 teams.
As in, the worst.
In that span, among all 32 goaltenders with a minimum 10 games, Skinner's .877 save percentage ranked 25th, and Silovs' .850 ranked dead last. Within the latter, Silovs' .630 save percentage on high-danger chances was so far away the worst in the league that the next-worst, the .724 of the Hurricanes' Brandon Bussi, was nearly 100 points higher.
As for the Flyers' Dan Vladar, in that same span, his save percentage was .900, just around league average for the season.
I don't know that it'll matter much in the first round of Stanley Cup playoffs, as the Penguins' skaters make them an all-around superior team to the Flyers, but I do know it's a hell of a way to enter any postseason. Never mind that Dan Muse probably still would prefer to stick with the perpetual hey-neither-of-these-guys-can-make-a-save rotation.
THE ASYLUM
DK: The WORST goaltending
The Penguins' goaltending is the worst.
And, perhaps most painful within this point, it's not even an opinion anymore.
Sit down for this: From March 5 onward, meaning the final six weeks of the NHL's regular season, which concluded for them last night in St. Louis with a 7-5 loss to the Blues, the tandem of Stuart Skinner and Arturs Silovs teamed up to have an absolutely abysmal .851 save percentage that, as one would expect, ranked 32nd out of the league's 32 teams.
As in, the worst.
In that span, among all 32 goaltenders with a minimum 10 games, Skinner's .877 save percentage ranked 25th, and Silovs' .850 ranked dead last. Within the latter, Silovs' .630 save percentage on high-danger chances was so far away the worst in the league that the next-worst, the .724 of the Hurricanes' Brandon Bussi, was nearly 100 points higher.
As for the Flyers' Dan Vladar, in that same span, his save percentage was .900, just around league average for the season.
I don't know that it'll matter much in the first round of Stanley Cup playoffs, as the Penguins' skaters make them an all-around superior team to the Flyers, but I do know it's a hell of a way to enter any postseason. Never mind that Dan Muse probably still would prefer to stick with the perpetual hey-neither-of-these-guys-can-make-a-save rotation.
Scary stuff, to say the least.
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