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Around the League 2019-2026 Edition

Lovely win. Nerdies say it was a touch lucky, and I am concerned that Vegas can still win this one. But just need 1 of 3. I beleaf.
 
Preston said:
Yup. Both teams had top 4 nerdies and were in the final 4! Just the point is that one of those teams has 26 points more than the other, but nerdies say that was sorta lucky and goaltender driven (which isn't that important in playoffs since small sample randomness with goaltending creates that volatility as we saw with the Wedgewood drop off). Tldr: nerdies always win
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Just stop caring so much about goaltending, you'll never be able to control their performance in a 7 game series like you can with a 1c or 1d. And also you can't be afraid to change your goalie.
 
If Rod can knock out Marner next game and hold him to squat, that’ll be a dream playoff finale for me. They will point to his point total but there will be lots of talk about his disappearance when it was time to put up or shut up.
 
Preston said:

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Just stop caring so much about goaltending, you'll never be able to control their performance in a 7 game series like you can with a 1c or 1d. And also you can't be afraid to change your goalie.
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Modern goaltending is basically either get one of the top like 3-4 guys (Hellebuyck, Sorokin, Vasilevskiy), or you get 2 guys who you somewhat trust, and just hope that they can share the load and get hot in the playoffs.

Although even with that, Hellebuyck was an .895 goalie this year, and even Sorokin has only really been a mid-tier guy for the last 3 seasons.

I mean, Andersen had an .874 save percentage during the regular season, but crushed it in the first 2 rounds, didn't really get tested much in the Montreal series, and now isn't even their backup goalie for the last couple games. Adin Hill had a terrible season, but they could very reasonably give him a shot next game and he could put up back to back shutouts.
 
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