Around The League - 2025 Playoffs
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GrandWazoo
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Hellebuyck is so so bad in the playoffs, crazy.
You were the one offering
On road at least
lecoqsportif
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On Sortie de Zone they were talking about too many games played this season. Same for Vasilevskiy this year.
Seems like a plausible explanation. Hellebucyk plays a shit ton of hockey.
GrandWazoo
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There is something else going on, never seen a goalie having such a drop in performance so consistently in the playoffs. It’s like a drop of 0.08 in save %.
Sal_Butera
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Over last 8 seasons Hellebuyck has played: 67, 63, 58 (all games before Covid shutdown), 45, 66, 64, 60, 63
Diekembe played 62 this past season, 41 is the most he’s ever played… last season
Hellebuyck has been wayyyy overused for a very long stretch now
Vasilevsky has played over 60GP 4x during his career, his worst 4-playoff seasons. When he’s limited to 53GP or less, his playoff performance has been very good….. IMO that’s more than a coincidence
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lecoqsportif
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But I agree that Montembault was overplayed this year. He did look pretty solid in the playoffs until he was hurt, but there were stretches in the season that were not great.
Gotta get him down to 50 games.
Gotta get him down to 50 games.
Habsy
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60/40 split was my thinking as well. Need Dobes or Primeau to step up.
Fowler the year after next.
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
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The word you're grasping for is "clutch" and Hellebuyck isn't it. He's playing against the same goalie he lost to at the 4 Nations.
Overall, Hellebuyck is a better goalie than Binnington but Binnington is clutch. That's why he has a ring and Hellebuyck doesn't. And if both their careers ended today Binnington would have had the better career, even though statistically he would look nowhere near as good. Cups matter.
Habsy
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GrandWazoo
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There is clutch, which is raising your game in key moments, and there is completely forgetting how to play. He’s not even an NHL goalie right now.
So bizarre, isn’t it?
east coast
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He's completely useless. Its is actually funny, its so ridiculous.
CH1
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That’s a symptom of a team still trying to grow into itself — Monty, Matheson, Newhook all playing above their ideal time slots
We got lucky that Hutson went from playing 40 college games to a full NHL season of big minutes without missing a single beat
Habsy
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CH1
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I need a Dallas win