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What if Mantha miraculously exceeded Franzen's production, will you and Lefty finally get along ?

Anyone play xenoverse 2? Was thinking about getting it.

Well he's a big boy. 6' 2 and only 16 years old. He'll probably grow another couple inches. If he's good I'd try to draft him. Big skilled wingers are hard time come by for us

How goals would you like him to have so far?

He was like Superman

The reason I brought up last season snd compared to this season is because last season the decision was easier since Howard wasn't playing all that well. But this season he made the decision harder for Blashill. When you're leading the league in the two most important goalie stats, it hard not to notice.

For goalies, that's not true. On the opposite actually, when Mrazek was going thru his slump in February, Blashill kept being persistent and kept starting him with Howard taking a few games here and there. They ended up slitting a lot of the games in Feb/March. But no, Mrazek didn't all of a sudden sit 4 games in a row, he was given plenty of opportunities. This season has been an exception because Howard starting playing like a Vezina goaltender and had insane stats. And remember that when Howard started sucking last winter, Mrazek took the starting position and held it for a good two months before he lost it again. I'll criticize Blash when it's deserved but when it comes to giving Mrazek opportunities, his track record has been just fine, given the circumstances that this team is trying to do whatever it can do win. If we were a top seeded it would be a mo brainer, you keep starting your future goalie regardless of how long his slump has been. But when your roster is mediocre al around, you're scrambling to get the right combination for success. Blashill kept Larkin on the roster since day one and Mantha is still here too. When the young guys play extraordinarily good, it seems Blash likes to keep them up. The one guy he pissed me off about was AA. Not sure what Blash has against him

"Zetterberg to Mantha... SCORES!!!" I've heard that quite a few times lately. Looks like a good chemistry to me. It seems to go under the radar but many of our young players have shined as Zs winger. First Filpula, Hudler, Abdelkader eventually Nyquist, then Larkin, now Mantha. That's why I still appreciate having brokeback Zetterberg. Next bring Svetchnikov in, get him trained up as well and Z will have done his last duties to the org.

That much I will agree with.

Yeah he was fine in his initial games and I recall even praising him. But then as the season went on I think I was one of the first commenting of his inconsistency because he was letting in too many goals per game for a stretch.

Mrazek hasn't sucked the entire year, I was exaggerating. But he's had a disappointing season overall thus far and it's still early.

Chance does not equal games won. Chance means chance regardless of the final result. Read the rest of my post I added more to it.

I DISAGREE WITH UR FACE No I'm happy that Howard was giving us a better chance of winning. And I'm happy that at the very least, Blashill is open to playing the hot hand rather than being a stubborn idiot and playing one goalie who obviously was in a slump. For some reason even with Howard being the better goalie at the time, you're pointing out his past and going off into tangents to compare him to Mrazek. It's not really warranted in this situation. As far as the first paragraph about wins/losses. That logic doesn't make sense. A goalie having good personal numbers isn't just about winning the Vezina, that actually defines the goalie as being THAT good. For instance lets say we have goalie A who won 10 games but in 8 of those games lets say he allowed 5 goals in each game and in 2 of them he allows only 1 goal per game. And let's say you have goalie B who won 8 games and in all 8 games he only allowed 1 to 2 goals per game. Which goalie would you rather have? The one that has the ability to stop most of the shots he faces? or the goalie who consistently allows 5 goals and keeps getting bailed out by his offense? What if in goalie A's case the offense is no longer able to bail him out? Will goalie A still be able to keep winning games with his s***ty GAA? Probably not. So yeah personal numbers make a huge difference whether it's winning of Vezina or winning a game.

Hold your hoses there righty, you got 60 more games to be wrong!

We'll be sure to keep that quote in mind next time you point out how Howard allowed a late goal in the 3rd period but ends up winning a game. Remember, a win is a win, so no need to keep pointing out when Jimmy lets that 3rd period goal in... Unless you're just changing our beliefs to make Mrazek look less bad. Which I'm 99% sure you're trying to do. Because no person in the league at the professional level would EVER disregard personal numbers. You might be the first person on this forum that's gone to this extent to cover up for a goalie. BTW you still haven't explained why Hasek won the Vezina and was regarded the best goalie in the league that year with a crappy win/loss but amazing personal numbers.

Why do you keep bringing up Howard in a discussion about Mrazek's individual performance? You keep going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about Howard. We get it, you hate Howard and feel it necessary to point his past performance out to try to make Mrazek look better. You can keep trying but it won't change the fact that Mrazek has sucked this season. Just accept it and hope for the best. That's what the rest of us are doing. We're rooting for Mrazek but we're not going to sugar coat his performance and make excuses and try to change principles about how personal numbers all of a sudden don't mean anything in hockey.

Their shooting percent is 9.1 and 9.5. They're fine lol.

This could be a bad thing for him. One of the reasons they kept him in the line up was because he was a big body. With the weight lost, if he doesn't produce, there won't be a reason to keep him in the line-up

Is anyone still complaining about losing Pulk and Frk? I guess you're only half right on that

Dude, read your own posts. You brought up Mrazek's own terrible numbers and then made excuses for him. You talk about how he's the starter but then all of a sudden say "well he hasn't even had 2 seasons yet". So is he a starter or is he still treated like a baby rookie? What is it? If he's a starter then can we stop making excuses for him and hold him accountable? And I've never heard of someone say "personal numbers don't matter compared to wins or losses". That makes zero sense. Dominic Hasek had phenominal GAA and Sv% (2.11 and .930) and won the Vezina in the 1995 season but had a win-loss record of 19-14. So explain to me how he was considered the best goalie that year if his win-loss was terrible but actual personal numbers were great? It sounds like you're just making excuses for Mrazek. It amazes me that someone can actually justify a GAA of 3.00

Red Wings had more overall hits than the Canadians. You're wrong and so is your previous and current prediction Lefty

Back on the Overwatch grind

He's no Raffi Torres

What to do with Vanek? Take him out and Vanek at the disco