Why should playoff results matter for goalies and not skaters? Especially when considering regular season awards?
- BINGO!

Logically, you are absolutely correct.

But reputations do matter. And they matter in Vezina voting. They matter to a degree in a lot of NHL awards. Should they? No. But they do to a degree..

ALL I was saying was a general statement about how Lu is perceived.

Honest.

Logically, you are absolutely correct.

But reputations do matter. And they matter in Vezina voting. They matter to a degree in a lot of NHL awards. Should they? No. But they do to a degree..

ALL I was saying was a general statement about how Lu is perceived.

Honest.
- John Jaeckel

I agree with that. There is east biased voting when it comes to awards. Lu should have won it in 2006-07 season, lost by 8 votes to brodeur.

Lu should have also won the Hart that year but thats a different argument.

I agree with that. There is east biased voting when it comes to awards. Lu should have won it in 2006-07 season, lost by 8 votes to brodeur.

Lu should have also won the Hart that year but thats a different argument.
- SRam19

I would agree, he is better than his reputation.

Logically, you are absolutely correct.

But reputations do matter. And they matter in Vezina voting. They matter to a degree in a lot of NHL awards. Should they? No. But they do to a degree..

ALL I was saying was a general statement about how Lu is perceived.

Honest.
- John Jaeckel

So Stamkos should never win anything for the regular season then... If we are basing this off of reputation in the playoffs.

Crawford
Luongo
Schneider

HockeyBuzz Hotstove: Hotstove: Midseason Vezina Favorite?
- ToddCordellVAN

no love for Mrazek?


perhaps most under-rated goalie in nhl right now

CC is a 2 time Cup winner.. A 2 time Jennings winner and is leading the league in shutouts and yet... no AS game invite and not really being talked about for the Vezina. Its being bantered about in here but not in the real NHL circles. Thats fine... all it does is motivate him.

holtby 2.01 gaa .930 save %
crawford 2.08 gaa .932 save %
luongo 2.11 gaa .930 save %
schneider 2.03 gaa .928 save %
mrazek 2.03 gaaa .932 save %

CC is a 2 time Cup winner.. A 2 time Jennings winner and is leading the league in shutouts and yet... no AS game invite and not really being talked about for the Vezina. Its being bantered about in here but not in the real NHL circles. Thats fine... all it does is motivate him.
- z1990z

Similar to every player, different teams= different players contribution. I'm sure if you put Schneider on the Hawks, he would be doing the same if not better than CC. I'm not so sure how Crawford would be doing on the Devils. But that's just my opinion. Obviously CS could be trash on the hawks, I mean who knows, I just think he'd be dirty considering how he's playing on a team clearly much worse than the Hawks. I'm just happy Schneider is being mentioned, he certainly deserves to be involved.

I'm sorry, but not to mention Holtby is simply criminal.

Nazem Kadri

Nazem Kadri
- sbroads24

Calm down, Tanner

So Stamkos should never win anything for the regular season then... If we are basing this off of reputation in the playoffs.
- CoHo_to_B-Lo

No, man, LOL, all I said was reputation can play into the voting, not that it should, relax.

holtby 2.01 gaa .930 save %
crawford 2.08 gaa .932 save %
luongo 2.11 gaa .930 save %
schneider 2.03 gaa .928 save %
mrazek 2.03 gaaa .932 save %
- homiedclown

No love for James Reimer?
Yeah yeah, I know, he won't win. But still, those numbers are pretty good
1.97gaa
.937sv%

no love for Mrazek?


perhaps most under-rated goalie in nhl right now
- homiedclown

Mrazek is 16-1-1 when his team scores more than 1 goal.

No, man, LOL, all I said was reputation can play into the voting, not that it should, relax.
- John Jaeckel

Just giving you a hard time

Tanner,
You are out to lunch on the Panthers being a 5-6 man team!
They are what the Oilers should strive to be!

Right. Got it. Thanks.

It was really more a comment on Lu in general, specifically "Underrated goalie for sure but often underperforms in the playoffs."

Not this year, since the playoffs haven't happened yet. And they don't matter as far as the Vezina, in theory, but in reality, as everyone knows, reputations do matter.
- John Jaeckel

well maybe there's a thread where that's what the blog is about.

ramo

Victor Hedman. He is going to win save of the year, too.