must be a slow week for ya EK. Andersen is not a starting goalie. Please...you are a bigger troll than Tanner.

I give you this click because it seems like you really need it.

10-20 of a 30 team league? So it he 10th best or 20th?

There is a pretty big difference.

I'd argue he is elite based on the # of shots he has seen in the past 2-3 years, the quality of the scoring chances he has faced and how he has performed. He routinely sees in excess of 35 shots per game and many of those are good quality chances, not shots from the perimeter.

Now if you want to say he hasn't been able to shut the door in game 7's when they needed him too I'd agree with you, but his team doesn't help him much at all.

Just my admittedly biased opinion as a Leaf fan AND a goalie.
- Cush29

Elite?

Are you (frank)ing kidding me.

Elite?

Are you (frank)ing kidding me.
- Aetherial

I'd like someone to please ban the use of the word 'elite' from all sports talk ever.

I've been saying this forever

Anderson isn't an elite goalie. He's average at best. Look at his numbers..... Average.
- RedRevenge

There have been stretches over the last couple years where Andersen was their best player and carried them.

The rest of the time he is an average starter and the very best.

I'd like someone to please ban the use of the word 'elite' from all sports talk ever.
- eichiefs9

I think we should replace it with generational.

I think we should replace it with generational.
- Aetherial

Who is the most elitist of all the generational players in the NHL? It's a big sample size, since this generation has approximately 10-12 once-in-a-generation players

Who is the most elitist of all the generational players in the NHL? It's a big sample size, since this generation has approximately 10-12 once-in-a-generation players
- eichiefs9

It is generation x, where x = as many generational players as you want.

It is generation x, where x = as many generational players as you want.
- Aetherial

Try being an "elite" goalie playing on the leafs with how bad their defense is. Andersen is a top 5 goalie in the league, easily.

The problem is bacock. The team is losing but he keeps putting out the same lines every game. Yea, let's keep playing Ceci 21 minutes a night. Let's turn Barrie who was a 60pt defenseman into a 20pt guy. Let's not switch up the powerplay at all when it isn't working. Babcock is so set in his ways there is no climbing out of this problem with him behind the bench.
- matt1337

Top 5 goalie carries their team. Andersen is not top 5. More like 10-15.

Frost better be back in time for Psyicadelic Sunday

Andersen is a 10-20 NHL starting goalie.
He's definitely not elite.
- MaximusAurelius

not wrong, problem as well is when comes playoff time he lot closer to 20th then 10th...

This is a funny blog.

* Anderson is clearly a number 1

** Georgiev is a career 22-21-6 with a 3.01 GAA and .914 save % - No way he gets you Nylander or even a first.

I'd like someone to please ban the use of the word 'elite' from all sports talk ever.
- eichiefs9

generational as well, please and thanks. Especially when in relation to a particular skill, or partof the game, instead of the player as a whole. "Generational wristshot", "generational skater", "generational defensive forward".

Enough already.

I would say that Andersen is an NHL starter, in the 12-20 range!

We need a D, Andersen would be fine if we could play some defense in front of him.

It is generation x, where x = as many generational players as you want.
- Aetherial

big

5 mil backup on a cap riddled team.........sounds like a great idea

Frost better be back in time for Psyicadelic Sunday
- HamiltonHawk

To bad Q107 drop that show

We need a D, Andersen would be fine if we could play some defense in front of him.
- Garnie

Wouldn't be surprised if Barry gets shipped out, Ek is missing the boat on him.

If I had to rank all the NHL goalies

Price
Fleury
Vas
Rask
Gibson
Rinne
Bishop
Andersen
Lehner
Bobrovsky
Hutton
Kuemper\Raanta
Markstrom
Hellebuck
Dubnyk
Hart
Murray
Varlamov\Greiss
Holtby
Grubauer
Binnington
Koskinen\Smith
Riitich
Lundqvist
Howard
Korpisalo
Blackwood
Anderson
Mrazek
Jones
Quick

If I had to rank all the NHL goalies

Price
Fleury
Vas
Rask
Gibson
Rinne
Bishop
Andersen
Lehner
Bobrovsky
Hutton
Kuemper\Raanta
Markstrom
Hellebuck
Dubnyk
Hart
Murray
Varlamov\Greiss
Holtby
Grubauer
Binnington
Koskinen\Smith
Riitich
Lundqvist
Howard
Korpisalo
Blackwood
Anderson
Mrazek
Jones
Quick
- xShoot4WarAmpsx

Eeesshh....I'm not sure that you had to & I honestly wish you hadn't!

- eichiefs9

Eeesshh....I'm not sure that you had to & I honestly wish you hadn't!

- Salami_Tsunami

Its not the list Hockeybuzz deserves but the list that we need

Crawford for Kapanen and Dermott
- ChicagoHope

No team will ever trade for crawford. He's always hurt

There’s a team wide lack of commitment, attention, awareness, and general care about playing D and making the sacrifices needed to be quality and effective in that area.

That’s the problem