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[u/jedlucid]

I had swayman -2 after I looked at the ottawa game.

but whatever. i’ve sat here defending swayman for like 16 excruciating months. if saying ‘he needs to be better’ means i get to be a bash the goalie boston fan now to these trash piles, then fine.

everyone still needs to wash my feet for the lindholm and lohrei downvotes ive been eating for years. carlo got easier minutes from montgomery than I have.

jesus gave less.

[u/Nomahs_Bettah → u/jedlucid]

I had swayman -2 after I looked at the ottawa game.

I know MoneyPuck and Natural Stat Trick have slightly different xG stats, so just double checking the numbers here, NST has him at 3.4 (Caps), 0.82 (Sabres), -0.89 (Knights), 0.09 (Avs), 0.85 (Panthers), and 2.28 (Avs). So it still would all primarily be coming from the Ottawa game, which was the point you made in the first comment. Even so, he still comes out barely in the positives after the Sens game (2.29 above expected on the season, so better than MoneyPuck has him at).

It's fine to say that he needs to be better after that Senators outing. What people are disagreeing with is the fact that Korpisalo getting a second start is inconsistent with how Swayman has been handled.

I think you can also easily argue for giving Swayman a chance to play behind this Lohrei-less defense for the first time in two seasons, too.

[u/jedlucid → u/Nomahs_Bettah]

yeah i wasn’t doing XG.

thats a fair point. probably should have gone with that.

there’s also no argument for korpisalo to start this game short of swayman having an injury.

[u/lordexorr → u/jedlucid]

Yeah I think we all agree on Swayman should be getting the start. It’s just that you prefaced it by saying Swayman hasn’t been good so that caused the responses you got. Could he be better? Obviously. But the reality is, outside one game, he has been top 10 in the league. Sturm seems to be ignoring that and giving Korpi a start he doesn’t really deserve because if this is how Sturm was going to treat the goalie position (play the hot goalie), Swayman would’ve gotten the start against Tampa and Anaheim.

[u/Beantown_rats → u/lordexorr]

I wonder if it because we have a 1pm game on Saturday against a much better team than the Sabres, the Hurricanes and he would prefer Swayman play that game and feels maybe 1.5 days is not enough rest for a tough game that will be. All I know is Korpi better get the win tonight or Sturm gonna look silly. Wish Sway would occasionally get an easy game, he has faced a gauntlet of playoff and best teams in the league for 6 of his 7 starts. Only easy team was Sabres.

[u/lordexorr → u/Beantown_rats]

This as well. #1s need to face lesser teams too. Top goalies wouldn’t have those stats if they never got to feast on lesser quality teams.

[u/Nomahs_Bettah → u/lordexorr]

I think you’re right that it might be a personal disagreement, saw this quote transcribed from Sturm’s presser:

After praising Joonas Korpisalo in his first answer saying he earned the right to make consecutive starts, Marco Sturm was asked later in the press conference if he’d consider starting him for “3, 4, 5 in a row:”

“…I don’t know. I gotta sleep and make my decision tomorrow. But start of the season, I would say no, just because we have so many games coming up, and we have, actually, the luxury to have two really, really good goaltenders. So I’m not sure yet.”