{"id":208772,"date":"2024-12-20T10:22:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crossingbroad.com\/?p=208772"},"modified":"2024-12-20T10:22:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:22:41","slug":"flyers-goaltending-is-a-problem-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crossingbroad.com\/2024\/12\/flyers-goaltending-is-a-problem-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Flyers Goaltending is a Problem Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rough patch for the Flyers, who lost 7-3 to the Kings Thursday night, 6-4 in Detroit on Wednesday night, and 4-1 in Minnesota on Saturday. They&#8217;ve lost six of eight and now have 32 points in 33 games.<\/p>\n<p>The goaltending has regressed back to October levels of concern, when were looking at Tankathon and introducing James Hagens hashtags,<\/p>\n<p>Some stats from Sportradar to illustrate the problem:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>goaltender save percentage:<\/strong> .880 (worst in NHL)<\/li>\n<li><strong>goaltender even strength save percentage:<\/strong> .881 (worst in NHL)<\/li>\n<li><strong>goaltender power play save percentage:<\/strong> .866 (11th)<\/li>\n<li><strong>team goals against per game:<\/strong> 3.55 (4th worst)<\/li>\n<li><strong>goalie goals against:<\/strong> 108 (4th worst)<\/li>\n<li><strong>total shots against:<\/strong> 908 (20th)<\/li>\n<li><strong>shots against per game:<\/strong> 27.5 (23rd)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sam Ersson:<\/strong> .884 save percentage, 3.03 goals against average<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aleksei Kolosov:<\/strong> .878 save percentage, 3.34 goals against average<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ivan Fedotov:<\/strong> .877 save percentage, 3.49 goals against average<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So they&#8217;re giving up a lot of goals while only facing shots at a bottom-10 rate. Meantime, there are 31 goaltenders with a save percentage above .900 and the Flyers don&#8217;t have any of them. And guess who is #1 this year? Anthony Stolarz, who is more or less platooning with the equally-impressive Joseph Woll in Toronto. Stolie the Goalie has a .927 save percentage and a 2.15 goals against average. It&#8217;s kind of a kick in the nuts because you look at the list this year and see dudes like Petr Mrazek and Calvin Pickard up there. Two Flyers legends.<\/p>\n<p>Carter Hart is long gone and not coming back, but you do realize now, if you didn&#8217;t before, how solid that Hart\/Ersson tandem was for the Flyers last season. It&#8217;s a big reason why they are way ahead of schedule during the first rebuild year. Ersson&#8217;s numbers dipped when he was thrown into a larger role after the Hockey Canada scandal finally crested, and he&#8217;s missed time with injury this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rough patch for the Flyers, who lost 7-3 to the Kings Thursday night, 6-4 in Detroit on Wednesday night, and 4-1 in Minnesota on Saturday. They&#8217;ve lost six of eight and now have 32 points in 33 games. 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