Goaltenders: Who's up and who's down?

by James Mirtle on Dec 16, 2008 3:47 PM CST Comment 4 comments

Following up on the post on the most improved forwards this season, here's a look at which goaltending have improved their save percentages the most through the first one-third of the season:

			2007-08		2008-09
	Name	Team	GP	SV%	GP	SV%	Diff
1	Dwayne Roloson	EDM	43	0.901	13	0.924	0.023
2	Mike Smith	TAM	34	0.901	22	0.924	0.023
3	Mikael Tellqvist	PHO	22	0.908	7	0.930	0.022
4	Tim Thomas	BOS	57	0.921	18	0.938	0.017
5	Brent Johnson	WAS	19	0.908	14	0.922	0.014
6	Alex Auld	OTT	32	0.907	20	0.920	0.013
7	Chris Mason	STL	51	0.898	11	0.910	0.012
8	Roberto Luongo	VAN	73	0.917	19	0.928	0.011
9	Nikolai Khabibulin	CHI	50	0.909	14	0.919	0.010
10	Cam Ward	CAR	69	0.904	19	0.912	0.008

On the flip side, here's a look at the biggest disappointments:

			2007-08		2008-09
	Name	Team	GP	SV%	GP	SV%	Diff
1	Pascal Leclaire	COB	54	0.919	11	0.876	-0.043
2	Chris Osgood	DET	43	0.914	18	0.876	-0.038
3	Marty Turco	DAL	62	0.909	26	0.881	-0.028
4	Erik Ersberg	LOS	14	0.927	16	0.903	-0.024
5	Fredrik Norrena	COB	37	0.896	5	0.872	-0.024
6	Manny Legace	STL	66	0.911	16	0.889	-0.022
7	Jose Theodore	WAS	53	0.910	16	0.888	-0.022
8	Dan Ellis	NAS	44	0.924	21	0.903	-0.021
9	Ty Conklin	DET	33	0.923	12	0.902	-0.021
10	Mathieu Garon	EDM	47	0.913	10	0.894	-0.019

Good for Roloson, who hasn't gotten a lot of pub outside of Edmonton for his strong recent play. I heard him say the other night that he'd like to pull a Chelios and keep on playing for a few more years, which would be pretty impressive.

It's no secret Leclaire, Osgood and Turco have all really struggled so far.

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I know I'm proabaly being overly critical...

but I really think that Legace’s fall is a major reason the Blues are in the situation they are in, certainly in the top three reasons…he hasn’t been as bad as Leclaire, but he’s not that far off where Turco and Osgood are.

Supposedly, Manny wanted a contract extension from the Blues, and they turned him down, because, with his bum knee, they wanted to see what was going on, plus they have Mason this year and next and Bishop and Allen coming up…I have read at least a couple of places where this has really gotten in his head and it seems to have affected his performance…that’s too bad, because over the past two seasons, Manny has single handledly kept the Blues in many games they would not have been competitive…I’d hate to see him leave on a sour note.

by tbell61 on Dec 16, 2008 4:01 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Osgood/Conklin... Jimmy Howard

For all the talk out of camp about how they would like more seasoning for Howard at Grand Rapids, Osgood and Conklin aren’t exactly building brick walls back there. When are the Wings finally going to give this kid a shot? Shoot, even the other kid in GR, Larsson would be worth a look. It cant be worse than the sub .900 these guys are putting up. Osgood is fighting the puck terribly right now.

by john ogrodnick on Dec 17, 2008 7:28 AM CST reply actions 0 recs