Quoting: StonyOil
buying out Koskinen would be dumb, he has a year left why would you want to extend that dead money?
people forget he dwarfed smiths numbers in 19-20
Yeah, I really don't understand the hate. He's been ok-to-good over the past 2 seasons, aside from the start of this season when Holland screwed up the goalie situation and Koskinen was forced to play 12 games in 24 days - a workload that no goalie can stand up under.
Among the 62 goalies (31 teams x 2) to play at least 1350 minutes at 5v5 over the past 2 years, Koskinen ranks 44th in SV% and 19th in HDSV%. It's interesting to look at the list, actually:
SV% (SA/60)
39. Andersen: .917 (29.65)
40. Demko: .917 (32.11)
41. Georgiev: .917 (31.03)
42. Gibson: .916 (31.07)
43. Rittich: .916 (30.34)
44. Koskinen: .915 (
32.34)
45. Korpisalo: .915 (29.28)
Many fans want to buyout Koskinen and then spend a huge amount of assets to bring in a guy like Gibson or Korpisalo, both of whom faced fewer shots but didn't actually perform any better than Koskinen.
HDSV% (HDSA/60) for select goalies in same range
12. Hellebuyck: .838 (
8.79)
13. Khudobin: .837 (6.38)
16. Varlomov: .835 (7.31)
19. Koskinen: .833 (
8.50)
21. Merzlikins: .832 (6.94)
23. Price: .831 (6.96)
24. Fleury: .829 (7.46)
26. Kuemper: .825 (6.83)
I fully acknowledge that Koskinen had a disappointing season this year, but if you take into account that (1) a good part of that was due to poor management and (2) his 2 year results are still pretty strong, it doesn't make much sense to buy him out this summer.