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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 14 at 3:44 p.m.
Thread: Moving up
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 12 at 3:32 p.m.
Thread: Moving up
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 12 at 2:39 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 12 at 12:10 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 12 at 10:28 a.m.
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Ujeje</b></div><div>Okay this wasn't as strong season by Saros as i.e 4 previous seasons, that's right, yet he was still voted 7th best goalie in a player/staff survey during a down year. Woll didn't get a single vote btw.

But let's put it this way, Woll has played 36 games in regular season during his whole NHL career with 2,76 GAA and .912%. Saros has played 350 games with 2,63 GAA and .917%. And one could say that the Leafs have been the better team, Preds have barely been playoff team. Saros has been the bonafide starter for the last 3 seasons and 1B for 2 seasons before that where they splitted starts with Rinne. It's a different story to be G2 and play weaker opponents every now and then, compared to be the cornerstone of the team having over 60 starts/season. If it's just as simple as looking sv% you should just acquire Stolarz, he had .925% which was the highest of the goalies who played over 30% of their team games.

Woll might become better than Saros, but there is not a single GM who would pick Woll before Saros to be their starter next season if their goal is to win the cup, and that's simply because right now Saros is the better goalie and more proven. Saros is arguably top 5-7 goalie, Woll is not, at least yet. And this is not any anti-Leafs bias, it's just straight facts.</div></div>

No GM wants a guy that was good years ago. Hockey is about “what have you done for me lately”.. Saros clearly regressed last season so how is that a positive sign? Treliving would take a healthy Woll over Saros. He doesn’t like small goalies. Small goalies are too easy to beat nowadays. Leafs won’t have any interest in Saros.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 11 at 10:39 p.m.
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Caniac2000</b></div><div>Woll better than Saros... my guy, Woll was bang average too. Saros was bad the first half of the year, but reverted to Vezina nominee second half of the year. He'd easily be the best goalie in Leafs history</div></div>

actually, no Saros didn't "revert back to Vezina nominee" the second half of the year.

Saros save percentage by month:
October - .915%
November - .880%
December - .911%
January - .906%
February - .926%
March - .905%
April - .904%

League average was .903% this season and Saros finished with an overall save percentage of .906% ... so he had one month where you could say he was elite, how is the rest of that "Vezina nominee"? Not to mention that in the playoff he only had a .900% and Nashville finished the round with something like the 3rd fewest shots per game given up in league history. So he faces less shots in front of a team that was clearly good defensively and still has a below league average save percentage and yet you say he'd be the best in Leafs history?

Small playoff sample size but:
Woll - 56 shots against, .964% and clearly stole the games he played in
Saros - 108 shots against, .900sv% and didn't steal any games


&amp; for the record, here's Woll's month to month stats behind a far worse defensive team:
October - .942%
November - .903%
December - .912%
January - didn't play
February - .938%
March - .884%
April - .884%

Keep in mind his stats dropped when he came back from a serious injury. Despite Woll's last 2 months of poor play because of the injury, he still finished with a higher save percentage than Saros.

So how (besides your own anti-Leafs bias) is Saros better than Woll?