I think Smith has a better case than Rinne as the third finalist. Save percentage difference is huge between the two.
No, he doesn't. It's not a damn stat-trophy. There's the Roger Crozier Award for that. Rinne is a significantly better goaltender than Smith, which is exactly what the Vezina is for.
Rinne's a great goalie and Nashville's a good team, they don't need to come up with dumb stuff like this to make themselves sound better. Goalie assists? Is there anything more pointless? 99% of them come from the goalie stopping the puck behind the net before a rush up ice.
No, he doesn't. It's not a damn stat-trophy. There's the Roger Crozier Award for that. Rinne is a significantly better goaltender than Smith, which is exactly what the Vezina is for.
It's a regular season performance based trophy. Not a, I would pick you first in a pickup game- trophy. Save % is a very good indicator of performance over the number of games a starting goalie plays in a season. I don't think Smith is a better goalie than Rinne, but he is having the better season.
Save % is a very good indicator of performance over the number of games a starting goalie plays in a season. I don't think Smith is a better goalie than Rinne, but he is having the better season.
I obviously disagree. Rinne has been the better goalie this season, as well. Smith has a better fantasy-hockey season.
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Rinne deserves the Vezina
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Rinne's a great goalie and Nashville's a good team, they don't need to come up with dumb stuff like this to make themselves sound better. Goalie assists? Is there anything more pointless? 99% of them come from the goalie stopping the puck behind the net before a rush up ice.
No, actually on 4 of the 5 assists, Rinne actually made a pass up ice in order to record the assist. There was one instance where he made a save and the defenseman sprung a forward on a breakaway off the rebound.
Rinne has developed his puck handling skills since teaming up with Dan Ellis a few seasons back and the Nashville goaltenders now help out the defense by beating the first forechecker with a pass on a routine basis now.
A statistical anomaly, but nonetheless being just the 2nd person in league history to do something is newsworthy...
No, actually on 4 of the 5 assists, Rinne actually made a pass up ice in order to record the assist. There was one instance where he made a save and the defenseman sprung a forward on a breakaway off the rebound.
Rinne has developed his puck handling skills since teaming up with Dan Ellis a few seasons back and the Nashville goaltenders now help out the defense by beating the first forechecker with a pass on a routine basis now.
A statistical anomaly, but nonetheless being just the 2nd person in league history to do something is newsworthy...
It says he's the second goalie since the 93-94 season to do this. I dont know how many goalies have done it before that but I do know Barasso won the most games in 92-93 and had the most assists so there's atleast 3, probably more.
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I obviously disagree. Rinne has been the better goalie this season, as well. Smith has a better fantasy-hockey season.
Rinne has been awesome this year, but Smith has had a fantastic season.. I think it's quite possible that Smith will be a finalist for the award even though it could clearly be Rinne aswell.
- who gives a **** about goalies' assists
- Rinne had a fine season but there were at least two who had better
- "Rinne : Lundqvist = Lundqvist : Elliot as far as workload is concerned" LOL no way
- Lundqvist and Quick locks for Vezina finalists, not sure about Smith; Rinne doesn't deserve any serious Vezina consideration
Explain to me why Rinne's season was significantly better than that of Kari Lehtonen.
Fwiw. I think as long as a goalie plays something like 63-65 games he shouldn't be penalized for lack of workload.
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