Glad to see we have come full circle in another subject.
Bryz lovers in denial that their man majorly sucked last year, and would rather pass off the critics as haters.
"Bryz haters" simply stating they don't mind the guy as long as he plays well. Which in other than a month and handful of weeks last year; he played pretty damn subpar.
Glad to see we have come full circle in another subject.
Bryz lovers in denial that their man majorly sucked last year, and would rather pass off the critics as haters.
"Bryz haters" simply stating they don't mind the guy as long as he plays well. Which in other than a month and handful of weeks last year; he played pretty damn subpar.
Just when I was starting to really enjoy the summer ...
Glad to see we have come full circle in another subject.
Bryz lovers in denial that their man majorly sucked last year, and would rather pass off the critics as haters.
"Bryz haters" simply stating they don't mind the guy as long as he plays well. Which in other than a month and handful of weeks last year; he played pretty damn subpar.
were kickin the skeleton of this horse at this point but its not all about one player. he could've been better in the beginning but the team sucked. thats the point. we sucked defensively. sucked. we needed pronger bad. and stop pretending like you love him but just hate his performance. look at your avatar. out of all the avatars you'd have to heavily dislike the dude to have that picture represent you on here. I do think things will be different as a whole this year. there's were a lot of changes last summer. a year of adjustment was not too much to ask at least for me. i assumed id be that way, and that was before pronger went down. now we know what were dealing with and its time to produce and that goes for everybody not just the goalies. bob had trouble with this team in front too last year, remember?
I did with the information about his camp in Russia. And I am sorry I did.
Let's burry it back on the 4th page...
Yeah, back to that.
That's a great community move, and will be an awesome experience for those kids. Who knows, maybe a future Russian goaltending legend will be inspired to reach his full potential because of the camp.
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were kickin the skeleton of this horse at this point but its not all about one player. he could've been better in the beginning but the team sucked. thats the point. we sucked defensively. sucked. we needed pronger bad. and stop pretending like you love him but just hate his performance. look at your avatar. out of all the avatars you'd have to heavily dislike the dude to have that picture represent you on here. I do think things will be different as a whole this year. there's were a lot of changes last summer. a year of adjustment was not too much to ask at least for me. i assumed id be that way, and that was before pronger went down. now we know what were dealing with and its time to produce and that goes for everybody not just the goalies. bob had trouble with this team in front too last year, remember?
Bob is also a great deal younger and didn't have nearly the amount of chances Bryz did.
That's a great community move, and will be an awesome experience for those kids. Who knows, maybe a future Russian goaltending legend will be inspired to reach his full potential because of the camp.
Thank you! That was the purpose of original posting. Also, NHL draftee Vasilevskiy is in the camp as a mentor, but he also stated that he welcomes Bryz's mentorship.
Curious, for all those continuously saying "he sucked for half the year last year so he sucks" - question for you. Do you not agree that it was "predictable" that Bryz would have had a rough first year? New team, new system, media pressure, HBO, Flyer fans, Pronger injury, etc, etc. It was a rough year - he said as much. In the second half of the season his numbers are outstanding. Why is it so "crazy" to think his entire second year will be more like his second half of last year rather than his first?
I keep hearing, he makes too much. OK lets look at the top cap hit goalies over the past three seasons, seems like reasonable money to me.
Player Cap Hit GAA SP
Henrik Lundquist $6.88 2.22 0.924
Pekka Rinne $7.00 2.34 0.922
Ryan Miller $6.25 2.44 0.92
Cam Ward $6.30 2.66 0.918
Carey Price $6.50 2.48 0.918
Ilya Bryzgalov $5.66 2.41 0.918
Mikka Kiprusoff $5.83 2.43 0.916
Niklas Backstrom $6.00 2.62 0.912
I bet Bryz is at or above .918 next year. I have no problem with Bryz.
P.S. This is year 2 of 9 coming up. Might as well be optimistic, he isn't going anywhere. If you are writing him off, then might as well start looking at the 2020 draft.
Curious, for all those continuously saying "he sucked for half the year last year so he sucks" - question for you. Do you not agree that it was "predictable" that Bryz would have had a rough first year? New team, new system, media pressure, HBO, Flyer fans, Pronger injury, etc, etc. It was a rough year - he said as much. In the second half of the season his numbers are outstanding. Why is it so "crazy" to think his entire second year will be more like his second half of last year rather than his first?
I keep hearing, he makes too much. OK lets look at the top cap hit goalies over the past three seasons, seems like reasonable money to me.
Player Cap Hit GAA SP
Henrik Lundquist $6.88 2.22 0.924
Pekka Rinne $7.00 2.34 0.922
Ryan Miller $6.25 2.44 0.92
Cam Ward $6.30 2.66 0.918
Carey Price $6.50 2.48 0.918
Ilya Bryzgalov $5.66 2.41 0.918
Mikka Kiprusoff $5.83 2.43 0.916
Niklas Backstrom $6.00 2.62 0.912
I bet Bryz is at or above .918 next year. I have no problem with Bryz.
P.S. This is year 2 of 9 coming up. Might as well be optimistic, he isn't going anywhere. If you are writing him off, then might as well start looking at the 2020 draft.
There's also plenty of examples the other way.
Bryzgalov - .915 career sv%, $5.67M
Niemi - .915 career sv%, $3.8M
Vokoun - .917 career sv%, $2M
Anderson - .913 career sv%, $3.17M
Lehtonen - .914 career sv%, $3.55M
Nabokov - .912 career sv%, $2.75M
ummm lots of players join new teams and have stellar seasons..
how do you explain that ???
Such as? Almost every big name big money UFA signing who switched teams had a significantly down year the next year. Some come back, some don't. The reasons are simple; pressure, new coach, new teammates, new city, life changes (kids in new school, moving and buying a house, new friends, blah, blah)
2006: Zdeno Chara is the big signing, has his worst statistical year ever.
2007: Scott Gomez, Chris Drury, Ryan Smyth and Daniel Briere are the big signings. (All have down years, Gomez and Drury did not recover)
2008: Brian Campbell, Cristobal Huet, Wade Redden, Mike Commodore, Sean Avery, Marian Hossa, Mats Sundin are big name signings. Marian Hossa is the only one to have a very good year.
2009: Marian Hossa, Marian Gaborik, Martin Havlat, Mike Cammalleri, Brian Gionta are big name signings. Honestly, most have excellent years.
2010:Ilya Kovalchuk, Sergei Gonchar, Zbynek Michalek, Paul Marti, Dan Hamhuis, Antti Niemi are big name signings. NONE have good years. Kovalchuk and Gonchar have rebounded in year 2 of their deals
2011: Brad Richards, Eric Cole, Ilya Bryzgalov, Tomas Vokoun, Ville Leino, Tomas Kaberle. All except Eric Cole have down years. I suspect Richards, Leino ad Bryz will rebound in 2012.
Chesnokov of Puck Daddy intervievs Bryzgalov, good stuff and well worth a read.
Asked about having what he described as his worst season:
""I would like to clarify — the most "mixed" season. I did have stretches where I had shutouts, when I was showing the stats like in Phoenix, when everyone praised me. Philadelphia made it to the second round of the Stanley Cup… You can find the positives. But my personal rating is that I am not happy with the season.
"I would like to thank fans who fairly criticized me. I got to know the Philadelphia media. This is an invaluable experience that will certainly help me. But I cannot say that I have 'sport rage' now and the next season I will show who the real Bryzgalov is! I set certain goals for myself and I will work to reach them. Otherwise you can do so much bad if you're filled with emotions.""
That makes it sound like he knows what to expect from the media and fans in Philly this coming year. Good. Hopefully he can keep everything zen and just focus on stopping pucks.
