I had a quick look - there are 45(!) goalies who have recorded a .000 save percentage in a game. Most of those, though, are guys who faced two or three shots and got pulled or injured. For a goalie who faced 16+ shots (the number Vasilevskiy faced), the worst is .500 by Jeff Hackett, who let in 8 goals on 16 shots in 1991. Also notable is Anti Raanta, who played a full game letting in 8 goals on 14 shots for an 0.429.
Damn, thanks for applying your stats-fu to that. I knew it wasn’t good, but that puts some perspective on that.
The Stars pull 2-1 ahead of the Avs tonight in what might as well have been a 90s game for how defensive it was. Saturday should be an interesting game.
The Caps go up 2-0 against the Habs in another tight game. It will probably go in 5, but I’m still hoping for that one to take 7 games. Washington will probably win, but I honestly have no idea.
LA beats the Oilers to a bit of a pulp, but through quite a bit of luck. Considering how the first game of that series went, I’m saying it will probably go in six games, but I wouldn’t put money on who would win, even though I think it’s LA this time.
I went to the casino to play a little poker (that didn’t go well - I hit an ace high flush on the river by the villain hit a full house on the same card) and watch the Leafs-Senators game. Yay Sens!
The guy to my immediate left would not stop talking about sports betting. He claimed that he was in fact a professional sports better, than he made his money at it and was retired from whatever he’d done before. I was very skeptical such a brilliant sports better would be playing low stakes poker but whatever. Anyway, he said he had a great bet going with MGM where if the Leafs-Sens game was tied 3-3 after regulation he’s get 201-1 odds on his bet.
I told him I hoped he’d win - his $50 would be $10050! He said no, it’d be over eleven thousand. That’s not 201-1, butt whatever.
After a little while I started thinking, huh, 201-1? That seems generous. I don’t bet in sports - ever - but if I’d seen those odds I’d plunk a few bucks on that. A 3-3 tie after regulation isn’t that unusual, surely? Whatever.
So anyway the game unfolds as it did, and sure enough it starts looking like his bet might happen. He promises drinks to everyone at the table if it does. And then it’s 3-3, and the clock ticks down, and he won!
So we all congratulate him and then he starts complaining that BetMGM isn’t paying him. (He is constantly looking at his phone and delaying the card game.) Then he starts complaining it says he lost. How can he have lost, damn BetMGM ,blah blah blah. So he shows me his phone and says “I won, right?”
I look at his bet. Even I can immediately see he lost. He didn’t bet the game would be 3-3 after the third period. He bet that the score OF THE THIRD PERIOD ITSELF would be 3-3, that each team would score 3 goals in the third period. So now the 201-1 odds make sense to me.
Well, he is ranting that MGM ripped him off. “Of course I meant 3-3 after regulation! What idiot would bet they’d score six goals in one period?”
Says a guy at the other end of the table, “You.”
The 'professional sports better."
That was a terrible meltdown by the Winnipeg Jets and Connor Hellebuyck pulled again.
Then again, this first round is turning out a lot more interesting than I thought. Canes up early now against the Devils. I thought the Canes would sweep this one, most likely it’s over in 5 games
Yes, a much more interesting first round then I had anticipated. I haven’t been watching Canes-Devils, but in the more lopsided series I have been paying attention to (Sens-Leafs, Habs-Caps) the games have still been competitive. And now every series in the west is a best of 3!
That was kind of amazing. I also noticed that every series in the East went 3-1 today, and not always in the favor of the highest seed. An exciting first round, for sure.
Dallas put Colorado on the bubble with a resounding 6-2 win tonight, with players going after each other in the closing minutes. Game 6 seems to be one to watch.
The Stars looked like their old selves last night. If the Stars win the series I like their chances in the later rounds. Beating the AVS, without Heiskanen or Robertson, would be a huge injection of confidence for the team. And then to go on and get Heiskanen back, and hopefully Robertson, could be substantial.
I’m still not exactly clear on what Robertsons’ injury is, but he is still listed as week to week, AFAIK. I’m going to guess that Heiskanen will take the pre-game skate for game 6 but won’t play. If it goes to game 7, he probably would play, I hope.
Still a long way to go, but my God it would be funny if the Leafs blew a 3-0 series lead in the first round. As one person wrote, “if you’re a hockey fan or you just appreciate the narrative of sports history, you have to be rooting for Ottawa.”
The Toronto Maple Leafs have had 14 chances to get to the second round since 2018, and have only done it once. So yeah, the long-suffering fans are being tortured again.
Heheh, nah. I know one Toronto fan who takes their repeated failures personally. Plus, similar to Connor McDavid, I just really dislike Brady Tkachuck’s face. So I’m hoping the Leafs make it to the finals, and lose to the Stars in seven.
And well, NJ is out, and Edmonton put LA on the bubble tonight. As always, the playoffs are interesting.
I’m sure there are many thousands of such fans. Which is why I’m now an ex fan. Now I just check in once in a while to see when the Leafs are gonna be knocked out of the playoffs. Again. And I take great delight in those years when they don’t make the playoffs at all! As a fan I’ve just had too many terrible disappointments. The last time those useless dolts won the Stanley cup there were just 6 teams in the NHL.
I did not watch the Leafs/ Sens last night however, when I saw the score I did have a good chuckle.
Ha! Sens 4, Leafs 0. And it was a home game for the Leafs, so lots of disgruntled Leafs fans once again, some of whom probably went to great lengths to get playoff tickets. So the Leafs, leading in the series, got lazy again. This is the sort of bullshit I no longer have patience for.
As of now, regardless of who comes out of Stars/Avalanche, I think both teams can easily beat whoever comes out of Blues/Jets.
Gotta hand it to the St Louis Blues. That was an incredible game. I had the Jets winning this series easily.
I’m amazed how Hellebuyck turns to crap as soon as the playoffs start. Media has given him the benefit of the doubt for a few years now and that has to come to an end after another early exit, doesn’t it?
He is often called the best goalie in the league, or world, but it has to be qualified with ‘regular season’ at this point.
So the Leafs have staggered into Round 2. Any predictions how they’ll do against the Panthers? I really have no idea – I no longer keep up with this stuff very much, but the Panthers came out of Round 1 in five games. If I had to take a wild guess, the Leafs are out in Round 2.
In Toronto people are saying the Leafs have overcome their demons. Not even close. I think that I just heard that they are 0-7 in playoff series against Florida. The Panthers are built for the playoffs and the Leafs are on the 7th iteration of the same group that always fails.
Unless the Leafs can find something inside them that they have not shown in the last several years, the result will be the same.
While it may not be a 4 game sweep, I don’t see the Leafs winning more than a game against the Panthers.
Let’s see, the Blues made a coaching change (Bruins were stupid to fire Montgomery) and got hot late in the season. We’ve seen this movie before. Jets have more talent, but Hellebuyck seems lost out there.
Rantanen just had the first game 7, third period hat trick in NHL history. He carried the team with his refusal to loose. Now the Stars look forward to getting Heiskanen and Robertson back