Post Game Thread: Montreal Canadiens at Tampa Bay Lightning - 28 Dec 2019

A couple of things here mate.

  1. At no point did I argue that his .900 season was good. The premise that you are arguing for is only valid should it be hinged upon this assumption, unfortunately it does not. I am suggesting that last season was far more successful than it appears and that a poor first 12 games, especially the final 5 games of that poor start, appears to suggest that his season was far worse than it was. I am also arguing that this season he's been wildly inconsistent but that so far, the trends are almost identical to that of last season.

  2. "You're going to keep thinking along your sample sizes and that's fine" is a disingenuous manner in which to frame my argument. What I am conveying to you is that a 54 game sample size within a season is much more significant to suggest the form of a player when contextualized within a season than to say he was "VERY VERY BAD" over the last 145 games when we are by no means arguing that more than half of that 145 chunk he did play poorly but that most of the games within that chunk that he played poorly in come from a season where he performed abysmally.

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