Interesting conversation, I'm glad you started a thread on it
@MarkT. My 2 cents:
Terrible time of the season to have a goalie controversy break out but I don't think anyone actually believes Georgiev's play is responsible for him leading the NHL in wins. Many of his 37 wins have come
despite his play rather than because of it.
I've been pushing for Justus to get more starts lately because we've got to see if he can be consistent with a heavier workload. His lack of experience is the only thing holding me back from feeling confident in that. However, my lack of confidence in Georgiev has become stronger than my lack of confidence in Justus' ability to maintain or even improve on what he's done in his few starts. Alexandar has just become too erratic to be the guy in this high-octane system. Check out Georgiev's Low Danger Goals Saved Above Average.
Player | GP | TOI | Shots Against | Saves | Goals Against | SV% | GAA | GSAA | xG Against | HD Shots Against | HD Saves | HD Goals Against | HDSV% | HDGAA | HDGSAA | MD Shots Against | MD Saves | MD Goals Against | MDSV% | MDGAA | MDGSAA | LD Shots Against | LD Saves | LD Goals Against | LDSV% | LDGAA | LDGSAA | Rush Attempts Against | Rebound Attempts Against | Avg. Shot Distance | Avg. Goal Distance |
Justus Annunen | 12 | 553.58 | 297 | 275 | 22 | 0.926 | 2.38 | 4.52 | 24.78 | 79 | 65 | 14 | 0.823 | 1.52 | 1.52 | 70 | 65 | 5 | 0.929 | 0.54 | 1.77 | 138 | 135 | 3 | 0.978 | 0.33 | 1.92 | 16 | 52 | 35.75 | 17.86 |
Alexandar Georgiev | 59 | 2697.45 | 1260 | 1145 | 115 | 0.909 | 2.56 | -2.47 | 108.61 | 325 | 262 | 63 | 0.806 | 1.4 | 0.86 | 265 | 237 | 28 | 0.894 | 0.62 | -2.38 | 594 | 570 | 24 | 0.96 | 0.53 | -2.84 | 78 | 226 | 36.24 | 19.21 |
Ivan Prosvetov | 11 | 400.97 | 201 | 181 | 20 | 0.900 | 2.99 | -2.05 | 17.94 | 54 | 41 | 13 | 0.759 | 1.95 | -2.39 | 58 | 53 | 5 | 0.914 | 0.75 | 0.61 | 82 | 80 | 2 | 0.976 | 0.3 | 0.92 | 11 | 34 | 32.15 | 17.6 |
There's not a metric available by Natural Stat Trick in which Georgiev is a better goaltender than Annunen.
I think I'd throw Georgiev's fragile state of mind to the road and tell Justus that the road to the starters crease begins tomorrow in Dallas. Just start playing Annunen until we lose a game we should have won. Then see how Georgiev responds. If he crumbles due to sharing the net f*** him and bring up Ivan. Georgiev has been given EVERY damned opportunity to turn it around this season and get his shit together and he performs like he did last night. I don't have a lot of confidence that Justus can become the long-term answer to our starter's problem, but I'm beginning to believe that Georgiev is proving more and more each day that he's actually a liability, not a last line of defense.
Honestly, if I was Bednar, I would have been extremely tempted to pull a reverse Patrick Roy and yank Georgiev last night and as he came to the bench tell him loudly and in front of everyone that he's played his last game in an Avalanche uniform.