Lundqvist is getting old

[chuckd3534]

He might be rounding into form...LOL.


Lundqvist has won five straight games and has a GAA of 1.56 in that time with a save percentage of .939.

 

[panzerporter]

Hank has given up bad angle goals since he started here, opponents would throw the puck at the goal from all angles because they knew Hank often failed to be in the fundamentally correct position to make a save. Hank still ranks in the bottom third among goaltenders regarding GAA and save% but those numbers are improving. The second goal he allowed last night was brutal, thankfully Klein got the clutch goal to get the OT win. Usually as a player's physical ability starts declining with age his mental abilities sharpen to compensate, this doesn't seem to be the case for Hank as a significant number of the goals he's allowed this year should have been saved and came as the result of Hank not hugging the post or closing the 5 hole, simple mental errors. I agree Fatso benefited from great defensive personnel but what made Marty so tough was that he was never out of position so he rarely gave up the soft goal.

I agree the defense adds to Hank's woes, they need a crease clearer or two in the lineup. If Boyle had 15-20 points I'd have no problem with his inept play defensively but that's beginning to look like where his season total might end up. I think there are better options than Boyle or the equally soft Hunwick in the AHL.

 

[chuckd3534]

No, posts like yours are what is getting old. You're constant everything is alright crap is getting old. I told you this team sucked and it still does. They are losing to one of the worst teams in hockey and they have been about .500 all season. Yet, you still think all is good. And as usual, you ignore a total body of work in a season and bring up one week. Lundqvist has been below average pretty much all season.

Thought I'd bump this thread from pretty much exactly a year ago when the same exact things were said as are being said today.

Hank is getting old. The everything is alright crap is getting old. I told you this team sucked and it still does.

Sound familiar...LOL...at least this year there is no Hank is getting old part added to the we suck posts....

Look...maybe we do not turn it around this season and we end up sucking all year long and don't even make the playoffs...anything is possible...BUT what I do know is this is the same theme every year on these boards. So far we have made the posters eat their doubting words. Maybe we don't this year, but I know I'm not jumping ship after 30 games in mid December.

We have been through this before...let's hope we bounce back as usual. We'll see.

 

[kreidertime]

Lundqvist is old. He no longer can handle a huge workload like he used to. He also isn't great on breakaways any longer. He has stretches where he plays insane but he's not the goalie he was 5-6 years ago where he stopped almost every breakaway. He has games now where he lets up 4-5 goals when the defense breaks down. Not sure why you're a typical Chuck moron trying to argue that a 33 year old goalie isn't getting old and bring up some old post. The number next to his birth certificate doesn't lie. Perhaps you're just trying to cover up the fact your go for it all now strategy was moronic. Old goalies still have hot stretches. They can't carry teams like they used to. Lundqvist has been getting lit up lately because he isn't 25 covering up a season of his teams stupidity.

 

[chuckd3534]

Not going to get into a back and forth with you on this dump. Again FACTS speak for themselves.

You have started we suck threads YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR...and this thread from just about exactly a year ago is no different.

DUMP QUOTE from last December...I told you this team sucked and it still does.

Yet we ended up winning the Pres trophy and made the ECF AGAIN.

So enough with your nonsense of the sky is falling EVERY SINGLE SEASON when we struggle in the first 30-40 games or so. It is old now and utter nonsense.

Now at some point you will be right, maybe that year will be this year, but that doesn't change the point that you whine and cry about the team every year at this time of the season...so enough already.

 

[chuckd3534]

As for Hank...yeah just like I said in this nonsense thread last year sure he is getting older. I will quote my exact words from last year and they still hold true one year later.

My exact words from December 2014:


Now if your point is at 32 we need to start looking for the goalie after Hank in 3 years or so...of course. That's just logical no one will argue with you there. He is on the backside of his career playing years left wise. I think we'd all agree on that. He doesn't have 5/6 years left, he has maybe 3 years left at a very high level.

But I disagree that he isn't elite anymore. I disagree that he isn't a top 3 goalie anymore. He clearly is IMO, and should be there for a few more years.

The time is now though. We need to win a cup I'd say within the next 2 seasons, so Sather should be focused on that.

 

[kreidertime]

When you find a way to explain to the board that a 33 year old player is still young in the NHL, let us know moron.

 

[chuckd3534]

When you explain to the board how you can type but can't read apparently, let us know moron. Because I actually wrote the EXACT OPPOSITE of what you just wrote...LOL.

 

[cagedlion]

All I will say, if any goalie had to face 30 to 45 shots a night..........
they'd get old real fast!

 

[cagedlion]

He's 33 and methinks there a lot left in the tank for Hank!

My God.......there used to be a goalie named Gump Worsley....
he played in the Stanley Cup finals at the ages 36, 37, 39 and 40
for the Montreal Canadians after being traded from the New York
Rangers. Many Ranger fans here would have lynched the Ranger
management back in the '60s. Talk about a losing organization!

This will make you laugh: Gump after facing over 50 SOG at MSG
for a bad Ranger team, a reporter asked him, "Which team gives
you the most trouble?" Gump replied without missing a beat,
"The New York Rangers". LOL