Kevin Woodley

They got great goaltending off a pretty high expected save percentage, off a pretty high sort of floor.

And the floor sunk in that round, right?

Like Scott Wedgwood's expected save percentage in the regular season was 894%.

His expected, say, percentage against the Vegas Golden Knights was 871.

Okay, so the environment changed significantly.

And you didn't build the team as good as Wedgwood was.

And honestly, a few more games played, and I think he's in the Vesna conversation.

The numbers say he should have been anyways.

That's how good he was.

But, you know, he outperformed a really goalie-friendly environment.

environment crater to your point i i don't know how many people realize like that vegas took a little dip against colorado in terms of what they were creating five on five and slid like you know like point zero zero one below buffalo but up until then up until that last game actually they were number one in the stanley cup playoffs in high danger expected goals four five on five like they are creating dangerous chances they they may not get a lot of shots but

but they don't settle for low quality.

They create quality.

They're leading the playoffs.

They're top four defensively and not giving it up.

They have the highest discrepancy, like the highest, you know, positive differential in terms of expected goals for five on five high danger versus expected goals.

Again, like they are winning this with how they're playing.

And since the end of the first round, and we talk about goaltending, their guy's been the best guy in the playoffs since the end of the first round.

Wedgwood's getting criticism and he gave up two low danger goals and listen the way Blackwood played last night you certainly could make a case in retrospect it's 2020 it's really easy but that maybe given it was a split most of the year you could have gone back to that a little earlier but Jakob Dobish nobody's criticizing him because he's standing on his head overall.

but he's given up five low danger goals in the playoffs.