How Good Are the Penguins’ Goalies?
As hockey fans, we all know how important goaltending can be. Quality play between the pipes can steal wins that a team might not otherwise deserve. The opposite also holds true. Nothing drains the life from a club quicker than porous play in goal.
Fair to say we’ve experienced our fair share of both ends of the netminding spectrum in recent years.
What brought this on? I was reading an article on Pensburgh last week that stated the Penguins’ goaltending inputs have been good this season.
How good, I wondered?
Going strictly by the results and my own admittedly untrained eye, darn good I’d say. During our 14-3-3 run since Christmas, Stuart Skinner and Arturs Silovs have combined to post a .905 save percentage, the eighth-best mark in the league over that stretch.
During a string of eight starts beginning with a 5-1 victory over the ‘Canes on December 30 and culminating in the 3-2 win over the Canucks on January 25, Skinner was 7-1 to go with an extraordinary .934 save percentage (SV%) and a microscopic 1.63 goals against average (GAA).
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