 RDOilerfan
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Registered: January 2016
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| PlusOne wrote on Tue, 18 December 2018 11:41 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Tue, 18 December 2018 12:20 |
Personally, I would have played Koskinen against the Blues, get the win, then play Talbot against the Lightning. The chances of you beating Tampa aren't that great anyway, why waste Koskinen.
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Talbot needs to play some games but your idea is not a good way to handle it from a coaching/team psychology perspective.
If a coach is telling the team they can match up against anyone and are a playoff team how does it look if you put in your current number 2 as "The chances of you beating Tampa aren't that great anyway"
Do you think that motivates the team to be the giant slayer? How do you walk into the room pregame and tell them to put in a top effort when you are playing your goalies in this way?
I have always believed that it should be a mix of traditional back to back, give the starter a rest against the weaker team, strategy was best.
As the season goes on you play the top goalie, hot hand in must win games, even if that means 15 in a row to end the year to make the playoffs.
The last thing this team needs is any knock on its confidence and playing Talbot against one of the best teams in the league is a clear white towel and the players, including Talbot, would see that.
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Koskinen at home is 7-0, 3 shut outs, a goals against under 1 and a save percentage of .972. It's not like Koskinen was brutal last game either. But regardless. If the coach says Koskinen is going to play their first home game back, what player is going to question that decision for a second given the numbers. Players know what the numbers are. As much as Talbot is a competitor and wants to play, I don't think he can even argue the numbers. Koskinen has unheard of numbers at home.
I would bet that if the numbers were flipped and Talbot had the insane numbers at home, not one person would be questioning if he should start tonight. Yet because it's not Talbot, it doesn't apply?
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