Since the minute Scott Wedgewood relieved Alexandar Georgiev midway through period one on December 3rd at Buffalo, the Avalanche own the best team save percentage in the league
December 23, 2024
It sits at .935, and the Avs have won 8-of-11 since
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i will say i wish good for georgiev and justus, but holy fuck is the grass greener or what
Damn
A fucking traffic cone would do better than Georgiev.
I feel for Georgie and defended him a lot, but holllllllllly shit I will eat crow on this one.
.935 is baller status.
Sorry guys I just woke up from a 9 month coma. Are they talking about NHL all star Alexander Georgiev???
Even in 22’ the Avs had to have basically the most overwhelming roster in the past decade to win because of its lack of goaltending. Not to say Kuemper was absolutely ass, but he wasn’t Roy either
It’s a really weird feeling knowing that it’s more back to what other teams who’ve won cups are usually doing. That being, having a stellar goalie that will steal multiple games for you when you’re playing poorly. We haven’t had that in fucking ages lol. It still hasn’t fully set in yet
Then you’ve got Wedgie who could blank a team any night too. Arguably a top 3 backup in the league right now the way he’s playing. It’s fucking awesome
Yeah, I honestly put more of the blame for what has happened in net for the Avs over the last season and a half on Sakic and MacFarland than Georgiev and Annunen. As soon as it was confirmed that Francouz career was over, they should have done everything they could to get a back up goalie for Georgiev. Juice was clearly not ready to be a true back up, which is why Georgiev played 63 regular season games last year.
I can get why the season before he played 62 games and they did not make any off season goalie moves. Francouz had just had surgery and the thought/hope was he would be back for the 23/24 season. But as soon as it was confirmed in early November that he would be out for the season. They should have done everything to get some sort of competent back up. This right here is why everything fell apart for Georgiev and the Avs goaltending. It took almost 13 months for them to do something about this. The fact that the thought leading into this season was to just run it back is insane.
Over all, Sakic and now MacFarland have done a pretty damn good job as GM’s. But this is a blunder that honestly could have gotten either of them fired.
We were dead last in the league pretty quick. We are now 14th by points percentage. I would expect we will climb up slowly so all the doom and gloom hopefully can take a back seat.
Annunen’s numbers have been great as well. There’s only one goalie that was involved in all of this still allowing 4 goals a game.
One question is how far could the team have gone in the playoffs both years if Nichushkin didn’t crap the bed and give Georgiev a chance to rise to the occasion like Kuemper.
Up to this year he was ok enough and getting the wins but once the confidence was lost he was done.
All the downvotes that would’ve happened 2 weeks ago if you said something bad about Georgiev lol I have been saying he needs to go and I’m happy everyone is seeing it too, best of luck to him and juice but we have games to win here 😎🏔️
13 comments
i will say i wish good for georgiev and justus, but holy fuck is the grass greener or what
Damn
A fucking traffic cone would do better than Georgiev.
I feel for Georgie and defended him a lot, but holllllllllly shit I will eat crow on this one.
.935 is baller status.
Sorry guys I just woke up from a 9 month coma. Are they talking about NHL all star Alexander Georgiev???
Even in 22’ the Avs had to have basically the most overwhelming roster in the past decade to win because of its lack of goaltending. Not to say Kuemper was absolutely ass, but he wasn’t Roy either
It’s a really weird feeling knowing that it’s more back to what other teams who’ve won cups are usually doing. That being, having a stellar goalie that will steal multiple games for you when you’re playing poorly. We haven’t had that in fucking ages lol. It still hasn’t fully set in yet
Then you’ve got Wedgie who could blank a team any night too. Arguably a top 3 backup in the league right now the way he’s playing. It’s fucking awesome
Yeah, I honestly put more of the blame for what has happened in net for the Avs over the last season and a half on Sakic and MacFarland than Georgiev and Annunen. As soon as it was confirmed that Francouz career was over, they should have done everything they could to get a back up goalie for Georgiev. Juice was clearly not ready to be a true back up, which is why Georgiev played 63 regular season games last year.
I can get why the season before he played 62 games and they did not make any off season goalie moves. Francouz had just had surgery and the thought/hope was he would be back for the 23/24 season. But as soon as it was confirmed in early November that he would be out for the season. They should have done everything to get some sort of competent back up. This right here is why everything fell apart for Georgiev and the Avs goaltending. It took almost 13 months for them to do something about this. The fact that the thought leading into this season was to just run it back is insane.
Over all, Sakic and now MacFarland have done a pretty damn good job as GM’s. But this is a blunder that honestly could have gotten either of them fired.
We were dead last in the league pretty quick. We are now 14th by points percentage. I would expect we will climb up slowly so all the doom and gloom hopefully can take a back seat.
Annunen’s numbers have been great as well. There’s only one goalie that was involved in all of this still allowing 4 goals a game.
One question is how far could the team have gone in the playoffs both years if Nichushkin didn’t crap the bed and give Georgiev a chance to rise to the occasion like Kuemper.
Up to this year he was ok enough and getting the wins but once the confidence was lost he was done.
All the downvotes that would’ve happened 2 weeks ago if you said something bad about Georgiev lol I have been saying he needs to go and I’m happy everyone is seeing it too, best of luck to him and juice but we have games to win here 😎🏔️