Markus Näslund was voted as the the one who got away, who was the most inconsistent penguin of all time?
What I mean by most inconsistent: a player that has a great year, then 2 bad years. Then maybe a mediocre year, followed by a good year. Kinda all over the place lmao
by JKray5_Reddit
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Gotta go with Matt Murray here. The guy had two absolutely incredible cup runs. We don’t win back-to-back cups without him. The season after the second cup run he was sometimes down right awful. Had a rebound season and then was really poor again. I love Murray for what he did for this franchise, but man, he’s a recent example of inconsistency.
Tyler Kennedy
Tristian Jarry. He’s either lights out or not there at all. Especially after the All-Star break. Also, he gets hurt a lot and has never shown anything in the playoffs.
Aleksey Morozov
Playoffs MAF
Matt Murray. His peaks were probably the best of any Pens goalie ever, look at his finals numbers. They are legitimately up there as one of the best goalies ever in the finals. Then you factor in his body simply not being able to handle the rigors of an NHL schedule after that point. A huge bummer about what could have been.
Edit: an aside, the Murray glove hand thing was always stupid. He let in, roughly, league average in terms of goals conceded glove side. He was actually better than MAF at that in the back to back cup years. The way he moved just made it look worse since he always looked a step slow even when he made saves.
Marc Andre Fleury
Aleksey Morozov would spend one day making Martin Brodeur look average and the next day failing to get shots on net when wide open. It is him.
Jarry. Too bad the team wasted some of Crosby’s prime years depending on a mid goalie.
Fleury. I can’t imagine anyone comes close to his lack of consistency.
There were seasons where he was our MVP, but then playoffs come and he turns into swiss cheese.
Or he would make 5 highlight reel saves in a row and then give up a flopper on the next shot.
Alexei Morozov. Dude would routinely beat Brodeur and just fall flat against seemingly everyone else.
Jarry. Led the NHL in shutouts for most of last year and will play lights out against Vezina winners, but falls apart against everyone else
With everyone torn on the goalie end, maybe it has to be Morozov?
I’d also throw a vote out for Geno. When he’s on, look out, but man, he can go weeks looking like a AAA’er could out skate him.
Is it sad that we have 3 goalies from the last decade fighting for this spot?
I have a hard time calling flower both the most overrated player and the best goalie.
Really?
Goalies are inherently inconsistent with an exception for the likes of Roy, Brodeur, and Hasek. So MAF, Murray, and Jarry are all contenders.
I’d argue Malkin as most inconsistent on a game to game basis. Sure, he puts up numbers every year, but you never know what Geno you’re getting each game. Will he lazily float around? Get mad and score 5 points? Get mad and take 10 PIMS? No idea until the puck drops.
Evan Rodrigues, when he was covering for Crosby and Malkin, he was a god, when they came back he didn’t score or do anything.
I don’t see how the answer is anyone but Fleury or Barrasso, honestly.
At Flower’s best he was able to be the best goalie in the world on any given night, but was capable of looking like an ECHL callup in any given game too. It’s the entire reason he was simultaneously voted as our best goalie and most overrated player at the same time. From his best to worst GSAA seasons you have a span of 10.6 to -10.8 GSAA, a gap of 21.4 GSAA.
Barrasso was similar, with higher highs but was more consistently low. Tommy had a high of 30.9 GSAA and a low of -10.8 for a gap of 41.7 GSAA between his best and worst.
Murray was consistently excellent until he fell off hard with injuries and personal issues. He’s been consistently underwhelming since. Span of 14.7 to -11.6 GSAA, but his career is pretty much just a clean drop following everything that happened with him so I have a hard time calling it “inconsistent”.
Jarry is about to overtake Flower in GSAA within 1/3 of Fleury’s games played with Pittsburgh, but has a span of 21.1 to -2.7, higher highs and higher lows than Flower.
Stunned that nobody has said Kovalev.
Tough call between Jarry and Murray.