With a chance to advance to Round 2, the Canucks are expecting to see the best the Blues have to offer in Game 6. (imacSportsnet)
has given St. Louis goaltending it can win with since then. Even with the bad goal Allen allowed to Jake Virtanen in the Blues’ 4-3 loss in Game 5, his statistical superiority to Binnington is stark.
These are small samples, of course, but follow a trend from the regular season when Binnington regressed from last year’s miraculous campaign and saw his save rate fall to .912 from .927, which is what Allen posted in a bounceback season. The lasting memory from the Calgary Flames’ season, which ended with an embarrassing 7-3 loss Thursday to the Dallas Stars, was coach Geoff Ward haplessly bungling his goaltending. With the score 3-3 in an elimination game, Ward replaced in-form starter Cam Talbot with David Rittich, who was colder than Antarctica and promptly allowed three goals on nine shots to sink the Flames. Talbot then finished the debacle.
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