Samuel Montembeault’s two consecutive starts last week propelled him into the group of 42 eligible goalkeepers in our top 30, those with a minimum of 480 minutes played. Better still, “Monty” is eighth, a personal best. Cheer!
His successes should earn him a little more playing time and a “legitimate” leaderboard every Tuesday The newspaper. Whether she will maintain her 5-2-1/.924/2.48 pace remains to be seen. Six starts of 0.900 out of eight is a 75% consistency rating. Excellent !
Montembeault is confident and it showed with his crucial saves in recent 3-1 and 3-2 victories in Columbus and Chicago. If we dig a little deeper, many of the micro-stats from him at Clear Sight Analytics (CSA) speak volumes and especially his total of 6.53 goals conceded (9th), or nearly one per game.
A record for Allen
On Jake Allen’s side (32Andtimes are more difficult. He has conceded 19 goals in his last four outings, but is still positive for the season with 1.20 more goals saved than the norm. He was at +4.34 (11And in the NHL) before his nightmare seven goals last Tuesday, a career first.
It wasn’t his night and the Buffalo Sabers led 2-0 after just 52 seconds. The first goal, by Rasmus Dahlin with 35 seconds left, was embarrassing, but Allen still missed early. Ditto on the second one, JJ Peterka’s, when he rushed too fast to his left. It was done wrong.
Six goals conceded from 11 dangerous attacks is too much, plus Jeff Skinner’s seventh goal exasperated Allen to the point of breaking his stick. This perimeter one-timer only had a 5% chance of success. In short, an evening to forget.
Our three stars
Our three stars of the week are, in order, Ilya Sorokin (3-0-0/.963/1.32), Islanders, Tristan Jarry (2-0-0/.969/0.96), Penguins and Darcy Kuemper (2 – 0-0/.964/0.99), uppercase.
Sorokin was fabulous last Wednesday with a 49 save save against the Oilers.
New leaders
We have two new leaders in the top 30: Sorokin and Alexandar Georgiev of the Avalanche, equal to 10,287 points. Linus Ullmark is third at 10.285, but the Bruins goaltender was injured on his last outing.
From memory, this is the first time that two dots separate our three tenors.
Sorokin under the magnifying glass
We like Sorokin’s responsiveness as well as his mastery and speed in repositioning himself on second chances to score; a fine role model for young goalkeepers to copy in this final chapter.
In addition, he has only divested three times on thirty rebounds since the start of the season, while the normal CSA is double that, which is 6.42.
In total, 75% of his returns were directed to his strong (near) side, a good sign. The solid 27-year-old Russian is also in the lead with 14.44 goals conceded.
From March 2021
Sorokin is a quiet force. As of March 14, 2021, his overall record in 82 games is 44-27-10/.927/2.32. His .927 save percentage is best ahead of Igor Shesterkin (.926), Juuse Saros (.921), Predators and Rangers’ Ullmark (.921).
The Islanders goalkeeper finished fourth in our rankings last season behind Vezina Trophy finalists Shesterkin, Saros and Jacob Markstrom.
Robin Lehner said in the summer of 2021 that Sorokin was one of the top six goaltenders in the NHL. Yet at the time he had just 22 regular games of experience and seven more in the playoffs. “Well seen! Batman would say to Robin.
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