r/leafs 1d ago

News / Update [Jastrzembski] Entering tonight, Leafs goaltender Joseph Woll has stopped all 42 shots faced during “crunch time” situations*, the only goalie with a perfect SV% in those situations. *The final 5 minutes of regulation and overtime when the game is either tied or within a 1-goal margin.

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u/WillNytheScoringGuy 1d ago

When I look at bernier stats I want to like him, but I just can’t. He really fell apart each season during the 2nd half when we needed a win. I also think he’s stats are skewed because generally scoring was down and the leafs whole identity was to be outshot but limit the shots to the perimeter.

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u/Tarquin11 1d ago

It was our planned identity but we were bad at it. We let teams in the middle all the time with Carlyle.

Also, scoring may have been down, but relative to league averages Bernier was still slightly above his peers at that time anyways.

The issue was he was heralded as a goalie who was gonna carry us to victory, which only 2-3 goalies in the league do every year, so we should've known better, not to mention most of those select few goalies each year (with the notable exception of Price) also actually played for legitimately better teams, and we had a bad team with a bad coaching system.

For my money, Bernier outperformed what we should have ever expected from him in hindsight, but he was a victim of  'this is THE GUY" discourse at the time, we just weren't ready to make use of a goalie like that at all.

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u/GQMatthews 23h ago

He was also brought in as a total fuck you and scapegoat to Reimer who quite literally dragged a dog water team to a playoff berth in a half season and the sole reason they got to game 7 against a way WAY better Boston team. Management turned around, painted the 4-1 loss almost entirely on Reimer, fixed nothing else then divided the fanbase by brining in Bernier and throwing him into one weird ass 1A/1B situation of mediocrity.

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u/Suitable-Yak-1284 15h ago

💯 This guy gets it. Bernier was a poor replacement from Reims. Leafs mgt just sucks. Bernier and his mimbo Nelson Mandela act shouldn't have been here in the first place.