GOALIE PREDICTIONS - Jan 14

[blayze]

MATCH-UPS - January 14, 2012
C = confirmed (All goalie confirmations can be found at GoaliePost or Leftwinglock)

Big night on Sat... thought I'd post this tonight to capture the early afternoon games

COL @ DAL - Giguere (C) vs Lehtonen (C)
BOS @ CAR - Thomas (C) vs Ward (C)
OTT @ MON - Anderson (C) vs Price (C)
NYR @ TOR - Biron (C) vs Gustavsson (C)
NJ @ WPG - Brodeur (C) vs Pavelec (C)
SJ @ CBJ - Greiss (C) vs Sanford (C)
BUF @ NYI - Enroth (C) vs Nabokov (C)
PHI @ NSH - Bryzgalov (C) vs Rinne (C)
MIN @ STL - Harding (C) vs Halak (C)
LA @ CGY - Quick (C) vs Kiprusoff
CHI @ DET - Crawford (C) vs Howard (C)


Background Info (Leaving this up till Sunday as an FYI for non-regulars)

Alright guys,

I'm trying this out for the first time this in an effort to consolidate the millions of "who should I start" threads that clutter the goalie forum.

All I ask is you guys give this a try before bashing it. If it works, I really think it will make lives easier around here both for members looking for advice and those who continuously and unselfishly answer duplicate posts. If it doesn't work, then it's just another redundant thread among the thousands

Purpose
-Reduce the amount of redundant "who to start" posts in the forum
-Provide one convenient location for everyone to ask "who to start" type questions
-Provide one convenient location for contributors to answer questions
-Provide one convenient location for "who to start" predictions and analysis
-Provide graphical representation of the popular forum opinion on starters (Poll)
-This is in no way meant to dissuade posters from creating their own threads

How it Works
-Someone (anyone) will create a new thread daily with the subject line above
-Members vote on the goalies to have their predictions included in the poll
-Members are also encourage to contribute in the form of predictions, questions or detailed analysis
-MODS feel free to update the OP and Poll with updated goalie info as it becomes available

[mounD]

Thomas[@CAR], Lundqvist/Biron[@TOR], Greiss[@CBJ] and Miller[@NYI] would all be FANTASTIC starts in my opinion. Elite goaltenders and quality matchups are abounding.

[blayze]

Thomas[@CAR], Lundqvist/Biron[@TOR], Greiss[@CBJ] and Miller[@NYI] would all be FANTASTIC starts in my opinion. Elite goaltenders and quality matchups are abounding.

Agreed.

My locks would be Thomas, Lundqvist/Biron, Miller, Halak and Greiss - solid goalies (except the latter) with great match-ups.

[Shake]

Crawford is in goal for Hawks and confirmed.

[blayze]

Crawford is in goal for Hawks and confirmed.

Thanks. Can you pls fix this in the poll?

[Shake]

Thanks. Can you pls fix this in the poll?

ok its done

[blayze]

ok its done

You must have some pretty good sources, I haven't seen it on goaliepost or LWL yet

[Shake]

You must have some pretty good sources, I haven't seen it on goaliepost or LWL yet

You'll see it posted up tomorrow.

[ItsAlwaysSunnyInDetroit]

I'll roll with Halak and Kipper. Not conventional, but I think Halak will continue his smoking hot ways and Flames getting the W in Cammalleri's debut against an LA Kings that can struggle to score. Why no Thomas or Lundy? Boston had trouble's with CAR (and CAR is looking better) and Leafs dynamic duo won't go 3 games straight without puttin some pucks in the net...and possibly getting the W against the superior NYR.

[Old_Smokie]

Hey guys who would start between Ward/Nabokov?

[Shake]

Hey guys who would start between Ward/Nabokov?

Both are tough.

I want no part of Ward vs Boston, so I'd take the lesser of two evil's and go with Nabby vs Buf.

[horrorfan]

Ward versus Boston this season:

2-0, 1.50, .952

Small sample, but had to share.

[seanavery]

Which 2 would you start guys?

Nabokov against Buffalo
Price against Ottawa
Crawford against Detroit

[Old_Smokie]

I'm going balls to the wall, Ward it is.

[Shake]

I'm going balls to the wall, Ward it is.

lol live and die by the sword young jedi gotta respect the ballsy play here.