Saros or Lehner ROS

[flyersffan]

Playoffs start tomorrow, have Binnington, Bobrovsky and Saros.

Lehner was just dropped, should I pick him up and drop Saros?

W, SV, GA, SV% and SHO are the categories, can only have 3 on the roster

[anthonybeaty]

Saros has been terrible. Lehner is a backup. Are there really no other choices?

[newfcollins]

Saros has actually been excellent lately. He's started 10 of the Preds last 13 games (and coming in relief in one of them). Since Feb. 4, Saros is 7-3 with a 2.33 GAA and a .930 SV %.

I'd keep Saros.

[gogoayane]

I'd keep Saros for now but monitor Lehner... I was surprised he got the start after MAF's shutout... so I'm curious if they'll go with 1 start each until playoff (MAF will start the playoff barring injury).

[anthonybeaty]

Saros has actually been excellent lately. He's started 10 of the Preds last 13 games (and coming in relief in one of them). Since Feb. 4, Saros is 7-3 with a 2.33 GAA and a .930 SV %.

I'd keep Saros.

I wouldn't say excellent. His GAA is 2.75 and his SV% is 9.21. Looking deeper in his last 10:

4 GAA - 1 time
3 GAA - 5 times (1 time was in relief where he gave up 2 goals in 40 mins).
2 GAA - 3 times
1 GAA - 0 times
1 shutout

The shutout has a huge effect on his numbers. Given that he has been in 35 games and only has 2 shutouts, the influence it has on 10 games is bigger than it should be. We need to look at 17.5 games for the shutout to have the right effect. In addition, 6/10 games have been bad (>= 3 GAA). Since the average GAA in the nhl is 2.89 (best that I could find), he is worse than that in the majority of his games. The big Saros problem right now is that he is giving up too many goals. If 1 or 2 of the three GAA games were 1 GAA, then I would have a different opinion. This has been his problem all season long.

I am not sure I want either Lehner or Saros. I go back to my question, is there no one else available on the WW/FA list?

[Axeman33]

Right now, I'd say Saros. I dont see Lehner getting much more than every other game right now at best, where as Saros seems to have taken the crease in Nashville.

[Dikoi]

Right now, I'd say Saros. I dont see Lehner getting much more than every other game right now at best, where as Saros seems to have taken the crease in Nashville.

I really don’t trust Nashville as a team though, I’d monitor what goes on in Vegas but my gut feeling says Lehner and Fleury split the crease 50-50 the rest of the season

[gogoayane]

FWIW Lehner is starting tomorrow. I do think they'll go 50/50 all the way as they are gearing up for playoff. Saros is the starter in NAS so if you need starts over quality start, you should take Saros.