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Gman0959 wrote:

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What a bunch of gobble-de-!*%#. He's an upgrade over Mavric Parks......Period! Any credible person who follows the league says so.

Question.....Since you guys are smarter than the me, the scouts, mav and Gilmour.....Tell me, if the Assistant Coaches are incapable of developing players and need to be fired then why does the Goalie Coach get a pass? You complain the Fronts can't develop a goaltender.

I notice you completely ignored the points I made in my post. You insisted that Parks wasn't a quality goalie because a]he wasn't drafted (which I proved a wrong assumption based on three undrafted goalies who went on to win OHL Goalie of the Year) and b]because he couldn't maintain a .900+ save percentage on a bad team (which I proved wrong again with two NHL stars who put up bad save percentages on bad teams in junior). So, explain then why your two theories (not drafted and .900 save percentage on a bad team) don't account for the examples I gave you.

To answer your question, the lack of development of goalies has less to do with the goalie coach and more to do with the fact Mavety (or Gilmour, depending who is actually the GM) trades away any youngster before they're given a chance, and acquires someone else's 19-year old. So why would the goalie coach be blamed when he's not the one in charge of constantly bringing in another team's 19 year old?

fossil30 wrote:

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That is NOT the case at all. Maybe its the fact that he was asked to play 50 plus games and he isn't capable of it. Everyone has seen Mavric win a game completely on his own, so he obviously has the skill, the concerns and issues with him are that he isn't consistent enough on a game in and game out basis. So with a lightened work load he is playing more consistent, but would he be that consistent if he played as a regular number 1 goalie in the league. Those are questions we won't know until he becomes a starter in this league again.

First of all, he wouldn't have had to play 50+ games. Cullen's a more than capable backup goalie, and the two of them, even if they didn't split duties 50/50, could have gone with about 40 games for Parks, 28 games for Cullen. Or even 45 games Parks, 23 games for Cullen. Teams don't need to play their starters 90% of the games when they have a solid backup, especially if the ONLY thing holding a goalie back from putting up impressive numbers is fatigue. In the NHL they do, because the #1's salary is usually $5+ million and they want to make sure they're making the most of their investment, especially when they have a league minimum wage backup. In the OHL, neither goalie is making outrageous sums of money, so there's not the same need to play one almost all the games. Look at the tandem in Kitchener with Parks and Maxwell. It certainly hasn't hurt them to go with a two-goalie system, rather than playing one all the games.

Second, we've yet to see Mavric Parks play behind a good team in Kingston. Both years he played here, the team was AWFUL. Like my examples with Luongo and Fleury, you can't expect good numbers from even the best goalies in junior if you put a crappy club in front of them. Goalies have bad games, even the great ones. Again look at Luongo in Game 6 against Chicago last year, look at Fleury in Game 5 against Detroit. Are you suggesting that Luongo and Fleury aren't fit to be starters in the NHL, all because they've had their share of rough outings? You do know that a goalie, no matter how good he is, is going to have his share of stinkers over the course of a year. ESPECIALLY when they play behind a horrible defense. Yet, Parks was crucified whenever he'd have a bad game, even if he'd earned a game star the previous five games. He was run out of town because he wasn't perfect each and every game. And now that he's in an environment where he's allowed to have a bad game once in a while without being blamed for the loss, he's thriving.

Finally, you're comparing Parks' performance from last season to Beskorowany's performance this season. That's apples and oranges, considering the teams they play behind. You saw how bad that team was last year. This year's squad is playing much better, and with all the off-season acquisitions, should be much better than last year's. Besko's been outstanding, don't get me wrong. But he's also been hung out to dry much, much less this year than Parks was last year. Besko's not having to steal every single game for this team. Last year, we didn't win if Parks wasn't first star.