Making back-to-back begins for NHL goaltenders has turn into the equal of recording full video games for main league beginning pitchers: way back and forgotten, apart from in ballads of glory.
Friday, I had prompt in a submit on X (previously Twitter) that Igor Shesterkin, who has began on consecutive days 4 occasions in his NHL profession with a 4-0/2.25/.933 slash line on his second video games, ought to go back-to-back this weekend with the Rangers in Columbus on Saturday and on the Backyard on Sunday towards the Oilers.
If not this weekend, then when? is the query I posed. It nonetheless stands. If in case you have an asset you worth as probably the most beneficial on the planet, and that is crucial time of 12 months, shouldn’t you journey him as a lot as cheap?
Ah, however there’s the rub, matey. One man’s definition of, say, cheap, is, say, nearly each man’s definition of, say, cheap. A minimum of, that’s, in terms of goaltending rotations across the league.
