NHL Weekend Rankings: The Shocking Stories Everyone’s Buzzing About—But Are They True?
Five games isn’t a decade, and it’s barely even any kind of sample size. But so far, the goalie of the future is putting up mid-1980s numbers. There’s no reason to try to draw any meaningful conclusions from that, beyond the fact that the Flames aren’t good enough to be able to afford an extended slump by their young star. They’re already running out of time.
The good news is Jonathan Huberdeau is back, making his season debut on Saturday after a preseason injury sidelined him for the first five games. Huberdeau may never live up to his contract, but he’s still a talented playmaker whose absolute floor is about 50 points. On a team that’s dead last in goals scored, that will help.
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