Bullfrog said:
I've absolutely seen some success from Gustavsson, but thanks for answering for me anyway. I've seen some mediocre games from him, but I've also seen him single-handedly defeat the Rangers or keep the leafs in games they shouldn't have been in. I think he's back up goalie in this league.
I've seen Scrivens dominate in the AHL and have seen him play a couple of good and a couple of very bad games in the NHL.
I truly hope Scrivens develops into a good NHL starter, but I'm reserving judgement until he actually wins some games there.
I'm not 100% either Scrivens or Reimer ever become a legitimate NHL starter.
While Scrivens may only have a few starts in the league, you can't go on Gustavsson's larger sampling. Gustavsson has cost the Leafs as many games as he's 'won' for them. If going on a couple luke warm streaks deems success in the NHL I'd like a shot. I'm sure I could get it done for a few days.
I'm a big supporter of goaltenders in most cases(have been playing goalie and coaching them for 30 years). They receive a bad rap in most situations, and while I thoroughly enjoy Gustavsson's athletic ability, his positional play leaves much to be desired. When the goaltending coaches have attempted at fixing this he became inefficient in my books and reverted to his old play which leaves you with a goalie that makes a good save and then is so far out of position, he has no hope to make the next save.
Reimer on the other hand needs to be a hybrid goalie. He has some good athletic abilities but he needs to be sound positionally and play big. For most of his struggles last year, his athletic abilities disappeared and it seemed he was just trying to get in front of the puck. It's my personal opinion that it is either a by-product of the coaching(Allaire) or his injury. I'm hoping it was a combination of both and he can return to the way he was before.
With Scrivens, I see a solid positional goalie with good enough reflexes to get it done. He's never going to be top 15 in the league but I don't think Reimer will either.
Out of the 3 currently, I'd rank them in this order based on rank(if Gustavsson was with the Leafs)
1.Reimer
2.Gustavsson(would be back up based on amount of starts solely)
3.Scrivens
Man, think i just talked myself into agreeing with you.
And, again, this is just my opinion.
I feel like if things were to go how I invision them, Scrivens will replace Reimer as #1 on the depth chart(though really, neither are top 25 in the league).