Lehtonen and the Rest of the Season

by jf55510 on Mar 4, 2010 1:31 PM CST

So Sturm writes a blog for the Stars' website. In his latest blog post he wrote, "But, I think keep Turco means that they will be judicious with Lehtonen's starts and set him up for a successful 4 or 5 starts in the final 20 games."

http://stars.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=520132

Excuse me? Four or five starts? What the hell. Lethonen should be getting about 15 starts. How can any competent executive go into the next season with his starting goalie only have played five games the previous season? A goaltending duo of Lethonen and Krahn (or some other similarily situated spare) would be such a disaster. I can't comprehend such a situaion. This thing is not going in a good way. No money to upgrade the D, an extremely poor goaltending situation is not a formula for success.

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Somwhat Agree

I do agree that Lehtonen needs to be in net for the majority of games left this season. Turco has done nothing this season to suggest otherwise.

But the sky isn’t falliing, chicken little. You make it sound like this team is in last place. There a short run from being 7th in the playoffs.

We also are unfortunately in the best division in the best conference in the NHL. A few different results in SO earlier this season and we would be firmly in the playoffs right now…point being, this team is not as bad as you seem to make them out to be.

by 5PointPuckism on Mar 4, 2010 2:00 PM CST reply actions

Yeah

Yeah, they are also one loss from 12th place. This team is a mediocre team because of poor defense and poor goaltending. They don’t have the cash to fix the former and Joe’s attempt at fixing the latter is not looking promising.

by jf55510 on Mar 4, 2010 2:22 PM CST up reply actions

With the effort they're

giving, the sky is in fact falling. You can point your fingers to basically half the team right now. There’s no effort. There’s no commitment. There’s certainly not much coaching or leadership. They keep playing like this they’re closer to last year’s draft pick than they are the playoffs.

At this point I’m not sure you can reasonable expect to earn a point on this roadtrip.

by Hull Fan on Mar 4, 2010 10:17 PM CST up reply actions

Well, don’t jump to conclusions about the goaltending until we actually see Keri play a few games….lol. That’s only fair, eh?

I think Turco’s perfect as a backup from now on. He’s played out.

by 5PointPuckism on Mar 4, 2010 2:34 PM CST reply actions

I want to see Lehtonen

as much as possible. But I also don’t want to over extend him at the risk of reinjury. It’s kind of a tight rope. I see the goal as evaluating him, not riding him hard to make the playoffs.

by 1paniolo on Mar 5, 2010 9:25 AM CST reply actions