Jones & Keefe: Andrew Raycroft on Jeremy Swayman's play so far this season

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00:00to this point of the year and I get it that they're they're trying to kill off a lot of penalties and the you know

00:06Toronto scores three power play goals the other night, but just looking at the overall numbers

00:10He's now down to 40th in the league and goals against average. How would you say the the C?

00:16I know the stats don't always tell the story

00:17So how would you say through whatever it is 10 starts that he has had Swainman is playing I?

00:24Think he's been good

00:25I think it's really hard to have good numbers when you're giving up three power play goals because

00:30Essentially you have to be

00:32Really perfect the rest of the way and you have to get a lot of shots to get your numbers up

00:36So three power play goals you need 30 power play shots to end up 900

00:41Which is a respectable number in this league the same percentages are going down shooters are getting better

00:46so

00:47When you when you put up a six spot early in the season that's going to inflate your six goals on in a half a game

00:53Last week yeah, that's going to really inflate the numbers

00:56So I think that

00:58The numbers aren't ideal, but you can explain that I think his game itself has been good

01:03And I think he needs a little bit of help both goaltenders on

01:06That penalty kill because again if you give up if you're a goaltender you're giving up three power play goals in a game

01:12It's just it's just never going to make your stats look good. It's a cuz again

01:17I can go and I could take those out

01:20Because I don't I think we could all agree like it wasn't like he had a chance on those power play goals Tuesday night

01:25In Toronto so you take those out and he made 20 of 20 saves

01:29Five on five and look pretty solid outside of those so I think the the penalty kill numbers

01:34And this goes back guys to so maybe why the goaltending numbers have been so amazing here for a long time

01:41Is because the penalty kills been so good for so long and so much better than everybody else in the league that

01:47Those it we're seeing what can happen if you have a bad penalty kill to goaltender numbers on top of standing