Colorado Avalanche: Solving the Goal Tending Crisis

The Colorado Avalanche have a goalie crisis. Unfortunately, the team has limited options for solving that crisis.

The Colorado Avalanche have a goal tending crisis. That language may seem a little inflammatory, but there’s no question goal tending has been costing the team games recently.

You only have to look at the save percentage in recent games to see it’s been a rollercoaster affair.

Semyon Varlamov:

.885

.968

.857

.850

.933

.733

Philipp Grubauer:

.700

.960

.714

.953

.750

Neither goalie has been universally bad — in fact, both goalies had really good games in the recent stretch. However, both goalies have had games where they weren’t even putting up league-average goal tending.

Currently, Varlamov has…