Ben Bishop isn’t ready to be the old guy in net. He’s spent the summer getting healthy, tweaking his training, and preparing for a season in which he’ll be 32 years old and needing to come out on the better side of a statistical battle.
Don’t get him wrong – he says he’s looking forward to mentoring up-and-comers like Colton Point, who’s been joining him in practice at StarCenter Frisco. But he has a different world to beat this season, as Sean Shapiro points out in a new article at The Athletic DFW:
During the 2017-18 season, the average NHL save percentage was .