Over the last two seasons, Allen has averaged 60 starts per season while posting a 2.75 GAA (14th) and .906 SV% (21st). Allen looks like a pretty average netminder, but he plays behind a defensively sound team that scores a lot of goals, so he’ll rack up the wins this year. He draws a brutal matchup tonight with the Jets in town—he was 1-2-0 with a 3.34 GAA and .890 SV% against them last season.
During the 2017-18 season, Markstrom started a career-high 57 games and went 23-26-7 with a 2.71 GAA, .912 SV% and two shutouts. The Sedin Twins are gone, but the Canucks have some young blood that could provide Markstrom with a decent amount of goal support this year. Tonight he faces a Flames team that he was 1-2-0 while allowing 13 goals on 78 shots (.833 SV%) against last year.
Allen was sidelined with back spasms during the start of training camp, but has been cleared for game action on Tuesday. This is great news for the Blues, who kick-off the regular season next Thursday (Oct. 4th). Allen had one of his worst seasons in 2017-18, going 27-25-3 with a 2.75 GAA, .906 SV% and one shutout. He had a negative (-10.34) goals saved above average for the first time since 2015.
Hamilton is ranked as the No.13 right-handed defenseman according to Corsica Player Ratings. During his three-years in Calgary, Hamilton ranked sixth in the NHL among defensemen in goals (62) and 17th in points (137). Over the last two seasons, Hamilton has a 56.3 CorsiFor% and brings that to a team that ranked first in Corsi last season.
Despite being ruled out for the final two games of the season, Glendening will actually replace Luke Witkowski in the Red Wings lineup for their season finale vs. the Islanders.
Glendening left Tuesday’s game with an upper-body injury and will end the 2018 season the same way he ended the 2017 season, with an injury. Glendening finishes the season with 19 points (11G / 8A) in 68 games.
Allen was pulled after he allowed two goals on 14 shots in the Blues 6-0 loss in Arizona on Saturday. Allen finished March at 8-3-1 with a 2.27 GAA and .916 SV%. Tonight he faces the Capitals on home ice, where he has gone 14-10-0 with a 2.58 GAA and .903 SV% this season.
