Yes.
He has not played to form for the past 2 seasons. I accounted his horrible start to the season last year to the strike, and this year to defense. However, the defense is getting it done now, and he is giving games away. Today, the Rangers come back from down 2-0 to tie the game up, and he gives the shooter a 5 hole you could drive a truck through.
Yeah, he makes some amazing saves, as do most goalies, but his consistency is way down.
Hank had just gotten his form back the last month before the olympics happened and the same thing is probably going to happen the last few times Hank was in the Olympics, he gets used to the bigger ice too much and he suffers for the first few weeks back.
The play you're talking about in the post above is not all on Hank, look at how Boyle and I think Staal both played off Simmons thinking he would pass it when he was wide open a good 6 feet from the net. We're used to Hank making that save yes, but that's going in the net 90% of the time no matter who's in net.
But in terms of Talbot, I promise you if he took over the starters role he wouldn't be as dominate as he is as a backup.
