Leading up to the start of the 2019-20 season, fans of the Buffalo Sabres agreed that in order to experience meaningful progress, the team would need to show significant improvement between the pipes (among several other things). Through the first 10 games of the season, the Carter Hutton and Linus Ullmark tandem has shown marked statistical improvement (Hutton in particular, but we’ll get to that in a moment) from last season.
In terms of both base, and advanced statistics, they’ve so far out-performed the 2018-19 versions of themselves. That said, a lot of their early success has to do with Ralph Krueger’s new system, which has done a nice job of limiting high-danger opportunities, this season.