Jimmy Howard has been off. This has been the case for a while now, ever since some idiot on the internet wrote about how he and Petr Mrazek have each played pretty well compared to the rest of the league. At that time, Howard was posting some pretty impressive numbers, including a 2.25 Goals Against Average and .925 Save Percentage, each being in the top half of the league.
That was December 11th. Since then his game has tanked.
In the past four weeks, Howard’s Save Percentage has been .867 and his Goals Against Average has been 4.