“It’s unacceptable on my half,” he told The Athletic’s Tarik El-Bashir after failing to make a stop on the three shots he faced before being pulled from Monday’s game against Colorado. “The last few games here I feel like I (can) put a lot of that weight on my shoulders. ...I need to be better.”
Reasonable minds can disagree as to how to apportion blame for those three goals or any of the 18 he’s allowed so far this season, but the bottom line is just flat ugly - Holtby’s .846 all-situation save percentage is dead last in the League among goalies with more than 180 minutes played (his five-on-five mark of .