#12 Prospect: Devan Dubnyk

Current Rank: #12Summer 2009: #12Devan Dubnyk's goaltending career-- more than pretty much anyone since Gilles Meloche--has been spent in the service of subpar teams. In junior, his Kamloops Blazers were a middling team who seemed to be shorthanded nightly. In the AHL, Dubnyk's Falcons have been flat out bad since he arrived.The question with regard to DD is he the victim or the cause? It's rather hard to come up with a definitive answer but there are some things we can know just using math. As bad as the blue was in 08-09, each of Springfield's goalies had the same job every gamenight--stop the puck. Here are the save percentages (by season) for Dubnyk and the other Falcons goalies, split right down the middle.09-10: Dubnyk (.924), Others (.885)08-09: Dubnyk (.906), Others (.904)07-08: Dubnyk (.904), Others (.911)2007-09 the "others" was mostly JDD with some help from Dany Sabourin. Both had more experience than Dubnyk and certainly outperformed him in his...