Jeff Deslauriers: Good Times, Bad Times

We knew the Edmonton Oilers believed in Jeff Deslauriers and this year the club needed him to carry the load. He had some excellent games, some poor ones and even more games where he mixed the good and bad randomly. Watching rookie goaltenders can turn you grey. Ask Pat Quinn. Boxcars: 48gp, 3.26 SP: .901WLT: 16-28-4SP behind starter: .008Cap hit (capgeek): $.600M (rfa)What do these numbers tell us? There were 6 rookie goalies who played over 1,000 minutes in the NHL this season. They were: Rask (Bos) .931; Howard (Det) .924; Varlamov (Was) .909; Gustafsson (Tor) .902; Deslauriers (Edm) .901 and Dubnyk (Edm) .889. JDD played in front of a poor team but you'd be hard pressed to include him among the league's top rookies at the position. Deslauriers had some outstanding games (3 SO's tied him with Howard for 2nd among first year G's) but as mentioned above there were some poor moments.How could these numbers be better? JDD does have one year's experience now and mu...