Silver Nuggets: Brian Elliott's resurrection

He’s shown he can be a good backup, but not the starter with Ottawa. Whether that’s a mental toughness thing or what I don’t know. But he’s playing in a good system down there and it’s working for him. All the best to him – he seems like a good team guy and was always gracious with his time here.

I never held him personally responsible for the teams poor performance last season. He was not put in a position to be successful, and he wasn’t getting much help from his teammates. I think the trade to Colorado may have shattered whatever confidence he had left. I don’t know what he did, or what kind of help he had in the off season, but his results this year have been truly impressive.
Good for him for getting such great results. I’m happy that he’s found a groove and I hope he continues to play well. Glad he’s gotten some All-Star love, especially with the game here in Ottawa. Its good for him to be able to prove all of his detractors wrong.

I wish him nothing but good fortune… unless we end up facing him in the Stanley Cup final someday!

One: Both Ottawa and Colorado had horrible defenses last year. He lost his confidence, let in some really bad goals. It was expected that he would bounce back, like most of the Sens players did.

Two: Elliot is not in the Top 30 in games played, shots against or Time on Ice. St Louis has allowed the second least amount of goals in the league. He has backup numbers, close to Rask. All his stats show is that he is a very good backup. It also shows that St Louis’ system is a big part of his success.

Good for him, cause I felt he took too much of the criticism for last year’s debacle.

that’s why I roll my eyes when people take the first half pace and assume it’ll repeat itself.

Brian Elliot shows us all how much talent and skill is about 25% of the story and the other 75% is mental. Exaggerated for effect, but you get my meaning.

And goalies, the mental part of it is probably even more important.

The ability to let go of the upset when someone scores or when you lose a game is tantamount. Of course when everyone and his mother is dumping crap on you like it was happening last year, this task of letting go becomes harder and harder.

And I’m someone who said he’d never be more than a backup.

I’m fine if Elliot becomes the best goalie in the NHL over the years. We still made a good trade at the time.

It just shows us all how much effect Garrioch and his kind, combined with us rabid fans and our habit of eating underperformers for lunch.

I’m not saying it’s all on us… but we don’t exactly inspire those who are underperforming.