Binnington is so complicated. Cause imagine being one of the sole, if not considered the SOLE reason your team reached stardom— the reason that the blues are engraved on the cup.
Then just watching your team COLLAPSE around you over the span of 4 years. Completely destroyed. And then taking the blunt of the blame, even when you, and this hurts my soul to say as a Binnington hater— played just as good as before.
A part of me wants to say “deserved skill issue tbh” but at the same time it makes total sense why’d he become a villain / pest after the fact.
SKILL ISSUE TBH ‼️‼️ no but for real, the blues have like maybe 5 players currently who were on the cup winning team and while i love to blame binnington, he is NOT the sole reason for the blues’ collapse.
looking at the stats you can see that his save percentage and goals against are significantly worse than in 18-19 but, and i hate to say it since i love these guys, the rest of the team is worse as well. sure, his stats are worse, but he also played literally twice as much this year as he did in 18-19??? and i think he has the statistical misfortune of having a fucking crazy insane amazing rookie year that he’ll never be able to live up to.
i always say that the 18-19 blues cup run basically ran on hope and dreams and the power of gloria. and that’s just not something this team has anymore.
and in all honesty he’s always been a pest 😭 “do i look nervous” babe you look fucking annoying BE NORMAL BE NORMALLLL