"Long Island Faceoff" Staff Report
2015-16 was one of the Islanders' best seasons in their recent history.
They made it past the first round of the playoffs since 1993.
What player is mainly to thank for such an achivement?
How about goaltender Thomas Greiss?
After spending 2014-15 in Pittsburgh, Greiss came to the Islanders not being expected to do too much.
But with injuries to Islanders starting goaltender Jaroslav Halak, Greiss earned some extensive playing time.
In that playing time in the regular season, he posted a career-best save percentage of .925, a career-best record of 23-11-4, a career-best 1107 saves, all in 41 games played, the most in any season in his career.
One could argue however that Greiss played in many more games this season than any other season, which is why his stats are so much better this season than any of his six other seasons in the NHL.
But we here at "Long Island Faceoff" feel that Greiss worked hard to earn those numbers for this season, and that is why we give him a very impressive final - season grade.
We're giving Greiss the grade we're giving him because of the fact that he played in half of the Islanders games this season and put up stellar numbers. Had he played more and ept up his great goaltending, we definitely would have given him an A+ for sure.
FINAL GRADE: A-
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