Why am I so serene about it? Basically because he won it on two months of hot play, and two months don't change everything. What I wrote previously was a basically a subjective history--here are actual stats of season performances.
At the end of February this season, Bob was 3-6-3, .899%, and 0 SOs. Nothing any Flyer fan would think twice about. Over the next two months, Bob caught fire and would go 18-5-3, .946% and 4 SOs. Thus he won the Vezina in a 4 month season with a cumulative stat line of 21-11-6, .932%. History has shown us however, that the first 4 months of the season usually go very well for Bobrovsky, and then the wheels come off.
First, you might notice a general pattern to Bobrovsky's seasons in this chart;
You can begin to see a pattern there of peaking around month 4 of the season, then sagging thereafter. Moreover, in all 3 seasons, his month 4 performance is extremely similar. That chart is still a little convoluted though. Strip away more of the noise, and just break it up at the 4 month mark of the season. The dichotomy becomes much more clear;
The second half of the season has been much more challenging for Bobrovsky thus far in his career, and it's probably not a coincidence that his first big season has come in a year where there was no second half. What he did in the first 4 months of 2012 is better than his first two years with the Flyers, but not drastically so.
Is it possible that he wouldn't have had a bad second half, and he has simply developed his game? Of course. Is this a jaded fan rationalization? Probably. But I still don't have too many regrets over the situation.
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