[San Francisco Fire - First NHL Official Pre-Season]
The Fire may have a lot of NHL experience throughout its locker room, but for the organization, this would be the showing of what to expect (Hopefully) from a new organization stepping into the league.
In the 7 Pre-Season Games, the team did extremely well posting a 6-1-0 Record. The impressive part is they scored 26 goals (3.7 Goals a Game Avg) and only allowing 10 Goals (1.4 Goals Against) in the stretch.
Both goalies had some up and downs, but proved to be capable of defending the crease in most night. Antti Raanta got the extra game in hand, but both goalies had split time to figure out, who was going to be the starter.
Terence Baker quoted "This is hard" as he looked at how his goalies performed. Raanta who posted a 3-1-0 record, faced 73 shots and made 67 saves (.918 SV% / 1.50 GAA). Where Zatkoff went undefeated posting a 3-0-0 Record, faced 64 shots and made 60 saves (.938 SV% / 1.30 GAA). Not only that, both these goalies took huge steps last season becoming starters for their teams due to Injuries.
When asked the big question on whom will be the Starter for the game opener, Terence Replied "It will be a game day decision, but I will be taking Dwayne Roloson's thoughts into consideration come the decision". Not only that, he added "Expect both to be actively seen in the start of the season, as this pre-season proved both deserve some time".
Seeing past the goalies, the players also showed up. As expected Tomas Tatar lead the team in Goals and tied for top points on the team with 8. The surprising Jason Zucker was the one to tie Tatar with the 8 points.
Also having big pre-seasons were Mikael Grunlund (7pts), Viktor Arvidsson (7pts) and Ivan Barbashev (6pts)
A few stars that had rough times were Jason Spezza (3pts in 7 games), Kevin Shattenkirk (4 pts in 7 games), Brandon Dubinsky (4 pts in 7 games) and Jack Johnson (3pts in 7 games).
When asked what he thought of his big names having a rough pre-season, Terence defended them stating "Pre-Seasons simply a warm up for the Regular Season. I expect these guys to be huge contributors to the coming season, and have all the faith in the world with the guys I have put together here".
Belows the schedule that the San Francisco Fire had during the pre-season.
