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Originally Posted by The Cobra
Tell that to the Canadians when Carey Price goes down.
A high end goal tender going down isn't easy to replace.
The Kings missed the playoffs the moment Quick was injured, although they had a decent in-house replacement (an average goalie).
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First of all Price is not a high end goaltender, he's inhuman. There are always exceptions.
Second, I didn't say high end goalies are easy to replace, I said you can replace high end goaltending (0.925%) with average goaltending (0.915%) and not suffer that much because of it.
If you try to replace it with average goaltending (0.915%) and end up getting terrible goaltending (< 0.905%) then you are in trouble. Unfortunately that's what happened to the Flames going from 2014/15 to 2015/16...it just happened to be the same goalie is all.