I was reading the Post over the weekend and they had a piece on the point-value (or something - I wish I could remember exactly the name and the source) of players to their team. Basically, someone analyzed what a particular player is worth to his team in terms of points in the standings. Malkin was the top skater with somewhere around 12 I believe (no Flame made the top 20 or whatever they had in the paper) and Kipper was #5 among goalies with 10.9 (I believe Rinne, Lundqvist, Mike Smith and........... Fleury?... were ahead of him). So, basically we would have 11 less points if we had an "average" goalie.
BTW, Bobby Orr holds the all-time recond with 20-something. Gretzky had around 19.
I am terribly sorry, but I was on holiday in Ivermere, so I cannot recall the website where all this can be found...
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