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Old 07-08-2013, 04:39 PM   #61
pseudoreality
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Originally Posted by getbak View Post
I just don't understand why goalies are held to a much higher standard than players at other positions.

In the last 30 years, 55 players have been inducted to the HHOF, and only 4 of them were goalies (Smith, Fuhr, Roy, and Belfour). If we used the same "he was never the best player at his position" criteria for non-goalies, any centre whose career coincided with Gretzky and Lemieux shouldn't be in the Hall either.
There are typical only 2 out of 23 man nhl roster. 4 out of 55 isn't that much worse.


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