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Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
Price's season was not much better than Mike Smith's season in 2011-2012, yet no one mentioned Smith winning the Hart that year. Put me in the group that are against putting goalies in the MVP conversation. Goaltending is such an important position that basically all of the best goalies should realistically be the most valuable to their teams.
That being said, it's pretty clear that Price carried Montreal this year, and they finished with a ton of points.
It often seems like assists are overvalued and goals are undervalued. Goals are what win games, and no one does it better than Ovy.
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But the best teams did not appear to have MVP type goaltending this year, for the most part.
Of the 4 teams still playing, no goaltenders were most valuable to their team.
Of the final 8, 2 were (Price and Dubnyk)
Of all teams in the playoffs, perhaps 3 were (includes Rinne).
Those numbers might suggest, surprisingly, that over the course of a season that a superstar goaltender is less important than one might think.