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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
This gets thrown around a lot but the fact of the matter is that Hiller stats-wise over 52 games was in a dead heat with guys like Luongo, Andersen and better than guys like Lack, Ward, Miller, Anderson, Bobrovsky, etc. Fans have to come to grips that guys like Price, Lundquist, Rinne are the exception not the norm for goaltending level of play. Flames goaltending at worst was pretty average but wasn't nearly as bad as some make it out to be at times.
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Oh I agree. And average is probably a fair term, though I think anything above that over-states the quality of the goaltending. The way I break it down is you had two guys:
Hiller - more consistent, but not capable of stealing many games
Ramo - more inconsistent, but more capable of stealing the odd game
It stuns me this team actually got in with this as the tandem. I would put it in the bottom third of the league. But I'm also just not a fan of Hiller so maybe I have some built-in bias.