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Originally Posted by ScorchyScorch
Ramo's performance vs. Ducks (even despite results) > Hiller's vs Vancouver.
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We watched totally different series then.
I saw Hiller shutting the door on Vrbata, Daniel Sedin, Bo Horvat, Henrik Sedin... all skilled forwards while shutting down everybody else period.
I saw Ramo getting lit up, invariably, by Matt Belesky.
Don't get me wrong, Ramo had some great saves, especially game 5 where he stood on his head.
At the end of the day, Ramo's .907 save percentage against the Ducks while Hiller was .931% against the Canucks.
We needed Ramo against the Ducks because he's better laterally and they were lighting us up on cross-ice passes. But he wasn't as good as we needed him to be. It was in that series where neither goaltender had the package needed to steal a series, so I don't blame Ramo or Hiller, but let's get real. If Ramo could have just stopped some of those very ordinary Matt Belesky shots, it might have been a 6 or 7 game series. I didn't think the Blackhawks were that much better against the Ducks than the Flames in games 2-5.