Okay, so let's actually look at this.
In game 7's, Boudreau's teams outshoot the opposition (they get 54% of the shots on average, but only 1/3 of the goals). Boudreau's goalies have posted an .867 save percentage at 5 on 5. At even strength, 5.5% of their shots went into the net.
Year over year, during the regular season, those same teams have the following even strength numbers.
2008 WSH: .915 sv%, 7.8 sh%
2009 WSH: .920 sv%, 7.6 sh%
2010 WSH: .930 sv%, 10.4 sh%
2011 WSH: .927 sv%, 7.5 sh%
2013 ANA: .930 sv%, 8.6 sh%
2014 ANA: .926 sv%, 9.8 sh%
2015 ANA: .919 sv%, 8.4 sh%
2016 ANA: .923 sv%, 6.6 sh%
Those numbers are nowhere close to what his team gives him in game 7's.
So what's the theory here? Before every game 7, Boudreau gives his pre-game speech, and forgets to tell his goalies how to stop pucks and his skaters how to score, so they don't know what to do when they get out there?
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