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Old 03-06-2017, 11:30 AM   #117
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It really is glorious that they never acquired a veteran back-up. What is the most games played in a season by a goaltender? I'm pretty confident that Talbot does play 15 of their 17 games remaining (they have 2 x B2Bs where Brossoit will get in), putting him at 73 GP on the season.
In the past 20 years, nine goalies have played in +75 games in an NHL regular season. Grant Fuhr once played in 79 games in 1995–96; Martin Brodeur played in 78 games once, and 77 games three times in his NHL career.

In the same past two decades 18 goalies have played in +73 games, but it has happened only seven times since 2009. The era of the +65-game goalie is rapidly disappearing if it has not already happened. The ideal makeup for today's NHL team is to have a top goalie who can play 55–60 games in a season, and then go the distance in the playoffs, and a backup goalie who can carry the remaining 20–30 games.

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TO add to this, what is Talbot's career high in games played for a season? He's been a backup until he went to Edmonton.
Cam Talbot played in 56 games last year.
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