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Originally Posted by Bingo
Certainly not a vacuum of a science experiment but the Flames 04 run came when Kiprusoff only played a half season, and they were out early in each of his 70 game seasons.
Fuhr in St. Louis got a lot of work too, and the Blues were out in the first round in each of his two 70+ game seasons, but 2nd round when he played much less
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Yeah but how much of that is the goalie and how much is the team?
The year Roberto Luongo played 76 regular season games for the Canucks was also the year that he had his best playoff stats posting a .941 save percentage.
In 05-06 The Ducks scored 17 goals in 7 games and won the series. I don't see how you can put the blame on Kiprusoff. When the team in front of him scores 1 goal in the last two games...
If someone can prove that goalies that play 70+ games suffer a larger drop in save percentage in the playoffs than goalies playing less than 70 games than I'll buy the theory.
Until then it's just cherry picking.