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Originally Posted by Bingo
Well I started it by saying it wasn't a vacuum of a science experiment, so it certainly wan't cherry picking.
They were the first two goaltenders I thought of as hogging tonnes of ice time so I looked it up.
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I wasn't trying to point the finger at any individuals for cherry picking.
I just the think the argument as a whole is based on small sample sizes.
Few goalies play 70+ games to begin with, and fewer teams make it to the conference finals and beyond.
So when you have two things that aren't likely to happen combined, well the results are what one would expect.
I think in order for the fatigue argument to have merit, you need to take the stats of all the goalies that have played 70+ games and compare their regular season to the playoffs.
And then compare that to a baseline.