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Originally Posted by Locke
Okay, but even breakaways in hockey are 50/50 at best if they dont favour the goaltender especially if the shooter has a defencemen cutting off some of his options.
Not scoring on that breakaway isnt as egregious as people are making it out to be, that was still a hard play.
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Totally agree and it’s not even close to 50/50. The NHL career leader in shootout save percentage is Anton Khudobin at .818. If you only include goalies who have had at least 100 shootout attempts against it’s Varlamov at .752. Even the 75th best goalie in the shootout, Anti Raanta, .500. You are much more likely to not score on a breakaway than score. At least Johnny didn’t go to the backhand 5 hole attempt which he never seems to convert.