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Originally Posted by Textcritic
And I am happy to believe you the moment you manage to convince a NHL coach to adopt your 82-game schedule for his starting goalie. Until then, I don’t see anything remotely credible to suggest that fatigue is not an issue that the vast majority of goaltenders deal with.
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I agree with how you approach the first half, it is a well played argument but to me because a team, due to risk mitigation, should absolutely have 2 goalies ready to go. I think more due to disaster recovery than to impact of fatigue. We just won’t get that data, realistically.
You can’t have a backup you trust and give him 8 games. We will never know because most teams have good enough backups
The only reasonable case to play a goalie over 70 is when the gap between starter and backup is so severe (Kipper and (insert backup name here))
The question is whether the gap between Rittich and Smith is that bad. But whether it is or isn’t is, I agree, a moot point. Fortunately this team can outscore Smith’s tending, while a tight Sutter team could not.
TLDR; playing a goalie 70 plus games is too risky, because it is basically risking having one goalie. I say not due to fatigue, more due to the absurdity of effectively having only one goalie