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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
When they actually won the Cup, the backups played 38 games, so hardly cherry picking against only soft teams. They averaged 0.933 save percentage to Quick's 0.915 in the regular season and 0.911 in the post-season. It was the best defensive team in at least the past 5 years and that had more to do with the team than the goalie.
Obviously Quick had a very good reputation but this was closer to a late-Osgood situation where any reasonable goalie in net would have won the Cup. Just needed a goalie not to lose, they didn't need one to win.
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I don't really look at him compared to his backups. I just look at his numbers, which were perfectly fine. And if his backups were better, shouldn't they been the number one? I guess Sutter didn't see it that way. Quick, for most of the time, met the eye test and the stats. That said, way too long and it looks like it's not going to end well.