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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
No offences but that attempted stat is something I consider to be of little to zero use.
One (1) starting goalie wins the Stanley cup pretty much every year, and most eligible goalies don’t even hit that high threshold of games played.
So many other things have to happen to win a cup that don’t have a thing to do with goaltending.
You likely can’t even correlate games played to even making the playoffs in a meaningful way.
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To each their own. For me, the most relevant stat is which team manages to cobble together 16 playoff wins in a year. If 13 or 14 of the last 15 have something in common, it's pretty reasonable to be interested. This year's Flames are trending to follow the path of the one or two exceptions.
Cap era: 107 teams had goalies start >61 reg season games; 1 cup winner, 2 finalists. 163 >57gs; 2 cup winners, ~6 finalists.
Looking at 'elite workhorse ' goalies, their best playoff success almost always comes in years they start relatively fewer games:
- Lundqvist best three playoff years came when he started 62, 62, and 46. Never made it past the 2nd round the six times he started more than 62.
- Luongo 60 in '11 (finals)
- in '12 Brodeur started only 59 that year (he was 39 yo...) - of course he also won 2 cups starting over 70 games.
- other than the first cup year, Quick never advanced past the first round in the five other instances he started >60
- Holtby played 54 the year they won the cup. 4 times he played 59+ and never made it past 2nd round.
- Rinne made the finals after playing 61. 4 times he played more and never made it past 2nd round.
- Kipper played 38 in the cup run year. Never made it out of the first round again over seven years of 70+