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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
- 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.
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You're just cherry picking here, and poorly.
He made the Stanley Cup final in 2014 with 63 gp, his best season yet. Obviously the two game difference between 63 GP (2014) and 65 GP (2016, lost in the first round to future champion the Penguins) makes all the difference?
Also, his GP was down in 2015 because of a neck injury that had him out for 2 months, and in 2017 again because he had a knee injury.
By your logic, maybe someone should run over Rittich because it's actually better for playoff success for a goalie to be injured and not playing during the season.
EDIT: making it past the 2nd round is also completely arbitrary way of measuring goalies performance.
How about Sv%?
2011 (68 gp): .923
2012 (62 gp): .928
2013 (43 gp): .926
2014 (63 gp): .920
2015 (46 gp): .922
2016 (65 gp): .920
2017 (57 gp): .910
Other than "Henrik Lundqvist at his prime was a fricking machine", I don't see a pattern there.