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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
There’s usually a pretty stark difference between the top-10 goalie lists at the start and end of each year. Voodoo.
Holtby wasn’t the starter for playoff game 1 of the Caps cup run.
The Pens used both Murray and Fleury.
Hard to say if Crawford is underrated, but he was rarely mentioned in the elite tier with Lundqvist, Price, Bobrovsky
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It's not necessarily that goalies are voodoo, but more that the gap between average, good and great is not that much.
Look at the 2018-19 season as it was the last full season. The difference between Martin Jones .896 and Markstrom's .912 was just 10 goals over a full season and the two played fewer than 2 minutes difference in ice-time. Whether a goalie is good or not more often than not depends on their fit with the team and the number of quality chances against.