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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
You and your facts.
Yeah 20% is a lot higher than I would have anticipated. Interesting. How many starters? (say 50% of games or more)
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They're all close (not surprising when I used a 30 game cut-off for a season where everyone played around 70 games).
The only one who was the overwhelming starter was Bernier in Detroit. He started 41 games compared to Howard's 27. He also got 15 of Detroit's 17 wins.
Stalock got the start in just over half of Minnesota's games and had a solid majority of their wins.
Saros played more games and more minutes than Rinne in Nashville, but Rinne actually had one more start and one more win than Saros.
Raanta started 32 games ahead of Kuemper's 29, but Hill also got 9 starts for Arizona, so no one was over 50%. Kuemper did get one extra win.
Francouz had fewer starts and fewer minutes played than Grubauer in Colorado, but he actually had 3 more wins.
Hutton and Dell were clear backups in Buffalo and San Jose, but performed nearly as well as the starters. Oddly enough, both had 12 wins on the season while their starters had 17.
Khudobin and Halak were both clearly the backups during the regular season, but both were thrust into the starter role in the playoffs.
25% of the starting goalies in the second round of the playoffs were 5'11" (the same will be true in the third round).