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Originally Posted by Crown Royal
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.
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And what goals are let in. Smith’s and often Hiller’s softies were just killer goals. I liked Talbot this year but he picked a bad game to be mediocre and Rittich picked the same game to suck badly.