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Originally Posted by bax
To be fair Raanta has always been considered a great goalie, just made of glass. Rask and Bishop have been some of the best goalies in the league for the last 5 years. Grubauer was highly thought of and never had a chance to be a starter until Colorado.
As for the backups Halak has been great for a number of years, Khudobin is proving these playoffs why he always ranks highly in these goalie analytics and Francouz was great in the KHL and transferred that over into in the NHL.
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The point is that it is almost impossible to separate the goalie from the team. When great defensive teams have 2 goalies in the top 15 for stats, you have to assume that a significant portion of that is team-related. Especially when FOUR teams fall into that scenario - statistically, that is extremely unlikely for it not to be the case.