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Originally Posted by djsFlames
Kipper was the best goalie on the planet for a couple years and he is 5'11.
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Milka Kiprusoff's listed playing-height was 6'1".
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Goaltending didn't suddenly become solely contingent on being big in 15 years.
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Not suddenly, but there is little question that size is a really important aspect of the position over the course of the last fifteen years. I think it is pretty clearly more important today than it was when Kiprusoff played. But the biggest difference between now and then is not size; it is the fact that all the big goalies who make it are just as agile, as quick, and as prescient as the smaller guys who don't.
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I think some guys around the game are leaning too heavily into that just because some big guys won the Vezina recently.
Talent comes in many shapes and sizes.
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It is not just "some big guys." It is the easily quantifiable majority of NHL goalies in today's game. Talent alone is not enough; talent with size is the golden ticket, which explains precisely why so few smaller goalies become little more than NHL journeymen.
I am rooting for Wolf, but I don't see how it serves anyone's purpose to remain willfully ignorant about the current history of NHL goalies.
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