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Old 12-26-2020, 02:21 PM   #89
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Kipper was the best goalie on the planet for a couple years and he is 5'11.
???

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.

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.

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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