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Old 11-24-2021, 06:40 PM   #253
Jay Random
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Originally Posted by looooob View Post
I was fully suckered in by that team but curious to know what some of the underlying metrics would have looked like--- clearly Iginla was in beast mode, but Turek was getting by a bit on smoke and mirrors likely
I seem to recall Turek admitting afterwards, in interviews, that he tried to change his game after signing his big contract extension, instead of just sticking to what got him there. Before the signing, he was a bargain-bin goalie who played like a multimillionaire. After, he was a multimillionaire who played like a bargain-bin goalie.

There were other factors, of course, but the Flames' season was basically over from the moment their goaltending switched off.
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