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Originally Posted by Heavy Jack
I can’t understand how someone sees this roster as a roster trying to just get in and ride a hot goalie at just the right time. 9 shutouts isn’t a goalie stat, it’s a team stat…
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Pretty much all goalie stats ARE a reflection of a team's stats. Even the SA stat. If a team is just poor defensively and the opposition gets like tons of shots your goalie will likely gonna end up with a lower SA. The SA is also misleading if the team is defensively sound and the only shot on the net are easy saves. People look at stats as if they're baseball hitting averages and forget the Flames of the past were allowing tons of quality shots at their own goalies. This season, they've been playing a lot more zone time on the other end of the ice - which is like a 180* turnaround from the previous seasons. Heck, if the goalie keeps making saves from pucks shot in from the centerline, his save percentage can be like 100%! This is why I kept saying a team does not need a high priced Kipper-type goalie to win games. They need a team to play better in front of a goalie - and they've done that a lot more this season than most seasons.