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Originally Posted by OptimalTates
Gone are the days of Broduer and Kiprsuoff playing 80 out of 82 games. Shesterkin's 52 starts was 13th in the league (12 if you don't include Fleury's combined starts between two teams). Unless the argument is there are only like 5 NHL starters now, I'm not sure how you can't quantify him as the starter. Though I do think the less games he plays, the more it should hurt his consideration for the Hart.
Also I don't think the Vezina will be particular close, and unlike any media bias argument, the Vezina is voted on by the GMs.
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You don't need to play 80 games but 50ish is almost a platoon goalie.
When there are goalies who played 60-70 games with similar stats for me a 50 game guy who played 60% of his team's minutes shouldn't be in the conversation unless his stat line was on another planet which it wasn't. But for sure he will win being a NY player