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Originally Posted by BACKCHECK!!!
I just looked at a couple of decades worth of Vezina winners. Most of the winners in the last decade had their best sv% around 25 years old.
Even most of the “late bloomers” like Lundqvist, Miller, Kipper, etc, posted their best numbers before 30.
You have to go all the way back to the 80’s to gather even a handful of guys who hit their best sv% over the age 30. And most of those are just guys who played the tail end of their career in the dead puck era (ie Grant Fuhr’s career best numbers in St Louis, or Ed Belfour’s “peak” with the 2002 Maple Leafs).
For every Tim Thomas or Marc Andre Fleury, there’s a dozen guys who peak at 24-29.
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Is this true? I just took 3 random goalies from the best save percentage list - Lundquist best run was from 29-34. Hasek was 33 with his best season. Rask was 32 with a .929 save percentage (had his best year at a younger age with 930).
It does show that Markstrom is likely to decline in the next couple of years though and likely will be a buyout at some point.