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Originally Posted by FanIn80
To me, it's all about elevating your game in the playoffs. If you do a statistical analysis of Hasek and Brodeur, you'll find their regular season stats were very similar to their playoff stats. Do the same for Roy, and you'll discover he was a completely different goalie in the playoffs than he was in the regular season.
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And yet Hasek's career save percentage is better than Roy for both the Regular Season, and the Playoffs. Even if you normalize out the late 80s where Roy would have had a lower save percentage just based on how the game was played.
Hasek didn't have to elevate his game - he was always the best.
Once again if you compare career playoff numbers when they were active and in their prime in the same era (91-02 to 02-03) then it looks like this:
Hasek: .927; 2.02; 94 GP
Roy: .922; 2.21; 170 GP
Brodeur: .921; 1.84; 139 GP
Head to head, in the biggest moments, Hasek was 2-0 against Roy (1998 Olympics, 2002 Western Conference Finals).
Also the idea Roy dragged bad teams to the finals is False:
1986: Had lost in the 2nd round the year before, 87 points and finished 7th in regular season
1989: Had lost in the 2nd round the year before, 115 points and finished 2nd in the regular season
1993: Had lost in the 2nd round the year before. 102 points and finished 7th in the regular season.
1996: Were in first in division before the trade for Roy. 104 points and finished 2nd in the regular season.
2001: 118 points and won the Presidents Trophy on a team full of Hall of Famers. Finished 1st in the regular season.
So the worst a team he took to the finals finished in the regular season was 7th, and three of them were top 2 in the league. Just carried the team though.
Hasek's teams in Buffalo never finished above 95 points, and that's with him averaging a .928 save percentage and 2.17 GAA from 93-94 to 00-01. He dragged those Sabres teams to relevance.
To me this is the craziest stat. If you replace Hasek's .928 save percentage with Buffalo from 93-94 to 00-01, with Patrick Roy .915 save percentage for those same years (Roy is second best in the NHL over that time) then Buffalo would have allowed 173 more goals against, or 22 goals per season.
173 MORE GOALS AGAINST REPLACING HASEK WITH ROY.