As we saw in 2004, goaltenders can not win games by themselves. The best they can do is make it very difficult for you to lose the game, but they can't win it for you. You still need someone to deposit a puck or two inside the other goaltender's cage.
Does '04 still hurt? Yes, but as time has gone on, my focus has shifted away from "it was in" and that egregious trip along the boards leading to the OT goal in that same game. Lately, it's been on the fact we only scored one goal in Game 7 - and it was Craig Conroy that got it - not Iggy or Gelinas or... (did we even have any real goal scorers on that team other than those two?).
Anyway, the point is we sure could have used a Tkaclutch.
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