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Originally Posted by getbak
Yup, for a long time, people kept saying you had to draft your starting goalie if you wanted to win the Cup because Tim Thomas was the last SC winning goalie who wasn't drafted by his team, and Osgood in 2008 was the last SC winning goalie who wasn't playing for his only NHL team.
Then, Kuemper and Hill won the last 2 Cups, so no one brings that up anymore.
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My memory is dwindling with age but I think it was the Hawks that started the ‘don’t spend money on your goalie’ line of thinking. It was obviously a great theory*.
* great theory provided you had hjalmarsson and Seabrook and Keith and byfuglein. And also Kane and toews and sharp…