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Originally Posted by Crown Royal
I think the site you looked at has 3 rows for 1995-96, a total row, a Montreal row and a Colorado row, because Roy only had 2 seasons under .910 in that time, the year of the trade and the year before it. They were sandwiched with a .918 before and .923 after
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You're right, I was.
Here's Roy from age 25-30
1990-91: .906
1991-92: .914
1992-93: .894 (Won Stanley Cup + Conn Smythe this year)
1993-94: .918
1994-95: .906
1995-96: .907 (MTL) .909 (COL) .908 overall (Won Stanley Cup this year)
1996-97: .923
Then never below .913 the rest of his career.
We forget this in 2020, but people thought Roy was done too. He let in 9 goals his last game as a Hab, FFS. He was finished!
Except he wasn't.
Now, Patrick Roy had a lot of that Michael Jordan psycho in him. I don't know if Holtby does. Maybe he's a little more Jedi Master about it than Patrick.
Holtby is playing for a spot in the Hall of Fame. He has 282 wins, and if he averages around 30 wins a year, he'll be top-20 in wins all time in four years, and by then he'll be a lock for 400.
I think the Hall of Fame is a pretty good motivator for a guy who already has a ring to go along with his fat bank account.
Markstrom isn't ever going to the Hall of Fame, unless he becomes Hasek this summer. Once he signs that contract, what's his motivation? To win a Stanley Cup for the Calgary Flames? I mean, I guess, but I couldn't even keep a straight face writing it out, which would seem to bode poorly.