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Originally Posted by The Cobra
Backups on good teams often play against poorer competition.
If for a minute you think the likes of Bujaj, Enroth, Scrivens etc. were leading the Kings to a SC, you are likely mistaken.
There is more to SC winning goaltending than having a fancy save percentage during the regular season in part time duty against poor competition.
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When they actually won the Cup, the backups played 38 games, so hardly cherry picking against only soft teams. They averaged 0.933 save percentage to Quick's 0.915 in the regular season and 0.911 in the post-season. It was the best defensive team in at least the past 5 years and that had more to do with the team than the goalie.
Obviously Quick had a very good reputation but this was closer to a late-Osgood situation where any reasonable goalie in net would have won the Cup. Just needed a goalie not to lose, they didn't need one to win.