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Originally Posted by delayedreflex
I agree Vladar definitely needs more starts, but I think people have to pump the brakes a little on anointing him the new starter. It's a big shift going from playing once a week to 3 times a week, and there are plenty of goalies who have been stellar backups over the years who falter when given a starter's load.
I'm really hoping Vladar has the capability to be a starter, as that opens up the possibility to run 1A/1B. Even if Markstrom re-finds his game and takes back the starting net, I think it would be really beneficial to reduce his workload during the regular season so that he is more fresh for the playoffs. I think someone did some good analysis a while back showing that almost every goalie who has won a cup in the last 15 years (or something like that) played significantly fewer games in the regular season than Markstrom did last year. Markstrom is somehow still on pace to play close to 60 regular season games this year which seems totally unnecessary given Vladar's competency.
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I recall reading that long ago, and thinking at the time that it was statistically insignificant
So typically you have 5-10 goalies who play 60 games, out of 30 ish teams (now 32). Last year it was 5, and of those, 2 ( Demko and Hellebuyck) didn’t make the playoffs.
They concluded that only 2 goalies in the past decade had played over 60 games had won the cup
That is a very small sample size, and really not disproportional to the number of goalies who get that number of starts
Any year, you have about 1 in 3 to 1 in 6 goalies who play the higher number of games. 1 in 5 won the cup in the decade they looked at
Really no conclusion to be drawn from that
