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Originally Posted by claude boivin lives
Well, depending on how good your backup is in the first place, you're more than likely ****ed no matter how you slice it.
edit: perhaps I didn't state that clearly enough...what I'm saying is, if your starter goes down with a significant injury...and your backup goalie isn't a very good one...you're going to be rather ****ed whether that backup has played 10 games or 30.
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But you have to prepare as well as possible for that contingency. In the playoffs...you're effed. However, if you can patch it together for 10 games in the regular season you're fine and it's not a big deal. If you're backup is so out of game shape that you're looking at 2-8 or something, that's a big deal.
Maximizing production over an 82 game schedule does not necessarily mean going with no. 1 every time you can.