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Originally Posted by TheDevilMadeMe
Of course, it helped. Colorado's defense was excellent, but Roy was the most important part. By game 6, Alex Mogilny had basically given up...
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Oh, I'm aware. I just think that people using how many goals a team scores as the only level of "team support" (or vice versa, how many goals the other team scores as the sole measure of a goalie's performance) to be misleading.
As you're fond of pointing out, Hasek got more goal support (2.76 per game compared to 2.52 in the regular season) in the '99 playoffs. But Buffalo also allowed more shots (31.3/game compared to 30.0 in the regular season), took more penalties (5.6 times shorthanded/game compared to 4.9), and allowed more shots on the PK (7.7/game to 6.4), so I don't think it's reasonable to conclude that his team played much better in the playoffs.