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It's the most important position in the game and it's been enough to cost teams a playoff spot and get average to mediocre teams into the playoffs. That's the different between us and Florida right now. They're not really better than us, it's just the goaltending they've had is better than the goaltending we've had that's for damn sure.You really have to be utterly insane to suggest that goaltending isn’t the number one reason why we’re going miss the playoffs. Insane.
And a few years ago, people were blaming Marty and Hedberg (and it certainly was valid, don't get me wrong) for costing us a playoff spot, yet we also had a bottom 3 offense those years. Now we have a top 20 (maybe even a top 16-17?) offense, we're barely in the lower half of the league in goals scored, but our goals against also isn't that good (it's not terrible either) and it's not like we allow the most shots in the league to the point where poor goaltending isn't a factor since we allow a zillion shots to begin with.