I should add, in support of Kari, that he didn't play too different from this game to the last. A hot goaltender stops 50 shots because he's got a wonderful combination of ability and luck. Anytime 50 shots are fired on net, it means that several more (maybe 15-20 more) were fired at the net. Any one of these 70 or so shots towards the net could have hit anything and gone in (see Leafs Flyers game were 2 went by Esche in this fashion). A hot goalie stops what he sees and what he doesn't see (luck and position do this). But a hot goalie also never has to face a two on one where the opposing team puts the puck where they want to. Or a shooter in all alone that does the same. To be a hot goalie, you need to get all the bounces AND when the bounces don't go your way, the shooter can't hit his spot. No matter how good a goalie is, if the shooter puts it where he intended, he's not going to save it (see Lemieux vs. Hasek, glove side high, Skills challenge breakaway). In game 3, Lehtonen got all the bounces. No pucks took bad deflections on him. There were no two on ones where the shooter put it where they wanted. When he had to get accross, he would dive accross and the puck would find him. In game 4, he did little different. Just this time the puck didn't find him. It took odd caroms; the shooters hit their mark. He was still incredible. He just wasn't as lucky this time around. In fact, one could say he was rather unlucky. All the Lehtonen naysayers are in for a sore time when this boy hits the NHL for good. These nights will even out in the long run and he'll be a stud. He's the only reason this series didn't end last night and that Chicago didn't go home embarrassed.
With any other goalie in the AHL, i think the Wolves would have already been eliminated by now.
