BraveCanadian
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- Jun 30, 2010
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Good case, seriously, but I have to ask about this part. How is a goalie shrugging off his personal numbers (i.e. sometimes being OK with allowing a goal) ever a good thing for his team?
On the other hand, how is taking your personal numbers very seriously a bad thing for the team? I mean, it's 100% apparent how a forward or a defenseman can play for themselves and hurt the team, but how can a goalie do it? By stopping the puck more often? that helps the team, I thought.
Of course a goalie stopping the puck more often is better.
However, guys like Fuhr and Osgood are a good thing on a team that is going to play an offensive style or give up fewer but possibly higher quality chances because if you have (a recent example like) Jonas Gustavsson who starts staring down his defensemen and breaking sticks over the net because he gets left out to dry on occasion... he is losing focus and your team isn't functioning well together.