JD1
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Actually the best goaltending we’ve ever had has been Anderson.
He had an 18 game stint in 2011 after arriving from Col where he put up a .939 S%.... those are epic numbers.
He then followed it up a few years later playing only 24 games for us (chicken year?), but posting a sparkling .941 s% over those 24 games. That is I think the second highest s% ever posted over that many games.
4th all time in playoff S% is also indicative of some elite goaltending in the post season for this team. If we had Andy in net instead of Hasek, we would have been an even better team, and with Andy’s playoff numbers we would have been as close to a shoe in for a cup as possible.
In sum, Andy has definitely had amazing stretches of goaltending, the problem is that he has totally been a season on, season off guy.
amazing stretches of goaltending. sure. I buy that. we're talking stretches where we receive top 5 goaltending. but surrounding those stretches are equally long or longer stretches of not good enough goaltending. look at Boston. or montreal. a decade of high end goaltending apart from one off year for each of rask and price.
26 years. it' d be nice to have a 10 year stretch of a consistent top 12 or so starter that is able to play 55+ games.