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Originally Posted by Huysmans
With all due respect, the majority of what you said is meaningless....
save percentage means absolutely nothing if your team loses games.
Nothing.
Your team loses, you go nowhere and win nothing.... but hey, what a great save percentage!
And "no one gave him (Thomas) a shot out of high school or college"
Is that how it's supposed to work? Everyone is given a shot??
Its a BUSINESS, EARN your spot, there's no handouts or free rides.
And your assumption regarding Bill Durnan is spurious to say the least, ridiculous at most.
With your logic, Bobby Orr wouldn't have been able to do anything and would be useless with an old, solid one-piece stick like players used in the earlier days, or Tim Thomas wouldn't be able to stop a single puck wearing much smaller and heavier antiquated goaltending equipment.
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So if Patrick Roy played for the NY Islanders all his career he wouldn't be the greatest of all time because he never won a championship ?
Funny, in baseball many say Ted Williams was the greatest of all time and he never won a championship.
Baseball and hockey are team games. You can be great and still not win championships.
Save percentage is mentioned by all the great commentators, from McKenzie to Don Cherry. It's a simple concept. A goalie sees a shot, has a breakaway on him, has a two on one, and he either is better than the shot takers, or he gets beat.
Hasek, Dryden, Rask, Bishop, and Thomas were the best ever at stopping shots. Patrick Roy wasn't even in the Top 50. Roy is highly over rated.