No argument that good goaltending is important in any series! Of course it is! The argument is about whether the Leafs "need" an elite goalie. They don't. And this playoff, as well as most playoffs, have proven it!
You're misrepresenting what I'm saying. Do you think I don't believe goaltending is important? Especially in a 3 game sample? Of course it is. The point is that two similarly performing goalies over the last several seasons have vastly different numbers in the first three games of this series. Which is normal. That's goaltending in small samples.
I responded to someone saying that no one ever said Skinner was a good goalie. And the past two pages have used Skinner as evidence that they need to get a goalie. You then pretended that I said that goaltending in a three game sample doesn't matter.
And beyond, praying to Jesus, is there a way to get the former with any degree of skill?
And man, the amount of "great" goalies out there that have had shit playoff performances in the past few years is crazy high. An elite big money d or C is gonna control possession in a 7 game sample, even if they aren't scoring. You will benefit from them in some way regardless of their counting stats. A big money goalie in a 7 game sample can be anything really. That is not enough games to judge a goalie nor is it enough games to EXPECT a certain level of performance. It's just not a position I'm into spending much cap space on. I think there's better value elsewhere.
Prior to this season Bobrovsky hadn't had an elite season since 2016-2017 and was looked at as a cap liability. He was laughed at by everyone here. That's a larger sample of mediocrity than this one year. We are all gonna pretend we've been Bobrovsky stans for years now and predicted this would happen? And they never would have won a cup if they didn't dedicate 10m to him? Is that what we're going with?
This is the point.
