Can Average Goalies Win the Stanley Cup? NHL Debate

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00:00So, we were talking about Carver High believes that you can win a Stanley Cup now with an

00:11average goalie.

00:12You do not need a great goaltender to win the Stanley Cup.

00:16And I had my druthers on that answer.

00:18I don't oppose his view.

00:21He rattled off Bennington and Kemper and Logan and Thompson and these guys, Matt Murray winning

00:28a couple of Stanley Cups.

00:30We could go on and on with goalies.

00:33But do you believe the league has changed?

00:35I went to the Penguin game the other night in Pittsburgh on Saturday night and they are

00:40horrible.

00:45They have no talent at all besides Grothby, Mugg, and Letang and maybe Rust, have no goaltending.

00:52And some fan told me leaving the game, Sullivan sucks, they got to fire him.

00:56I'm like, he won two Stanley Cups.

00:58They have no talent.

00:59What do you want him to do?

01:00How do you feel about the NHL today with regards to goalies?

01:05I honestly think it's more about the system.

01:08Like I know what Carver High is bringing to the table here and it makes a lot of sense.

01:11But like, show me a good goalie, show me a good system, that conversation.

01:15I think it's a fair thing to bring up because then even like you look at Sergey Bobrovsky

01:19for all these years, we're like, this is the worst contract in hockey and look at what

01:22he did last spring.

01:23Look what he did the year before, right?

01:24He was incredible.

01:25Obviously, a big reason why the Florida Panthers finally pushed through in the Stanley Cup

01:29playoffs and win a Stanley Cup.

01:31So like, I don't think there's a perfect science to it.

01:33But I think in a salary cap world, if you can get a goalie that makes two, three million

01:38bucks per season and excel in your system, I think you're sitting pretty.

01:42But if you're asking me right now, if I want an Aiden Hill or an Andrei Vasilevsky in the

01:46Stanley Cup final, I will go with Vassie.

01:48But I understand the reasoning behind it, man, the salary cap, right?

01:52If you can get a guy cheap on the value, I think it's great.