Because of scheduling and fatigue... We're dealing with humans here not video games where isn't a factor...

With a 60 game schedule you're looking at multiple 3 games on 4 nights or 4 games on 6 nights type of scheduling, goalies will be fatigued if they play that much and will have a higher chance of injury or getting too tired when it comes to playoff time. Remember teams are after the " big picture" getting a lot of regular season wins means nothing to them if it means their goalie will be tired come playoff time.

I could argue 2/3 of the starts, but when you say 50 out of 60 that's a bit far fetched (depending on the goalie), especially when they have perfectly capable backups in place. You could argue maybe Kipper who traditionally always garners a ton of starts and they don't have viable backup, but when you have a #2 like Biron, Clemmensen, Vokoun, Harding, Elliott and even C. Mason, you would think why would teams want to decide to run their goalies ragged when they have a perfectly capable backup to ease some of that pressure off?

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