Comments for Energy Drain at http://hockey.dobbersports.com , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://hockey.dobbersports.com Fri, 24 May 2013 11:43:27 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/justin-goldman/2790-energy-drain#comment-6030 Your analysis of Lou is bang on. Brodeur may have set the bar too high for other tenders when the Devils were winning Cups and he was playing 70games per, but Brodeurs style is much less taxing than that of a Luongo,Kipper,Theodore. Throw in the fact he traditionally faced less shots (and of lower quality)during the Devils best years, not to mention the fact their travel schedule is a far cry from what the west coast teams have to deal with. - Larry Fri, 14 May 2010 09:17:37 +0100 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/justin-goldman/2790-energy-drain#comment-5962 No mention of Fleury as a workhorse? While I wouldnt put him on the same level as Lu or Nabokov in terms of talent - he does have the only Cup ring of the three, plus he's been there twice already. He started one fewer game than Luongo this year. Of the 8 teams that made the second round, 4 of them had goailes who played in at least 63 games this year. Not disagreeing with your point about teams needing to have two capable goalies - but it is (almost) as easy to argue the opposing viewpoint regarding the correlation between regular season activity and playoff fatigue/failure using the same information. Its easy to point out that workhorse goalies have been eliminated as 3 of the first 8 series featured a workhorse vs workhorse matchup (SJ/COL, DET/PHX, LA/VAN). Two series' featured light/medium duty vs light/medium duty (MTL/WAS and CHI/NSH) so there was bound to be two more of these ligher load goalies who moved on. Of the 3 other series, the light duty goalies went 2-1 with miller and broduer getting bumped. I seem to recall reading an article on DH recently about how only 3 of the 15 goales allowed by Marty were 'soft'. Didnt see much of the BOS/BUF series so cant really comment there. I just dont see the numbers as being that "clear". - Mike Tue, 11 May 2010 12:02:26 +0100 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/justin-goldman/2790-energy-drain#comment-5945 Hey Justin glad you recognize that there was a correlation between playoff performance and number of regular season starts... you beat me to it in my article today... - Ryan Ma Tue, 11 May 2010 01:16:43 +0100