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Pulling The Goalie In The Stanley Cup Playoffs

06/05/2021 at 6:18pm EDT

from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe,

League wide, through the 56 games played through Friday night, teams this postseason enjoyed very limited success when yanking the goalie. Only three goals had been scored by clubs attacking six on five. Worse, the team defending those six-on-five assaults scored 19 times into the vacated net. The approximate ratio of 1:6.

Over the last three playoff seasons, to provide some comparison, the ratios have varied significantly:

2020 — 21 goals for the attacking team vs. 34 for the defending team. Approximate ratio, 2:3.

2019 — Eight goals vs. 31 goals. Approximate ratio, 1:4.

2018 — Seven goals vs. 33 goals. Approximate ratio, 1:5.

In the postseason, the added drama around those desperation goals is that they can prove the difference between a season ending, or a season extended, a team moving on to another series, or even winning the Cup

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