from Mike Zeisberger at the National Post,

If the mark of a starting playoff goalie is the number of times he’s left his fingerprints on the Stanley Cup, isn’t it time Corey Crawford earns some much-deserved respect?

No, the Chicago Blackhawks goalie has never led Canada to an Olympic gold medal like the Montreal Canadiens’ Carey Price. He isn’t as stylish off the ice as the New York Rangers’ Henrik Lundqvist, who helped Sweden to the title at the 2006 Winter Games. He’s never won a Vezina Trophy like Price, Lundqvist, the Boston Bruins’ Tuukka Rask, Sergei Bobrovsky of the Columbus Blue Jackets or the Washington Capitals’ Braden Holtby.

He can be a speed wobble on blades, as was the case two years ago when he faltered in a first-round series against the Nashville Predators, temporarily taking a seat on the end of the bench in favour of Scott Darling.

But come crunch time — when the Cup is on the line and the exhausting two-month grind known as the playoffs is coming to an end — there is no one his fellow Blackhawks would rather see in their crease than Crawford.

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