Best playoff performance individually since 2000?

[TheDevilMadeMe]

Giguere's save % in the 2003 finals was .910 - basically league average (regular season league average was .909 that year). And that was against a team that didn't really play a style to generate high shooting percentages.

So "dominant through 3 rounds; average in the finals" applies to Giguere, as much as it does a few others here.

 

[Michael Farkas]

And, to put a small amount of kindling on the fire...he was completely untested in the West Final as Minnesota had one offensive player acting alone...otherwise, that series was two teams who just took turns dumping 50-pound bags of sand on the rink...Anaheim could score one, and that was enough. Not that Giguere didn't make saves, but in the two series where you'd expect him to be tested, he a) wasn't b) was not noteworthy in a positive way...

Even the affable John Davidson rightfully called him out during the SCF series...

 

[TheDevilMadeMe]

And, to put a small amount of kindling on the fire...he was completely untested in the West Final as Minnesota had one offensive player acting alone...otherwise, that series was two teams who just took turns dumping 50-pound bags of sand on the rink...Anaheim could score one, and that was enough. Not that Giguere didn't make saves, but in the two series where you'd expect him to be tested, he a) wasn't b) was not noteworthy in a positive way...

Even the affable John Davidson rightfully called him out during the SCF series...

I agree with you. I mean, credit to Giguere for not falling asleep out there and doing his job against Minnesota, more or less flawlessly, but the Wild crashed down to earth big time after the Vancouver series.

Giguere was indeed amazing against Detroit and Dallas by all accounts, however.

 

[Michael Farkas]

Yeah, I give him a lot of credit for the Detroit series, for sure, and in particular. Expectations probably helped with that. The rest of the playoffs wasn't overly noteworthy to me at the time, and it didn't age any better. I can't tell which performance gets overhyped here more: this 2003 Giguere one or the 2011 Thomas one. I think I'm probably the only person in the world that dislikes both of these in terms of their hype and I'm content with that, as I understand their appeal to others...but it's still a little mystifying that there isn't more of a push for Quick's performance in 2012, which - to me - was significantly better than the other two that I just mentioned...namely, because he didn't blow at any point. And you absolutely can't say that about '03 or '11...

I don't know if it's just a trophy grab or what, but I'll double down on my lonely island here and say, I don't even know what the '03 and '11 performances have even on Fleury's '08 run...

Fight me, irl.