One can argue that Roy had its best regular season as a Av.
you mean '02? during those vezina winning seasons of '89, '90, and '92, he led the league in SV% by silly margins (whereas he was .06% behind theodore in '02).
during roy's regular season peak, he usually played as many games as anyone (he was 15th in games played in '02), and look at his finishes and margins of victory:
1989 (to be fair he's a distant 12th in GP this season, 2nd in wins)
Save Percentage
1. Patrick Roy*-MTL .908
2. Jon Casey-MNS .900
Goals Against Average
1. Patrick Roy*-MTL 2.47
2. Mike Vernon-CGY 2.65
1990 (5th in GP, 1st in wins)
Save Percentage
1. Patrick Roy*-MTL .912
2. Mike Liut-2TM .905
Goals Against Average
1. Mike Liut-2TM 2.53
2. Patrick Roy*-MTL 2.53
3. Reggie Lemelin-BOS 2.81
1992 (2nd in GP, 3rd in wins)
Save Percentage
1. Patrick Roy*-MTL .914
2. Bob Essensa-WIN .910
Goals Against Average
1. Patrick Roy*-MTL 2.36
2. Ed Belfour*-CHI 2.70
2002 (15th in GP, 8th in wins)
Save Percentage
1. Jose Theodore-MTL .931
2. Patrick Roy*-COL .925
3. Roman Cechmanek-PHI .921
Goals Against Average
1. Patrick Roy*-COL 1.94
2. Roman Cechmanek-PHI 2.05
i think '92 is unmistakably his best regular season, and up there as one of the handful of absolute greatest regular season goaltending seasons of all time.
you could arguably talk about '02 alongside '88, '89, '90, and '94, but i would probably put it third on that list. and not to take anything away from that great late career blip, because it was awesome.