It’s interesting how we have seen the progression of players over the years but at the same time the regression and importance of star goaltenders decline. In fact, it’s not about how good your starter is, but how good your backup and goaltending depth is. Gone are the years where Roy, Belfour, brodeur, kipper, Lundqvist churned out 65+ games a year. If you have aspirations of winning a cup, your starter needs to be at 55 gp or less. Anything more is too taxing and catches up at some point in the playoffs. When I see Cup winning teams win with Adin hill, binnington, kuemper I’m reminded, a low caphit goalie who can just be good and not great can win to.
Sure vasilevsky and bob won cups with high cap hits, but they also had superior defence and defensive minded forwards to help shelter them.
Where you should invest is defence, defence and forwards that can play defence can shelter the weaker aspects of your team.