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Don't blame the goalie!
It's really not that laughable. Many people in this thread have Bishop ahead of Lundqvist or right behind him.
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2093199&highlight=goalie+rankings&page=3
Bishop had a 2.06 GAA this past season. Lundqvist the past 3 seasons he's been at a 2.48, 2.25 and 2.36.
And a SV% of .926, where Hank hasn't beensince the lockout shortened year.
Eye test, stats, whatever. There is no shame in saying Bishop has surpassed Lundqvist.
That is just my opinion (which the Vezina voters happen to share, Bishop was 2nd, Lundqvist not even in the top 10), anyway. Maybe I'm just overrating Bishop coming off his best season and underrating Lundqvist coming off his worst. But that's how things work these days: what have you done for me yesterday, blah blah blah. And the Lightning for a better part of the season were struggling mightily with a bunch of injuries, and a drop in production from Stamkos.
Kucherov, Hedman and Bishop carried that team on their backs for the majority of the season.
Either way, there has been a rise in goaltending all across the league. Dallas is probably the only team in the league that doesn't have a very good goalie currently in net or in the pipeline.
Needing an elite #1C and elite #1D to be a contender has become the new needing an elite goalie.
LOL (<laughable). When Lundqvist gets Stralman back or has anything as good as Stralman, Garrison, Hedman, or Coburn in front of him, let us know. Just the same, let us know when any of Bishops' guys are as much of a hindrance as Girardi was in the reg, as well as Staal and Yandle were in the playoffs.
Eye test having complete opposite results as the stats, not exactly whatever.
I hate the trophy politics too. Trophy votes are obviously by stats/numbers, none of these people are actually guaranteed to even have taken the time to read into what they vote for. Sounds like real life politics to me as well. Holtby deserved it, but if anyone cared to pay attention to South Florida, it was a joke that Luongo wasn't nominated. There goes that.
In no way am I saying Bishop isn't worth a damn, because I defended the likes of Chris Osgood forever. They do the job regardless of how much help they have.
To all this I say for the 100th time, let's just suppose for a second just what Hasek, Roy, Belfour, Cujo, Beezer, and Richter would have done behind the luxury Brodeur had...