Goalies and the age they become NHL regulars
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macavoy
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I agree but your only excuse why Mike Smith is elite is that he was a water boy for team Canada.
rouah
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And he has been pretty good in a shitty team like Phoenix.
macavoy
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Pretty good isn't elite. You have shown nothing to support your arguement that he is upper class.
rouah
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Upper Class: Price (925), Rask (927), Bishop (931), Bernier (924), Lundqvist (914), Bobrovsky (917), Miller (923), Hiller (918), Rinne (911), Quick (916)
Middle Class: Howard (913), Luongo (917) , Mason (915), Fleury (916), Schneider (923), Crawford (916), Niemi (911), Varlamov (925), Lehtonen (916), Smith (913)
Lower Class: Anderson (908), Halak (917), Holtby (911), Ward (891), Nabokov (902), Backstrom (899), Pavelec (904), Lack (926), Ramo (908), Scrivens (935)
Middle Class: Howard (913), Luongo (917) , Mason (915), Fleury (916), Schneider (923), Crawford (916), Niemi (911), Varlamov (925), Lehtonen (916), Smith (913)
Lower Class: Anderson (908), Halak (917), Holtby (911), Ward (891), Nabokov (902), Backstrom (899), Pavelec (904), Lack (926), Ramo (908), Scrivens (935)
rouah
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So what makes Lundqvist upper class over Smith...
Mike Smith have a worse defense in front of him.
He's playing in a way tougher division, conference.
macavoy
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You can't be this dense. But let me give it the old college try:
Olympic Gold & Silver vs olympic waterboy
Vezina trophy & 5 nominations vs 0
Not to mention in top 5 sv% for 5 years probably vs 0
I will acquiesce that Lundvist is on a downward trend and he might be in the middle class soon.
macavoy
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No, the upper guys have put up the numbers, success, etc... to prove they are upper. You've done nothing to prove Smith belongs in the upper, your argument is he was Canada's water boy and plays on a shitty team. That says nothing about him or his skills, you haven't once talked about his skills or what he brings.
worm
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