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Message: [QUOTE="Cowtown, post: 4655294, member: 2350"] C'mon, Boston (whom I dislike immensely) is not a "fraud." Frauds don't go 65-12-5. The problem is the regular season and the playoffs are two different seasons with two different rule books, and two different playing styles. And make no mistake, the league wants it that way to push the inverted snobbery that says "This is a man's game, and real men don't need rule books." As for the hot goalie, there's a lot more going on out there. I think you're only seeing the actual saves themselves. Not the bad angle shot selection that comes from the middle-out defense that keeps the puck and shooters at bad angles, the litany of painful sacrifices in all the blocked shots, the "panic speed" back-checking, and the defense-first line-matching and even player-matching; e.g., McDavid never saw the ice without Doughty in his grill. [/QUOTE]