Ask anybody in the hockey world what the most important position in the sport is and you’ll get the same, resounding answer: Goaltending.
Goaltending is a fix-it patch that will cover up the majority of a team’s issues, but without reliable goaltending, it doesn’t matter if you have the best goal scorers in the game or if you allow less than 20 shots a game.
It all comes down to the goaltending. Even just average goaltending can take a team far. but if you start getting good to truly elite goaltending, that’s when you become the team to beat.