Momentum is a tricky thing in hockey.
Coaches love to talk about it, analysts love to justify it, and players love to prop it up as an excuse.
Hockey by its very nature, though, isn’t particularly kind to momentum-driven narratives. Everyone loves a good snowball storyline: the team that picks up a win or two then keeps on winning, by the virtue – at least, that’s what people love to say – of all those wins they’ve amassed before it.
The same, they insist, goes for goaltenders. They’re on a hot streak, or they’re in a slump.