No position in all of sports is as unpredictable as goaltending.
A wise man did once say “Goalie are Voodoo” for a reason, after all. The sheer randomness confined between the pipes of a hockey game is all too unique to the sport itself and bears influence from a number of factors, often varying by the second.
Can you explain how Devyn Dubnyk went from waiver fodder in Edmonton to a perennial Vezina contender in Minnesota? Can you decipher how Andrew Hammond single-handedly dragged the Ottawa Senators into the playoffs one year before drifting off into hockey’s abyss the next?