Goalies are Overrated: Current hype edition

Two Issues from Tonight.
1) If a starting goalie gets wins and then his backup comes in and also gets wins, how can the starter be credited with being the key piece?

This happened somewhat last year with Cam Talbot of the Rangers. Lundquist and the Rangers started playing well and getting wins. Lundquist got hurt and Talbot comes in and LOSES thus proving the team NEEDS and is KEYED by Lundquist - OH WAIT, he doesn't lose - HE WINS! So much so that a team signed him in the off-season as their new starter. The Rangers kept their momentum with Talbot and Lundquist. Yet Lundquist got a lot of hype for the Rangers' successes.

This season it is Carey Price - single most-overrated player in sports at the moment. The Montreal Canadiens are playing very tight hockey. They play tight in their end and on the offensive end. They aren't giving up many breakaways and seldom odd-man rushes. They are controlling the center of the ice. It has nothing to do with the goalie. Carey Price is the starter. Some no-name guy is the back-up - Mike Condon. Who? Exactly. Both goalies have a perfect record.

If it is all on Carey Price, then how can the team perform so well with this other goalie in there?

2) Not all shots are equal. This is an anti-corsi rant as much as anti-goalie hype rant.

The Hurricanes played the Kings tonight. By the numbers, the Canes' players should have decent Corsi numbers as they generated almost double the shots of the Kings. However, the Kings won 3 - 0.

Well, obviously, it MUST BE the goalies. Jonathan Quick for the Kings MUST HAVE outplayed Cam Ward for the Canes.

It isn't true. Jonathan Quick did not have to stop opportunities that Ward couldn't stop. Just take that last goal. Lucic beating a d-man on Ward's right side and coming in on him; Lucic makes a pass to Toffoli across the ice. Toffoli buries an easy one into the back of the net.

The goal prior to that one - an badly thought blind hand-pass by Hainsey right to Anze Kopitar who then is basically one-on-one with the goalie. Kopitar does a sweet move and lifts a back-hander up and into the goal.

Quick didn't face anything like those two shots. If so, he would not have that shutout victory. Yet Quick got the First Star of the Game. Meanwhile, Toffoli got two of the Kings' three goals and gets Third Star of the Game. Seems asinine to me. The Kings are playing very good hockey right now. There are probably 22 goalies in the league right now that could get wins behind that team. And there are probably 35 goalies in the league that would have lost that game playing behind the Canes' team tonight.