Good Andy/Bad Andy

[Nicomo Cosca]

(10-06-2017, 03:24 PM)PDub80 Wrote: I see where you're coming from, but I disagree from the stand point of goalies don't influence the game as much in terms of time because they don't have the puck. YES, stopping goals is important, but time on task with the ball/puck is vastly different between goalie and QB. That's like saying the catcher in baseball is the most important because without him the game would take days to play because there's no one to stop the ball from flying by.

Perhaps I should have said INFLUENTIAL rather than important. On all but a few plays a game (special teams) the QB has the ball first, or decides to change the play, and what he does with it makes that the most INFLUENTIAL position in sports.

I can show you more games where a hockey goalie has been trash, below avg, or average and their team still won more than I can a Quarterback being equally as bad, below avg, or avg and still winning.

Sure a poor goalie can win some games here and there with a good enough team in front of him, but a mediocre/bad goalie ain't winning a Stanley Cup very often. It takes 16 wins to do so. Hardest trophy to win in all of sports. I've seen plenty of mediocre QBs win SB's with dominant defenses and running games though. To me they're two most important/influential positions, and are pretty close. But we can agree to disagree.