Departures: Ray Emery
Arrivals: Sergei Bobrovsky
Well that’s the million-dollar question…
Every year, fans, media and the entire hockey world ask, “Do the Flyers have the goaltending it takes to challenge for a Stanley Cup?” The team hasn’t had a franchise goaltender since Ron Hextall. Before that, you’d have to go all the way back to Bernie Parent to find a superstar goaltender who had the talent to lead a team to a championship. But for once, the Flyers rode a stallion to the Stanley Cup final, as the Leighton-Boucher duo helped bring the team to their first final appearance since 1997.
The good? Leighton was second to Jaroslav Halak with a .916 save percentage in the playoffs and led the league with a 2.46 goals against average. Boucher was sixth with .909 and second with 2.47. So, the two-headed monster indeed provided great goaltending.
The bad? During the regular season, Leighton was 33rd in the league with a .905 save percentage. Boucher was 43rd with .899, while Ray Emery had the same statistic as Leighton. One can argue that Boucher’s incredible perform ...
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