PADDED PUZZLE

For fantasy hockey GMs, there may not be a more difficult decision this season than who to slot between the pipes

WITH JASON CHEN

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE starting goalie? In the first season of the NHL’s salary-cap era in 2005-06, three goalies started 70-plus games – Martin Brodeur, Miikka Kiprusoff and Roberto Luongo – and there were eight others who started at least 60 games. Last season, only three goalies started at least 60 games – Juuse Saros, Alexandar Georgiev and Connor Hellebuyck. Over the past 20 years, the workhorse starting goalie whom fantasy managers could rely upon has slowly gone the way of the dodo. There’s no denying the trend: No. 1 goalies are starting fewer games than ever before, and more teams now prefer to run a 1A-1B tandem. It’s a tactic that has proven to be successful, with the latest example being the Boston Bruins’ duo of Linus Ullmark and Jeremy Swayman,…

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