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Yeah that's no true, there are hundreds of ways to make the save in a shootout. It's not a lottery where one move is right and every other move is wrong. The goalies save more than 50% of shootouts usually and they defnitely have the edge. Try saving one vs scoring one yourself and see which you find easiest. http://www.nhl.com/ice/shootoutstats.htm?fetchKey=20152ALLSAZAll&sort=gamesPlayed&viewName=summary Aka goalies have a CLEAR advantage in shootouts, well unless that goalie happens to be Howard...

"Howard's nine shootout goals against lead the entire NHL"

FTFY

https://twitter.com/DaveLozo/status/543605178633826304

Can we please trade Howard for a bag of pucks? hell a roll of tape would do it.

Goooooooooooooose! that was almost a datsyukian backhand.

Grrrrrrrrrrreat place to turn over the puck guys.

Just banged in a rebound so not very sexy and they're playing fairly disciplined so far.

Of course but the goalie still has the advantage, it's much much easier to save a shootout than to score on one.

Much more difficult than for whom? Generally the goalie has the advantage over the shooter in a shootout situation. And maybe we can add breakaways to this btw, how many did we miss against Toronto yesterday??

No but there are breakaways and being good in the shootouts can give us an easier ride in the playoffs with home ice advantage. Playing it off as completely unimportant is just stupid.

We seriously need to start sitting Howard in the shootouts, I don't care what goalie we put in, anyone would be better.

Has Howard EVER saved 2 or 3 out of 3?

Seriously Howard is so pathetic at shootouts we might as well put a cardboard cutout in net.

Well I guess it's Howard who can't save a penalty to save his life against the brick wall Reimer that's gonna be fun.

Damn we miss the net a lot.

Lookin good for the leafs!

Yessssssss finally! Damn we're playing well tonight.

Justin Apfelstrudel.

Our PP really has gotten infinitely better since we put Z and Dats on two different units.

Lots of time left for Datsyuk to get his first curly fries ever...

A bad bad bad hockey game but such a sweeeeet win

What the hell is going on here.