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5. Dwayne Roloson, Minnesota Wild 6 GP, 3-3-0, 1.32 GAA, .949 save percentage With Manny Fernandez out, Rolie has started a franchise-record eight straight games and hasn't slipped. Meanwhile, the Wild have turned their attention back to suffocating defensive play. If they could have scored a few more goals for their affable goalie, he would have had four or five wins in his last six. Instead, the Wild scored only one goal in those three losses -- 2-1 vs. Columbus, 1-0 vs. Buffalo and 1-0 vs. Anaheim. In those six games, the Wild combined for just 10 goals -- five of them coming in the 5-2 win vs. Vancouver. |
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4. Mike Dunham, New York Rangers 5 GP, 4-1-0, 1.39 GAA, .948 save percentage Dunham has started 15 of the 16 games since he was acquired from Nashville. He has gone 4-1-0 in his last five, giving the Rangers some consistency in the net. Dan Blackburn played well in a rare start, losing 3-2 in Montreal while making 30 saves. Dunham, who has broken in a new set of Ranger-colored pads, has given up only seven goals (one empty-netter) in his last five games. And if not for a couple of rebounds against the Flyers, while the Rangers were leading 2-0, he would have won his fifth in a row. |
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3. Patrick Lalime, Ottawa Senators
5 GP, 4-1-0, 1.28 GAA, .940 save percentage All the talk coming out of Canada's capital has been about the team's financial situation. Meanwhile, all Lalime has done is thrown bagels at his opponents, putting together a sterling streak of three shutouts. He went on the road and beat Calgary (1-0) and Edmonton (2-0), before spanking Tampa Bay 7-0 on home ice before a capacity crowd. Give credit to team defense, as Lalime only faced 58 shots in the three games -- about as many as Marc Denis faces in four periods for the Blues Jackets. But Lalime is making the tough saves look easy with sound positioning and the tallest set of pads around. Martin Prusek beat Anaheim 3-1 to give Lalime a break, before he beat Washington 5-2. He finally slipped in Tampa, as he gave up four goals before getting pulled. |
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2. Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim 5 GP, 4-1-0, 1.78 GAA, .938 save percentage The Ducks continue to impress with solid team play, even without the services of spunky forward Andy McDonald. The Ducks are in the race in the West, as Giguere has won four of his last five games. In his last start, he gained the Ducks a point in a 2-1 OT loss vs. Minnesota, during which he made several brilliant saves and was named the third star. He was the first star in the Ducks' 1-0 win at Minnesota (33 saves), which was preceded by three key Western Conference wins -- at Columbus (4-3), vs. St. Louis (2-1) and at Colorado (5-3, 36 saves). His six shutouts tie him for the league lead with Blackhawks netminder Jocelyn Thibault. |
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1. Martin Brodeur, New Jersey Devils 5 GP, 4-0-1, 1.57 GAA, .933 save percentage He is the NHL's Player of the Week, becoming the seventh goalie to win the award this season. He won four straight games while putting together some mini-me-ish type of numbers -- a 1.25 GAA and a .950 save percentage. Incredibly, he is only five wins away from becoming the first goalie in NHL history to register 30-plus wins in eight consecutive seasons. After shutting out the Islanders 5-0 and beating the Panthers 6-2, Brodeur was strong in a key matchup vs. the 'Canes, winning 2-1. He has gone 5-0-1 in his last six games. He has 60 career shutouts and appears to be the only goalie with the chance to challenge Terry Sawchuk's once impervious mark of 103 career shutouts. |
