Canes Country · Dec 14, 2022
About Last Night: The Pyotr Kochetkov Show
Photo by Dave Reginek/NHLI via Getty ImagesAsk anybody in the hockey world what the most important position in the sport is and you’ll get the same, resounding answer: Goaltending.
Goaltending is a fix-it patch that will cover up the majority of a team’s issues, but without reliable goaltending, it doesn’t matter if you have the best goal scorers in the game or if you allow less than 20 shots a game.
It all comes down to the goaltending. Even just average goaltending can take a team far. but if you start getting good to truly elite goaltending, that’s when you become the team to beat.
Pyotr Kochetkov is giving that kind of performance to the Carolina Hurricanes.