The position of goaltending has plagued the city of Philadelphia for decades. Whether it is letting a future Hall-of-Famer just be a passerby through the organization or just never truly finding a long-term solution in between the pipes good enough to steal a game or two as the 20 skaters in front of him do everything possible to win the hockey game, it’s been an issue.
And like clockwork, last season, the failure to even come close to finishing with a respectable record boiled down to two major things: The power play not being able to do anything but maybe pass the puck around from the half boards back to the point, and the goaltending being historically terrible.