EDMONTON — Things We (Think We) Know. Series V, Volume II.

In all of our years, we’ve never met a three-goalie system that anybody inside a hockey team liked.

Coaches, goalies, skaters, training and equipment staff… Everyone is happier with two goalies on a hockey team — at practice, at games, on the plane and in the meetings.

The Edmonton Oilers are going to run three goalies this season, the way Buffalo and Carolina have done — because of Frederik Andersen’s injury history.

“We can give (Andersen) the appropriate rest,” Bowman told Reid Wilkins on Edmonton Sports Talk. “Because we’re going to have a three-goalie system next year.”

Things We (Think We) Know

This is the dumbest thing about goaltending in the 2020’s:

We’ve all come to the realization that (at least) two goalies should roughly split an NHL regular season. Where it was once a 57-25 thing, today it’s closer to 48-36 in the new 84-game regular season.

Only 18 goalies started 50 or more games last season. Ten of those teams missed the playoffs, six others lost in Round 1.

So coaches have learned to favour two goalies, all year long. Then the playoffs start, and those same coaches run one goalie until he crashes........

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