No Giguerillahan oli ihan uskomaton ralli tuolloin 2003. Giguere veti 5 nollapeliä, yksin pysäytti edellisvuoden mestarin, ehkä yhden parhaimmista joukkueista ikinä(2002 Detroit sans Hasek)
"Through the first three games, the Wings outshot the Ducks 137 to 93. Corsi fanatics would go nuts over that kind of puck possession dominance. Despite the sizable shot advantage, the Wings fell victim to the spectacular goaltending of “Jiggy”, a 25-year old goaltender who was making his playoff debut. Giguere stopped 133 of those 137 shots for a remarkable .971 SV%
Giguere continued to stay in “Jiggy-mode”, dominating the #1 seeded Dallas Stars in round two, and then the Minnesota Wild in round three. In that second round series, Giguere was unreal. In Game 1 of that series, Giguere stopped 60 of 63 shots in a 5OT victory.
In the series against Minnesota, Giguere stopped every shot he faced in the first three games. Yea that’s right, he posted three consecutive shutouts, stopping all 98 shots he faced. He finally gave up a goal in Game 4, dropping his save percentage for the series to a measly
.992 SV%. The man stopped 99.2% of the shots he faced in the Western Conference Finals. Through the first three rounds, totaling 14 games, he faced 496 shots (average of 35.4 shots against/game), and stopped 476 of them, good for a .960 SV%."
The 2003 playoffs was Jean-Sebastien Giguere's coming out party. I reflect on my memory of him dominating the Western Conference.
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