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I do not believe that anyone is ignoring Bernie Parent, or not giving him his due. In his era he was at or near the top. You won't find many knowledgable paople that think otherwise.
It is difficult to compare goalies over the years. Coaching, rule changes, and equipment have all made goalies better. But over ten to fifteen year spans gaolies can be compared.
ENOUGH GOALIE TALK!
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Fan numbers (lifted from Bill Houston on The Globe and Mail website)
Cup audiences
For Game 6, CBC drew its largest audience of the playoffs, 2.739 million viewers.
Over six games, the CBC averaged 2.3 million viewers, down 8 per cent from last year's five-game average of 2.5 million (Anaheim Ducks-Ottawa Senators).
In the last all-U.S. Cup final, the average audience was 1.51 million (2003, Anaheim-New Jersey Devils, seven games).
RDS had its largest non-Montreal Canadiens audience of the postseason, 858,000 viewers, and averaged 738,000 over the six games, up 20 per cent over its five-game average in 2007.
NBC drew an average audience of 6.8 million viewers, the most-watched sixth game in the U.S. since 1995.
NBC earned a national rating of 4.0 (percentage of potential U.S. households tuned in), which was a 111-per-cent increase over the last Game 6 (Edmonton Oilers-Carolina Hurricanes, 2006).
The network's average for its four telecasts of the final was 3.2, tops since 2002 (Carolina-Detroit, 3.6, three telecasts).
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