I'm currently in the french league, and in the playoffs, we played vs. a team with a REALLY good keeper, but with 1 in conditioning, and 2 in character.
In France, they apparently play 1 game a week during regular season, so this keeper had been tearing shiat apart, finishing 2nd in both GAA and S% (after my super canadian of course
).
But, during playoffs, the teams play a best of 5, during a window of 9 days, which means 1 game every other day. I was not very worried to play this keeper, due to the fact that we were gonna play so much, and there was no way they would be able to play that keeper all of those games.
As expected, he played the first game, and nearly shut us out, but 2 late goals clinched the game for us, and going in to the second I was confident their back up keeper was gonna play. But no, it was the same keeper. He shut us out, for a total of 1-1 in the series.
Prior to the 3rd game, I just had to check his fitness and found that he was at 12%, right before the game. They still played him, so I thought, "this has to be a 10-15 goal game for us". But no, again, he saved 37 out of 40 shots.
I think that's kinda weird. In my world, a player with 12% fitness should not even be eligible for play. He should have a red cross and his status should be "Exhausted" or something like that. Even though he only had 12% fitness, his status still said "OK", and he played the full game and did so really well.
Something has to be done about that!