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> In 2018, the accountant Scott Foster stopped all seven shots he faced to preserve a win for the Chicago Blackhawks. In 2020, the Zamboni driver David Ayres famously recorded the first-ever win for an EBUG as he denied his hometown Maple Leafs for half a game.

If Foster won as EBUG in 2018, how can Ayres have had the first-ever EBUG win in 2020?

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AFAIK, the winning goalie is the goalie that's in net when the "winning" goal was scored. So, if your team wins 4-1,the winning goalie is the goalie that was in when their team scored the second goal.

The implication with Foster seems to be that he came in after this winning goal was scored. Ayres, on the other hand, must have had the winning goal scored while he was on the ice.

Pitching in baseball follows a similar rule: the pitcher that gives up the winning run is awarded the loss, the last pitcher to pitch for the winning team is awarded the win.

Yep. Ayres, amusingly, got the win because he allowed two goals after coming in with a 3-1 scoreline. (It was 4-1 by the time he allowed a goal.) Foster, holding a lead, never allowed a goal, and thus didn't become the goalie of record.

The “winning” goalie, for statistical purposes, is the one who was in net when the go-ahead goal was scored.

It’s similar to baseball. A goalie can come in and preserve a win but only gets credited with the W if they’re in goal when the winning goal is scored. So an EBUG can win without receiving the W in the stats column.

I don't get it, all of these posts mentioning David Ayres never say that he played for the Carolina Hurricanes that game. We still revere him down here in North Carolina. Always the underdog, my Canes... but we're putting on a clinic this playoffs!

Maybe it's the first away-team win for an EBUG

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