Two for the show: Miikka Kiprusoff and Andrew Raycroft could be this year's versions of Conn Smythe winner J.S. Giguere--the goalie who comes from nowhere to save more than the day.(NHL Playoff Preview)

Goaltending is the name of the game in the playoffs. Last spring, Mighty Ducks goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere took over the big stage and won the Conn Smythe as playoff MVP, but few people knew of him before that. The playoffs are when goalies, anonymous outside of their own area, get to show their stuff to a larger audience. This year, the spotlight should land on two in particular the Flames' Miikka Kiprusoff and the Bruins' Andrew Raycroft.

Goalies are like baseball's lefthanders, known to have their quirks (to say the least). Kiprusoff and Raycroft, however, have something in common that they don't share with their idiosyncratic predecessors and ...