The Stanley Cup Final has served as the stage for epic goaltending duels over the years.Colossal showdowns between Patrick Roy and Martin Brodeur in 2001 or Dominik Hasek and Ed Belfour in 1999 immediately spring to mind. More recently, in the salary-cap era, we’ve seen Tim Thomas versus Roberto Luongo in 2011, Jonathan Quick versus Henrik Lundqvist in 2014, and Andrei Vasilevskiy versus Carey Price in 2021.This year’s Cup final will not be joining the list.The Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes have thrilled us for four straight games to open the series, breaking records for comebacks and lead changes nightly. They’ve combined for the second-most goals ever through four games of a Cup final.It’s fair to say the goalies are not having a good time.On Tuesday night, Vegas’ Carter Hart became the first goalie in NHL history to allow four or more goals in each of the first four games of a Cup final. Carolina’s netminders haven’t fared much better. Frederik Andersen took the night off in Game 4 after allowing 12 goals through the first eight periods of the series, and Brandon Bussi won the first start of his playoff career despite posting an .857 save percentage.Through four games, this is statistically the worst goaltended Stanley Cup Final in the salary-cap era.Since 2006, no final has had a combined save percentage lower than .877, but this year’s is well below that at an almost unfathomable .855. To find a combined save percentage lower than that, you have to go back to 1973, before the last maskless goalie had retired from the NHL.In this era of hockey, we’ve never seen pucks find the net at this high a rate with the Stanley Cup on the line.