Playoff Appearances for Goalies

Here's the thing about "playoff series" buckets: this table kind of suggests a gradual increase and gradual correlation between "NHL GP" and "number of playoffs GP", but of course, we understand that EVERY team has at least 4 playoff games, and 4-7 drops off significantly. Like, a goalie with 31gp will play 5 of 7 games, yeah?

Assuming equal 50-50 odds for every team:
series goes 4 games: = 12.50%
series goes 5 games: = 25.00%
series goes 6 games: = 31.25%
series goes 7 games: = 31.25%

So we see the average playoff series goes 5.8125 games.

And when a goalie who plays 31 games can go 5 of 5.8125 games, then surely we see how this rule that tries to give a linear value to each game played winds up skewing HEAVILY in favor of short GP goalies.

In addition to my prior "no bucket" philosophy, I'll have a proposal for you in my first year, but for now, I can't support something that ignores the very bell curve that our entire game is based on.