They say in baseball that you still have to be a good player if you lose 20 Games because that means that they have the confidence in you to go out there, and it is unspoken between the player and coach that the team around him just wasn’t that good.  There is something similar in hockey as you can argue that Gilles Meloche was a really netminder and despite the fact that he is fourth all-time in Losses (351) and lost 81 more Games than he won this was a veteran of 788 Games and any Goalie who played that many games had to be good.