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Goaltenders of the Decade: Regular Season
The first question in my mind is which goaltenders have played the most over the course of the decade? I divided the total number of minutes played by nine seasons and 82 games to come up with t...
Do Goalies Need to Face Shots in Order to Stop Shots?
Rich Pollock asked me an interesting question the other day: "I was watching the Sens today, and the announcers kept saying that Leclaire hadn't seen any shots in the second and that goalies need ac...
All-Time Shutout Leader: Martin Brodeur vs Terry Sawchuk
When I started following sports more than 25 years ago, there were records that seemed unbreakable to me: Bob Beamon's 29-foot 2.5-inch long jump in the Mexico City Olympics; Roger Maris hitting 61 ho...
Shootouts: Goaltender True Talent
As an add-on to my previous piece in shooter talent, I wanted to apply the same methodology to goaltender performance on shootouts. First, let's see if performance in 2005-06 predicted future pe...
The Leafs' PK: Does it suck this much?
I won't keep you in suspense. Yes, it does. Toronto actually spends a below-average amount of time at 4-on-5, but that's primarily because they give up so many goals that their penalty-kil...
Vesa Toskala: Does he really suck this much?
Vesa Toskala is a mystery to me. He's generally seen as a terrible goalie. But at even-strength, he's performed like a league-average goalie. If you believe in shot quality, he's fac...
Even-Strength Goaltender Shot Quality since the Lockout
Shot Quality is an idea that's been around for quite a while - Alan Ryder's original study is available here (PDF). I found a little bit more data than Alan had originally, so I''ve written abou...
New Puck Prospectus piece: A basic goaltending model
I wanted to start from the basics on goaltending and estimate how many wins a goaltender can be worth to his team. I looked at 5-on-5 and 4-on-5 save percentage only (no shot "quality" adjustmen...
2007-08 5v5 Goaltender Performance (Full Season)
I finally ran the full-season's worth of shot quality/goaltending statistics (see Mid-Season stats.) There was some discussion over at James Mirtle's site, with some people claiming that Evgeni Naboko...
2007-08 4v5 Goaltender Performance
Scoring rates go way up on the power-play, making it a goaltender's toughest assignment. (Ray Emery fighting Andrew Peters doesn't count.) To quantify the difference, here's the same plot as we had fo...
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