goaltenders Stories - The Copper & Blue
Tuesday Night Link Dump & Open Thread
The season's over. Now what? (The question we are all asking...) While the fact that the season is finished sinks in, there is quite a lot to think about - including the real impact of the 2010 - 11 season [Tampa Tribune], or on a less uplifting note, where all of the UFAs / RFAs will end up....
Goaltending 'Quality Starts' (via Hockey Prospectus) Explained and Applied to the 2010-2011 Islanders
[A Mikb and Keith Joint] Hockey Prospectus has released their annual "Quality Starts" metric. Often, we are fumbling through some significant gaps in statistical data in our analysis of goaltender play. There are several confounds that can arise including PP/PK, team defense and injury. It does...
Testing Ken Holland
Last year, Tyler over at mc79hockey.com included a quote by Red Wings GM Ken Holland in an article he wrote about the goaltending market: My feeling is if you can get one of the five or six best goalies in the league you can spend the money. We can’t get into those guys, and the difference...
The (Almost) Top Fifty Goalies Over The Past Three Seasons
During the present kerfuffle over the Nikolai Khabibulin signing, one of the points consistently raised is that he was the best available option and that he will be, at worst, a top-fifteen NHL goaltender if he's healthy. One of the points raised on the opposite end of the spectrum is that there...
Proof That There's Still Stuff to Talk About in August
I launched this blog in April; it was curious timing, given that the Oilers had already finished their season, and summer was approaching rapidly. I did it because I was in trade school at the time and consequently had a bunch of time and very little to do with it. Still, it's been challenging, the...
Redundancy
In 2007-08, the Edmonton Oilers employed a two-goaltender system for the third time in the MacTavish/Lowe era, and for the second time, it was a decision forced on the team by a starter's regression (Roloson, Salo in 2003-04) and a better than expected performance by the back-up (Garon, Conklin in...
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