save-percentage Stories - The Copper & Blue
Will it ever end?
Apologies for the protracted absence. It was neither intended nor desired, and the proximity of my return to Frank's departure is nothing but coincidental. The Penguins are mired in a six-game losing streak. We all know this, and as we've seen in the comments here, Elmo hasn't taken the news well....
Finally, The Oilers Have Goaltending
One of the running jokes amongst Oilers fans is the lack of goaltending the Oilers have suffered from since Curtis Joseph carried them on his back in 1997 and 1998. Tommy Salo's greatest contribution to the Oilers was the return for him when he was traded to the Avs. Sure, they had that...
What Lightning fans should know about PDO
What in the world is PDO? And why should Lightning fans care? Well, given the disappointments fans have suffered this season, this statistic actually might be a sign that things could possibly get better. So, I'm all for it. Numbers are taking over hockey, if you haven't noticed. I've recently done...
Final Four Goaltenders, Hot Streaks & Save Percentage
I've come to measure success by the number of final fours a team makes. I lifted the idea of measuring team success in terms of pennants, as Lowetide does, and expanded it to include the conference finalists. By measuring team success in Final Fours, we can balance and crudely compare team...
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...
Winning Goaltenders, Save Percentage, and The Final Four
Lowetide likes to measure team success in pennants rather than Cups. Considering the amount of luck involved in a winning a Cup, there's not much less accomplishment in winning a Conference title, or in baseball parlance, a pennant. From Lowetide: Before expansion in 1967, there were only 6 teams...
Best Goaltenders In The NHL: Post-Lockout Qualifying Seasons
When I ran this list last season, it showed that there were no final four goaltenders in the top ten. This season Jaroslav Halak and Ryan Miller spoil the party. Halak's strong season puts him squarely in second place and Ryan Miller's Vezina-winning season elevated him from 18th to 10th, a feat...
Shot Quality vs. Quantity I - the winning formula(e)
I'm a bit of a slow learner, so it may be that I don't quite understand this debate between shot quality and quantity. I have always thought that a real good team lives out in the margins of both, that it will both outshoot its opposition over time, and also win the percentages battle by making...
Penalty Kill Save Percentage Update
About a month ago I looked at those goalies whose penalty kill save percentage was either very good or very bad. Not much time has passed since then, which is actually one of the reasons I decided to do an update now. In even a very small number of trials it's easy to see the tendency of most...
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