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Hello,
I thought I'd share a new statistic for Goalies that I've been putting together: Total Game Dressed. Its obtained by adding the total games a goalie played with the total games a goalie dressed as backup only. This really gives a good picture of what tandem of goalies a team went with all season long. The most interesting numbers to emerge form this stat is for backup goalies who spent most of the season on the bench but are much more valuable to a team than their traditional stat line might tell. I believe this stat to be very helpful for backup goalies and judging their value.
I've been able to assemble the data for the past three seasons and am currently working on 2013/14. These are some of the more interesting finds for each season.
Antti Niemi and Braden Holtby are today's goalie "Ironmen." Both guys appeared in all 82 games each season for 246 straight games dressed over the past 3 seasons. This surely extends farther back to 2013/14 so I'll add to the total when I have it.
Total Games Dressed really gives you a different picture of a goalies worth, here's Carter Hutton's number from the last three seasons:
If you googled his stats, you'd see this picture:
16/17 - 29 games played
15/16 - 17 games played
14/15 - 18 games played
Based on those numbers, you'd think he was a fringe NHLer. Total games dressed presents a different picture:
16/17 - 81 games dressed
15/16 - 78 games dressed
14/15 - 82 games dressed
With these numbers, you can clearly see that Hutton was a full time NHLer these past three seasons.
2016/2017 season
Goalies who dressed in all 82 games:
Cam Ward
Kari Lehtonen
Antti Niemi
Peter Mrazek
Carter Hutton
Keith Kinkaid
Marc-Andre Fleury
Martin Jones
Aaron Dell
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Braden Holtby
Phillip Grubauer
Devan Dubnyk
Cam Talbot
Curtis McElhinney
Cater Hellebuyck
Goalies who dressed in 50+ games as a backup only:
Aaron Dell - 62 - SJS
Darcy Kuemper - 62 - Minn
Curtis McElhinney - 61 - Clb/Tor
Al Montoya - 57 - Mon
Keith Kinkaid - 56 - NJD
Anders Nilsson - 53 - Buf
Carter Hutton - 52 - STL
Some interesting notes from this season:
- Looking at Jhonas Enroth's stats one would think he had nothing to do with the 2016/2017 Anaheim Ducks. In fact he dressed in 13 regular season and 1 playoff game with the club.
- Chicago, in a quick search, looks like they only utilized 2 goalies all season. In fact Chicago dressed 5 different goalies. A season in review might miss this fact without total games dressed.
- The Dallas Stars, San Jose Sharks and Washington Capitals had a tandem of
'iron' goalies, with all 3 teams only using only 2 goalies all season.
- Vancouver, Florida and Carolina dressed the most goalies with 6 each.
- Adam Wilcox appeared in 6 games with 2 different teams, Tampa and Florida, but still didn't see any action.
- April 3rd, the Flyers dressed 3 goalies. Semborski joined the game and was dressed due to an early injury.
-Marc-Andre Fleury not only dressed in all 82 playoff games with the Penguins, he also dressed in all 25 playoff games as the Pens won the Cup. Only he and Phil Kessel dressed in every single Penguins game this season.
Source and full season stats
2015/2016 season
Goalies who dressed in all 82 games:
Martin jones
Ben Bishop
Phillip Grubauer
Braden Holtby
Michael Hutchinson
Eddie Lack
Scott Darling
Antti Niemi
Jimmy Howard
Cam Talbot
Roberto Luongo
Jhonas Enroth
Mike Condon
Keith Kinkaid
Goalies who dressed in 50+ games as backup
Jhonas Enroth - 66 - LA
Carter Hutton - 61 - NAS
Keith Kinkaid - 59 - NJD
Jonas Gustavsson - 57 - Bruins
Al Montoya - 55 - Habs
Antti Raanta - 54 - Rangers
Scott Darling - 53 - Hawks
Darcy Kuemper - 53 - Minn
Michael Hutchinson - 52 - Winn
Some interesting notes from this season:
-Niklas Backtrom dressed in 10 games with the Minnesota Wild before being traded to Calgary. He never appeared in any official time between the pipes for Minneosta this season.
-Washington was the only team who went the whole season with just dressing 2 goalies. Holtby and Grubauer. Even more interesting, Holtby and Grubauer also played the entire 2016/17 season. Washington apparently has had killer luck in net.
-May 13th the Tampa Bay Lightning dressed three goalies in one game.
-Arizona and Montreal dressed the most goalies with 6 each.
-Looking at the stats, one would think a team like the Flyers went with two goalies all season. In actuality, they dressed 5 goalies and only 2 played. The 3 unlisted backups dressed for 22 games of the 82 games that season.
2015/2016 Source and full stats
2014/2015 season:
Goalies who dressed in all 82 games:
Jhonas Enroth (83)
Mike Smith
Jonas Hiller
Anton Khudobin
Kari Lehtonen
Jonathan Quick
Carter Hutton
Corey Schneider
Cam Talbot
Marc-Andre Fleury
Antti Niemi
James Reimer
Eddie Lack
Braden Holtby
Michael Hutchinson
Goalies who dressed in 50+ games as backup only:
Justin Peters - 66 - WAS
Carter Hutton - 64 - NAS
Martin Jones - 64 - LA
Dustin Tokarski - 64 - MON
Niklas Svedberg - 58 - BOS
Reto Berra - 54 - COL
Alex Stalock - 53 - SJS
Some interesting notes from this season:
-Jhonas Enroth was traded mid-season and thus was able to dress in 83 regular season games in an 82 game schedule.
-Buffalo dressed the most goalies this season with 7
-March 3rd Florida dressed three goalies in one games
-February 16th Richard Bachman appeared in net ONLY for the shootout with the Oilers. Statistically, this was recorded by the NHL as a game played.
2014/2015 Source/Full List
Mods, I linked the full lists to the bottom of each season. If this violates the rules for some reason (the lists would be too large to repost here) then please just remove the links but I really think they're helpful for those interested. They prove that the research is correct and the facts stated here are true.
Thanks,
Jay
I thought I'd share a new statistic for Goalies that I've been putting together: Total Game Dressed. Its obtained by adding the total games a goalie played with the total games a goalie dressed as backup only. This really gives a good picture of what tandem of goalies a team went with all season long. The most interesting numbers to emerge form this stat is for backup goalies who spent most of the season on the bench but are much more valuable to a team than their traditional stat line might tell. I believe this stat to be very helpful for backup goalies and judging their value.
I've been able to assemble the data for the past three seasons and am currently working on 2013/14. These are some of the more interesting finds for each season.
Antti Niemi and Braden Holtby are today's goalie "Ironmen." Both guys appeared in all 82 games each season for 246 straight games dressed over the past 3 seasons. This surely extends farther back to 2013/14 so I'll add to the total when I have it.
Total Games Dressed really gives you a different picture of a goalies worth, here's Carter Hutton's number from the last three seasons:
If you googled his stats, you'd see this picture:
16/17 - 29 games played
15/16 - 17 games played
14/15 - 18 games played
Based on those numbers, you'd think he was a fringe NHLer. Total games dressed presents a different picture:
16/17 - 81 games dressed
15/16 - 78 games dressed
14/15 - 82 games dressed
With these numbers, you can clearly see that Hutton was a full time NHLer these past three seasons.
2016/2017 season
Goalies who dressed in all 82 games:
Cam Ward
Kari Lehtonen
Antti Niemi
Peter Mrazek
Carter Hutton
Keith Kinkaid
Marc-Andre Fleury
Martin Jones
Aaron Dell
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Braden Holtby
Phillip Grubauer
Devan Dubnyk
Cam Talbot
Curtis McElhinney
Cater Hellebuyck
Goalies who dressed in 50+ games as a backup only:
Aaron Dell - 62 - SJS
Darcy Kuemper - 62 - Minn
Curtis McElhinney - 61 - Clb/Tor
Al Montoya - 57 - Mon
Keith Kinkaid - 56 - NJD
Anders Nilsson - 53 - Buf
Carter Hutton - 52 - STL
Some interesting notes from this season:
- Looking at Jhonas Enroth's stats one would think he had nothing to do with the 2016/2017 Anaheim Ducks. In fact he dressed in 13 regular season and 1 playoff game with the club.
- Chicago, in a quick search, looks like they only utilized 2 goalies all season. In fact Chicago dressed 5 different goalies. A season in review might miss this fact without total games dressed.
- The Dallas Stars, San Jose Sharks and Washington Capitals had a tandem of
'iron' goalies, with all 3 teams only using only 2 goalies all season.
- Vancouver, Florida and Carolina dressed the most goalies with 6 each.
- Adam Wilcox appeared in 6 games with 2 different teams, Tampa and Florida, but still didn't see any action.
- April 3rd, the Flyers dressed 3 goalies. Semborski joined the game and was dressed due to an early injury.
-Marc-Andre Fleury not only dressed in all 82 playoff games with the Penguins, he also dressed in all 25 playoff games as the Pens won the Cup. Only he and Phil Kessel dressed in every single Penguins game this season.
Source and full season stats
2015/2016 season
Goalies who dressed in all 82 games:
Martin jones
Ben Bishop
Phillip Grubauer
Braden Holtby
Michael Hutchinson
Eddie Lack
Scott Darling
Antti Niemi
Jimmy Howard
Cam Talbot
Roberto Luongo
Jhonas Enroth
Mike Condon
Keith Kinkaid
Goalies who dressed in 50+ games as backup
Jhonas Enroth - 66 - LA
Carter Hutton - 61 - NAS
Keith Kinkaid - 59 - NJD
Jonas Gustavsson - 57 - Bruins
Al Montoya - 55 - Habs
Antti Raanta - 54 - Rangers
Scott Darling - 53 - Hawks
Darcy Kuemper - 53 - Minn
Michael Hutchinson - 52 - Winn
Some interesting notes from this season:
-Niklas Backtrom dressed in 10 games with the Minnesota Wild before being traded to Calgary. He never appeared in any official time between the pipes for Minneosta this season.
-Washington was the only team who went the whole season with just dressing 2 goalies. Holtby and Grubauer. Even more interesting, Holtby and Grubauer also played the entire 2016/17 season. Washington apparently has had killer luck in net.
-May 13th the Tampa Bay Lightning dressed three goalies in one game.
-Arizona and Montreal dressed the most goalies with 6 each.
-Looking at the stats, one would think a team like the Flyers went with two goalies all season. In actuality, they dressed 5 goalies and only 2 played. The 3 unlisted backups dressed for 22 games of the 82 games that season.
2015/2016 Source and full stats
2014/2015 season:
Goalies who dressed in all 82 games:
Jhonas Enroth (83)
Mike Smith
Jonas Hiller
Anton Khudobin
Kari Lehtonen
Jonathan Quick
Carter Hutton
Corey Schneider
Cam Talbot
Marc-Andre Fleury
Antti Niemi
James Reimer
Eddie Lack
Braden Holtby
Michael Hutchinson
Goalies who dressed in 50+ games as backup only:
Justin Peters - 66 - WAS
Carter Hutton - 64 - NAS
Martin Jones - 64 - LA
Dustin Tokarski - 64 - MON
Niklas Svedberg - 58 - BOS
Reto Berra - 54 - COL
Alex Stalock - 53 - SJS
Some interesting notes from this season:
-Jhonas Enroth was traded mid-season and thus was able to dress in 83 regular season games in an 82 game schedule.
-Buffalo dressed the most goalies this season with 7
-March 3rd Florida dressed three goalies in one games
-February 16th Richard Bachman appeared in net ONLY for the shootout with the Oilers. Statistically, this was recorded by the NHL as a game played.
2014/2015 Source/Full List
Mods, I linked the full lists to the bottom of each season. If this violates the rules for some reason (the lists would be too large to repost here) then please just remove the links but I really think they're helpful for those interested. They prove that the research is correct and the facts stated here are true.
Thanks,
Jay