One of the earlier comments---about their abilities to stop the puck in clutch situations---got me thinking about their stats in "elimination" playoff games.
From the game logs, I calculated the following:
1) In playoff games in which their teams could eliminate the opposition:
Hasek: .937 Sv% on 509 shots (18 games)
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Brodeur: .926 Sv% on 1,088 shots (39 games)
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Roy: .919 Sv% on 1,597 shots (57 games)
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2) In playoff games in which their teams faced elimination:
Hasek: .929 Sv% on 434 shots (12 games)
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Roy: .926 Sv% on 664 shots (24 games)
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Brodeur: .919 Sv% on 680 shots (27 games)
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Of course, these Sv%'s are sensitive, in that an outlier game here or there could have a significant effect up or down (e.g., Hasek's 70 save game in '94, which ironically was against Brodeur). But at least this gives some added perspective on what they did in the clutch.
i was curious about how era informs this, so i split the numbers from '94 and after, and '86-'93. very crude and inexact, but here's what came out:
1. possibility to eliminate
hasek .936 (fell .001)
brodeur .926
roy 882/936 = .942
(roy's numbers pre-'94 are: 585/634 = .923)
2. facing elimination
hasek .934 (rose .005)
brodeur .919
roy 365/396 = .922
(roy's numbers pre-'94: 250/268 = .932)
i'm not sure what this tells us, really. but some observations:
- if you take away that 2002 game 7 against detroit, roy's post-'93 facing elimination SV% rises to .934, same as hasek's, so point taken about small samples and single events skewing things majorly
- re: single events and small samples again, look how subtracting one '93 playoff loss raises hasek's facing elimination SV% .005
- roy's '86-'93 SV% facing elimination is absolutely bonkers. this, of course, is where he makes his bones as the greatest playoff goalie of all time.
- taking away '86-'93, which again is all by itself more than a hall of fame playoff career, and roy's possibility to eliminate SV% rises to godly