I personally judge a goalie by consistency and how much they give their team confidence by playing solid.
IMO the best stat to measure consistency is quality starts and QS%.
I personally judge a goalie by consistency and how much they give their team confidence by playing solid.
High danger SV% probably separates the good from the bad.
I think that low danger Sv% would be more telling
I'm pretty sure this is what dSV% is.
- Even strength save percentage - washes out short handed situations which can affect save percentage negatively or positively.
- High danger save percentage - self explanatory.
- Goals saved above average.
- Difference between expected save percentage versus actual save percentage - factors in strength of defense.
- Difference between expected save percentage versus actual save percentage - factors in strength of defense.
Do you know how expected save percentage is calculated?
Some goalies do better with the short distance shots than the long distance shots.
Basic old time hockey. % of first goal of the game allowed. Very different game down 1-0 vs leading 1-0. Also leads protected vs leads lost.
First influences the strategy of a game and resulting shot totals and quality of shots for both teams.
Second has a similar effect except not necessarily a function of the first goal.
I think that's fair, to a point.SV% is not a good way to evaluate goalies who play on strong defensive teams.
I think that's fair, to a point.
Just don't try to convince me that Martin Jones (or Jake Allen) are elite. Both face a lower amount of shots/are on strong defensive teams. Jones also routinely gets outplayed by his backup, and it's not exactly like Corey Schwab or Scott Clemmensen ''Outplaying'' Brodeur while only getting 5 starts a year.
Funny enough, Quick's save percentage has went up quite a bit this year, in facing more shots per game. However, I don't think it would everyone's go up, at least not by that much.
Jones faces over 28 shots on goal this year, so I don't think he's hardly facing any. He's an average starting goalie if you ask me, not any better than that.Every single goalie has a lower cumulative SV% in their lower shot volume games. Playing in a lot of low shot volume games does have a deflating effect on SV%.
FTR I hope people understand that when I say "deflated", I don't necessarily mean "lower" or "decreased".
There's no real relationship between the actual number of shots a team allows and the outcome of the game. There's no real relationship between the actual number of shots a team generates and the outcome of the game.
Allowing 30+ shots does not mean win
Generating 30+ shots does not mean loss
Ultimately a goalie that faces below average shot totals often will always have a deflated SV%.
Jones faces over 28 shots on goal this year, so I don't think he's hardly facing any. He's an average starting goalie if you ask me, not any better than that.
Never made that claim. Issue is allowing the first goal of the game and the impact the first goal has on the rest of the game.
Jones did have one elite season in 15-16, but the past two seasons he's been average to above average at best.
I don't disagree one bit. My point though is that score effects have a minimal impact on the game's final shot totals.
Not claiming an effect on final shot totals.
FTR I hope people understand that when I say "deflated", I don't necessarily mean "lower" or "decreased".
Can you please clarify how you are defining deflate and decrease, because it seems to me they are synonyms in this context?
The goaltender that has the most wins.Basically, whenever I see any argument about goaltenders on here it always comes down to save percentage. Whenever I see someone talking about a goalie, save percentage is the most important stat. I rarely, if ever, see an argument about a goaltender that uses a stat other than save percentage. There has to be more to goaltending than that though, right?
I've seen the argument that wins is the most important statistic for goaltenders, and I'm almost inclined to agree. There's nothing more important in hockey than winning! At the same time though, it could easily be argued that having a better save% and GAA would lead to more wins.
This partially stems from a recent thread I saw in the Polls section about whether or not Robin Lehner was a #1 goaltender. The only argument I saw for Lehner from anyone in the entire thread was that his Sv% was good. I saw a couple Buffalo posters talk about how his Sv% numbers might be a bit misleading. Sure he absorbs a lot of shots, but does he make the key saves when he needs to? I'm really not trying to make this into a thread about Robin Lehner or any specific goaltender, this is purely an example.
I've seen posts on this site before talking about the relationship between a higher # of shots and a higher Sv%. I also feel as though lots of people would expect goalies on worse teams that allow more shots to have a lower Sv%. I think what it comes down to more than anything is the quality of shots that a goalie faces.
I think that Jonathan Quick is a good example for the point I'm trying to convey here. Often times his Sv% isn't at the top of the league, but his GAA is. I feel like he gets a bit overlooked on here because so many people focus purely on Sv%. I think his Sv% is lower because he faces less shots than a lot of goalies on worse teams, but he also lets in a lot less goals than most goalies. Is it his fault that his team has been generally very good at limiting shots against him? Again, I'm not trying to make this about any specific players.
My main question is, how should we be judging goalies? I personally believe that there's no better way to judge a player than to watch them play, but I'm a lot worse at judging a goalies abilities than a skaters. Surely there's more we can look at than just a goalie's Sv% though am I right?
Deflate means a goalie can have a high SV%, but if they play in a lot of low shot volume games, sustaining it becomes more difficult. Expecting a goalie to sustain a high SV% over multiple seasons when playing on strong defensive teams is unrealistic. Marty Turco was able to do it for one season in 2003, but he never really came close again.
Since the 2005 lockout, when goalies face 29 or fewer shots, the average SV% is .905, and that's even after omitting the bad games where goalies get pulled early or come in for relief. When facing 30 or more shots, the average SV% is .925.