seventieslord
Student Of The Game
I would love to see newspaper articles comparing Nicholsson to his contemporaries written by people who actually saw them.
Given that scoring levels and competition varied wildly from team to team, league to league, season to season, back then, I don't think comparing career GAAs is all that helpful. If you have time, doing "with and without" GAA study like HO did for Benedict could be helpful.
Sorry, what did HO do for Benedict, again?
Yeah, scoring levels could vary and that's a really inexact science but how much could that really skew things? Moran's career GAA was a whole 31% higher. It's really unlikely that if a detailed study that normalized everything (which would be practically impossible) was done, that it would make up for a gap like that. Nicholson's playoff GAA was also the best of that bunch, despite facing the best competition among them.
I like the quote, "At his best there are few better net guardians in the business." Kind of implies that there were, in fact, better ones, right? Perhaps the three in the HHOF?
pfft... you wouldn't flinch if the exact same thing was written about Benedict... or Vezina, or Gardiner.