Goals against per game we are 4th.
Shots against per game we are 9th
Scoring chances against (total) we are 14th (we'd be rounding out the top10 on a per game basis)
HD scoring chances against (total) we are 12th (same as above, we'd be rounding out the top10 on a per game basis)
PK we are 2nd in the league - and we are allowing the lowest or top 3 lowest amount of chances/HD chances/shots of any team on a per game basis. Also the lowest amount of total goals against (17), despite no team having played more games.
We are very near the top of most categories here that are non-goalie dependent.
The above is context. It means our goal tending has clearly aided us, and Jarry more so because DeSmith has really bad numbers save for four or five games. But it also says that, at worst, our defense or at least team defense has performed as top 10 in the league over the season as a whole.
Then what about Jarry individually? (looking only at goalies with more than 600 minutes playes).
He is 9th in the league in overall save%.
He is tied for 8th in the league in 5 on 5 save%.
He is 16th in ES save percentage (probably reflecting our dodgy D in OT and 4 on 4 play)
He is however only 29th when we look at overall HD save% which is a category you'd expect to be higher in, if you were consistently standing on your head to win your team games.
Naturalstattrick does not appear to have individual save% for PK'ing situations, which is a shame, so I cannot get CDS out of that one. They do have the team stats though, and Pens get the 2nd best save percentage overall, and the 15th best save% on HD chances. Remember that the team is numerically speaking elite in not allowing these, so part of the elite overall stats is also that the vast majority of shots against are kept to areas where saves are more routine.
One of the things usually pointed out is that Jarry is at the top in terms of number of saves made and more so HD chances saved. At the same time, he is also at the top in HD chance goals allowed. These are more than anything functions of playing the most minutes and games of all goalies with Helle and Saros, who are right there with him in these categories.
Therefore pointing out middling HD save% is meaningful context.
That'd be 15 of his 25 wins..... There have also been games where he was great where we lost anyway.
We don't have a juggernaut team, but we are also top10 in goal scoring, shots per game, shots allowed and now 12th on the PP. In win % we are 9th.
The reality is that goaltending is very important, but also that the goalies of your own team are the only ones you (or most people at least) see play a great number of times a year. Hence stats are meaningful to provide some context, more so as few people are good at evaluating goalies.
Jarry has been very good. But clearly our defense/team defense has been good too, when you look at the season as a whole. All fans can look at their own team and find numerous games where they've played shitty D, or just given up pathetic goals due to individual mistakes.
There may not be a high profile D-man in the league who is individually to blame for more of those kinds of goals than Letang. He has still had a very good season on balance.
