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Originally Posted by Itse
Worst SV% of a goalie in a season with at least 42 starts in the 21st century:
Jose Theodore, .882 and a GAA 3.41 for Montreal in 2005-06.
Worst GAA:
Olie Kolzig, Washington Capitals 2005-06, 3.53 in 59 GP. (SV% .896)
Neither was generally speaking a terrible goalie.
I think John Grahame, TBL 2005-06 is a strong contender for the worst. Defending Stanley Cup champion team goes from 103 points (with Khabibulin) to 92 points and a first round exit with Grahame.
Grahame had a SV% of .889 in 57 regular season games, which was 4th worst this century, and .847 in 4 playoff games. His GAA of 4.76 in the playoffs was the worst in a decade (for goalies with at least 4 games in a playoff season) and easily the worst this century. That was his only season with 30+ starts.
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Well yeah, you can pick a single stat like GAA or SV% and pick a goalie and you might end up picking someone who was actually pretty decent (like Kolzig).
I was thinking you'd have to get a bit more technical with it. Massive spreadsheet, weighting each individual 'stat' category based on how predictive that stat is in determining whether or not a goaltender is considered good relative to his peers, etc. Lots of crunching but could be a neat brain exercise. Or you could use R, I guess.