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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
I've posted this in the past but:
Save percentages by month/series:
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Hiller Ortio Ramo
October 0.941 N/A 0.914
November 0.885 N/A 0.925
December 0.923 N/A 0.867
January 0.901 0.931 0.923 (1GP)
February 0.908 N/A 0.945
March 0.925 N/A 0.907
April 0.953 .773 (1GP) N/A
vs Canucks 0.931 N/A 0.905
vs Ducks .786 (1GP) N/A 0.907
Every month we got a goalie to stand on his head (Hiller more often) while the other goalie backed up. And that's overall save percentages not just high danger. The Tandem worked. Overall they got league average save percentages as a team, but they won a lot of games off of goaltending while giving up a ton of chances. There was not a month where we got below a .923 save percentage from at least one of the two goalies.
And again, a team that gives up more dangerous chances than 24 other teams do, yet has a 16th place save percentage, is not a team where the goalies are letting that team down. The reason that there weren't any months where both goalies were playing well, was because neither goalie is a #1. But don't confuse that with "both goalies played better-than-average at times, enough to post a league average save percentage overall despite getting some terrible chances against" . They did.
Average Save Percentage =/= Average Goaltending.
If Caged Great wants a .918 save percentage in front of this team, we need an above average goaltender or two guys playing in perfect synergy, or an improvement of team defense. One, the other, or preferably both. |
No matter if one guy was good each month (which again is an arbitrary end point) - the overall team save percentage was .911 which was pretty much dead-on in the middle of the league last year. Its not like the 'hot' goalie played each game of the month.