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Originally Posted by ricardodw
I am in the camp that the Flames system is a goalies grave-yard
Couple of articles that tie goalie metrics to team style and performance
Introducing the Shot Quality Project
Part II
I also think that it gets into a goalies head. Hard to keep confidence when you have a low save % even if you have a higher proportion of transition shots.
Will Ortio be able to play well when his sv % indicates that he is not an NHL calibre goal tender?
Hiller was able to do it last year but never got over the mess that was the flames system in October 2015.
October
Hiller record 2-3-0 sv% .861
Ortio 0-2-1 sv% .868
Ramo 1-3-0 sv% .868
I would venture to guess that the number of transition shots would have been a lot higher than 15%. With Gio-Hamilton looking like they never played hockey before the other team would be making 2-3 passes for each shot. |
I have seen the numbers posted a few times on SN over the past two months, but don't know off hand where to find them online. Anyhow, what has been remarkable about the Flames season is how poor Hiller's SP is on so-called "clean shots"it is devastatingly bad. So much so that even while he sports a good SP on shots in close, the number of goals he allows from low-percentage scoring is so bad that it has dragged his overall SP to an historically career low of 0.879.
Since Ramo's injury:
Joni Ortio 15 GP .898SP
Jonas Hiller 12 GP .840SP
Niklas Backstrom 3 GP .843SP
There is clearly something more to it than team defense.