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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Not really. A lazy analysis of the numbers may be on your side but that's all it is. Since SV℅ is not a stat isolsted from team effects or league effects.
Below I will compare McDonald's SV% by danger level to Julio Billia, who posted a .919 to lead the entire Q in SV℅:
Wait a second. If you normalize that to the same shot volumes - McDonald was better than Billia in Medium Danger shots, and just as good at low and high danger shots.
It's almost as if goaltending stats don't exist in a vacuum!
Why, if you flipped their teams, McDonald would have led the Q in SV%!
Wait, being on a superior team makes you a better goaltender prospect and indicates upward progression?
Pretty bad? He had one bad game. I'm seen Carey Price look like a scrub during his Hart season when Josh Jooris was picking corners on him. It doesn't help that Canada thought our best shot at winning was spending virtually entire games killing 5-on-3s. |
This might be the most condescending post I've ever had directed at me on CP, and there are some extremely condescending posters on here. Well done. You win the prize.
BTW, the "numbers on my side" I was talking about was the fact that a vast majority of goaltenders don't make the NHL, and most wash out, not necessarily about his actual stats. That was merely an illustration of why I wasn't impressed.
Oh, and just in addition, his numbers actually regressed this year, which is not a great sign for any prospect. It wasn't just the WJC showing, that was merely a symptom of his lesser year.