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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
I realize my post was too short. You are right in that Calgary is a poor place to use as a reference, with no stability and some highly unusual goaltending situations. (Hiller was a very special kind of bad one year after being pretty good the year prior. And they had some other guys like Ortio, Berra, etc who were debatable as NHL quality goalies)
It kind of breaks down like this. Based on the number and type of shots a goalie faces, they have an expected save percentage. Expected sv% on clean shots they can get in position for is about 95 percent. And for shots which follow a pass, it is something low, like .650. Etc.
For the most part, proven NHL goaltenders dropped in to a team have an expected save percentage, however a guy like Hiller playing like a sieve can quickly shave points off of it.
They way Peters had the Canes playing, it seems like .900-.910 is that expected range
You know what, I may just make a separate thread on this topic
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It is a topic worth deeper discussion, as I think that bad teams create bad goaltending. However, in the case of the Canes they also took a chance on a guy who had never been a #1 in Darling.
From listening to some of the Canes reporters int he last couple days certainly it sounds like he was awful. One I think referred to his goaltending as "borderline criminally bad"