It just doesn't work to look at every goal and say he should have had that. No chance on that etc.
Yeah obviously some goals allowed are so putrid it's 100% on the goalie. And occasionally there is absolutely nothing any goalie in the world could have done to save a shot.
But the rest of the time, there is sharing of blame and credit on goals and so it helps to look at results over time (like a full game or series of games) to assess a goalie's performance.
And that's not a spreadsheet take. Nor am I spreadsheet jockey.
I think that is common sense, and numbers help summarize the results of such a view better than a goal by goal breakdown, shot by shot breakdown.
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