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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Save percentage is heavily dependent on the quality of shots given up by the team.
Goals-against average is heavily dependent on team defensive play.
Number of prospect goaltenders developed is critically dependent on the number of goalies actually drafted, and where in the draft they were taken. (It is really not the fault of coaching if the GM takes a flyer on a goalie in the 6th round and he never makes the show. Nor, *ahem*, if the GM drafts a promising prospect and an injury blows his career. The sample size is too small for statistical significance.)
‘Top-10 goaltending statistics in x category’ isn't even meaningful unless you do the work to specify x.
The statistics you've just suggested don't even tell the story about goalies, let alone goalie coaches. Statistically speaking, a goalie is a big black box with about half a dozen inputs and one output. Coaching is only one of the inputs. Unless you have a very accurate measure of all the other inputs, knowing the output is not going to tell you anything useful about the quality of one input in isolation.
You are trying to solve an equation with too many variables, and the only way to pretend confidence in your value of X is to make WAGs about Y, Z, W, P, and Q.
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I agree, but I think a decade of changing the other inputs (head coach, defensive players, offensive players, defensive strategy, organizational direction, leadership, etc.) has resulted in my belief that the one consistent input (outside of the actual physical city of Calgary) is the goaltending coach.
But it goes beyond that. The purpose of the goaltending coach is to ostensibly: 1. improve/ stabilize goaltending club wide, 2: develop more goalies from prospects
Neither of these goals have been achieved over a ten year period.