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Originally Posted by Bingo
Just ran the xGA vs GA stats in bands.
Markstrom has been either even or better than expected goals in 60% of his games, Vladar 52%
Giving up two or more than they should have ...
Markstrom 17%
Vladar 24%
Hockeyreference quality start index
Markstrom 45.5%
Vladar 43.5%
Both pretty bad, Markstrom slightly better.
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Per 60 Vladar is -0.32 GSAA and Markstrom is -0.42. GSAA. Both terrible but Markstrom is worse.
But again, while those stats are important to understand the individual contribution of the goalies, Vladar has a way better record in front of the exact same team.
At the very least the analytics would say play them 50/50, but the results give an edge to Vladar.
So why the heck did Markstrom start all but 1 game in March? He only won 7 of them, so it's not like he was in a heater.