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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Somewhat.
And maybe even mostly.
But some teams are going to allow the shooters more time, more space, and more opportunity to make plays, than other teams do. So it is never going to even out. And the problem is: we don't know the degree of that problem so we can't know how close it will, or won't, come to evening out. And that makes it very difficult to draw meaningful conclusions from the numbers.
And yet every day, we see people take these stats from individual games, and apply them like they are what's what.
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It's even tougher for goalies and fancy stats, even with, say, a season long sample. Only one other goalie plays under roughly the same conditions as Vladar over a season, and that's Wolf. All other goalies face the same shooters more or less. BUt they don't all play behind the same team defence as the Flames' goalies.
More than any other position, I think you need to rely on eye test for goalies, but over a long period of time.