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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Continuing our discussion from the last thread.
Interesting thing is if you look at the shot mix the Flames give up you can estimate what goalie would be a better fit.
Over the last three seasons Flames have given up:
HDSA: 1375 (4th least)
MDSA: 1510 (19th)
LDSA: 2364 (9th)
Based on Holtby’s numbers the Flames would have given up 437 goals over the last three seasons.
Based on Markstroms numbers over that time they would have given up 419 goals.
So based on the actual shots against the Flames gave up and the save percentage for these goalies Markstrom would have been better by ~18 goals than Holtby. Of course no goalie is playing all the games, so more like 12 goals better if you assume 65% of the starts.
I generally agree with you though. Give me the goalie that saves low danger and medium danger goals but maybe doesn’t make a huge save over the goalie that maybe makes a huge save but let’s in a softy.
Just for reference the Actual Flames goalies gave up 453 goals against.
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So technically, the Flames are better off with either of those two over what we have/had. Thats the long and short of it.