AcademyGoaltending

How do you compare two hockey goalies?

To compare two goalies fairly, compare their save percentage at comparable shot volume and difficulty, never their raw wins or GAA: those two numbers belong as much to the team as to the goalie.

The most honest comparison remains the percentile: placing each goalie among goalies of the same age, level and game volume. That is what RinkLog Benchmarks do, without ever exposing another player’s individual data.

  • SV% over the same span and a sufficient sample (10+ games)
  • HDSV%: who stops the hard chances, not just blue-line floaters
  • Shots faced per game: the bombarded goalie deserves an adjusted read
  • Consistency: the gap between good and bad games
  • Same level of competition, or the comparison is worthless

RinkLog measures and computes this statistic automatically during your hockey, ball hockey and ringette games.

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