AcademyGoaltending

How do you evaluate a hockey goalie?

A goalie is evaluated on four axes: raw quality (save percentage), quality under pressure (high-danger saves), consistency (share of quality starts) and context (volume and difficulty of shots faced). Wins and GAA, too team-dependent, come last.

Eye-test-only evaluation is treacherous for goalies: we remember the spectacular goals allowed and forget twenty routine saves. Systematic measurement, game after game, with the same definitions, is the only way to get an honest picture. That is exactly what RinkLog’s goalie mode does, shot heat maps included.

  • Overall SV%: the baseline, read over at least 10 games
  • HDSV%: save percentage on slot chances, where real saves are made
  • Quality starts: share of games where the goalie gives the team a real chance to win
  • Rebounds allowed: a goalie who smothers rebounds erases second chances
  • Shot volume faced: 20 shots and 40 shots a game do not tell the same story

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

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