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Goalie Lab · 2010-11

How hard is his job, and how well does he do it?

Save percentage blames the goalie for everything in front of him. The environment score measures the job instead, from how much danger came at him and how hard the shots were. Goals saved above expected measures what he did with it.

Season2010-11

Ryan Miller

BUF · 66 GP · 3829 min
Environment63Light
Saved above expected+3.8+0.06 per 6044th percentile
Save %.916expected .91454th percentile
Danger per 60
2.61 xGA38th
Shot quality
6.2% per shot10th
Shot volume
41.9 per 6062nd
High-danger share
32%15th
Rush and rebounds
12%60th
Penalty kill load
23% of xGA62nd

Small numbers: league percentile among qualified goalies (higher = more of it, a harder job).

Jhonas Enroth

BUF · 14 GP · 769 min · not enough minutes to rank
Environment—Unranked
Saved above expected+0.8+0.06 per 60
Save %.911expected .909
Danger per 60
2.63 xGA
Shot quality
6.3% per shot
Shot volume
42.1 per 60
High-danger share
32%
Rush and rebounds
10%
Penalty kill load
20% of xGA

Small numbers: league percentile among qualified goalies (higher = more of it, a harder job).

Patrick Lalime

BUF · 7 GP · 365 min · not enough minutes to rank
Environment—Unranked
Saved above expected-1.0-0.16 per 60
Save %.889expected .895
Danger per 60
2.80 xGA
Shot quality
7.0% per shot
Shot volume
40.2 per 60
High-danger share
40%
Rush and rebounds
11%
Penalty kill load
21% of xGA

Small numbers: league percentile among qualified goalies (higher = more of it, a harder job).

The whole league

Every qualified NHL goalie: how clean his job was, across (100 the easiest), and how well he did it, up. Bigger dots played more.

-1-0.75-0.5-0.250+0.25+0.5+0.75+10255075100Cleaner job →↑ Saved more than expectedSheltered and sharpBusy and brilliantSheltered and leakySwampedMiller
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Ryan MillerBUF
Jhonas EnrothBUF
Games6614Minutes3829769Save %.91654th.911Expected save %.914.909Saved above expected+3.844th+0.8Per 60+0.0644th+0.06Environment63Light—UnrankedDanger per 602.61 xGA38th2.63 xGAShot quality6.2% per shot10th6.3% per shotShot volume41.9 per 6062nd42.1 per 60High-danger share32%15th32%Rush and rebounds12%60th10%Penalty kill load23% of xGA62nd20% of xGA

Small numbers are league percentiles among qualified goalies. Save percentage and saved above expected: higher is better. The environment's ingredients: higher means more of it, a harder job.

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Any goalie's season, shot by shot or by area of the ice.

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The environment score measures how clean a goalie's job was: 100 is the easiest in the league, 0 the hardest. It ranks six things against every NHL goalie with at least a quarter of the league leader's minutes: expected goals against per 60 (35%), expected goals per shot (25%), shots per 60 (15%), the share of shots from high danger (10%), the share off the rush or a rebound (10%) and the share of danger faced on the penalty kill (5%). 80 and up is sheltered, under 20 is under siege. Areas of the ice follow NHL Edge's danger bands. How expected goals work