And this isn’t an isolated case either most goalies have their five save stats in a very small range, if not identical like Holtby’s. Odd, isn’t it? Just perfectly even all around. Here’s what his five save stats look like in the most recent EA roster update: It’s especially glaring when you look at what I will refer to as the “five save stats”: Five Hole, Glove High, Glove Low, Stick High, and Stick Low.īraden Holtby is a perfect example of this. While there is a good degree of variance between the best and worst goalies in the NHL, there is a total lack of strengths and weaknesses for each individual.
There are also a lot fewer netminders than skaters, so it was easier to do multiple attempts with different formulas.Īfter pouring through the individual ratings for each goaltender, I started noticing a strange trend. A great goalie can carry a team on his back and a bad one can sink even the most talented of squads.
Yes, there are other skills like passing where a goalie can excel, but it all boils down to their ability to stop shots. Goalies, meanwhile, have one job: stopping pucks. It’s tough to boil things down to one number to compare a defensive ace, like Anthony Cirelli or Phillip Danault, to a pure goal scorer like Alex Ovechkin or a speedy playmaker like Mat Barzal. Rating skaters is difficult because they can be effective in vastly different ways. Reworking the goalie ratings system was the most fun part of the experiment for me. If you missed Part 1, in which I explained the process, click here to go give it a read to make sure you see the method behind the madness. In Part 2 of this 5 part series, I will break down the results for goaltenders. Using Sportlogiq data, I decided to rework the overall system and assign new attributes to every NHL player based on their real-life performance. With the hockey world going into lockdown in March, right as the playoffs were about to kick off, I turned to EA Sports NHL 20 for my hockey fix.
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