Please let him make team Canada, I need an excuse to get a new Wedgie jersey.
Wedgewood has truly risen to the occasion and has been stellar
I don’t want you to be wrong
Wedgewood has been Wedgewonderful, as Conor McGahey said~
I’m so fucked off we only extended him a single year. He has earned better.
This is the first time in many of our lives that i think we all are glad we have a Wedgie
And this is our “backup” goalie. 😍
Our backup goalie btw
To answer your question, SV% is a tough stat because it’s so reliant on things outside of the goalies control. How many shots are they taking? What are the quality of the shots?
A better (though still imperfect) metric is goals saved above expected. An explanation of a specific model for expected goals (they vary, and thus spit out different numbers) can be found here https://moneypuck.com/about.htm#shotModel
Based on that metric, trying to weed out outliers by setting minimum of 10 games played. Wedgie is the #14-15 goalie in the league, and Spencer Knight is the best goalie this season.
I think this is generally a good thing, as in the NHL, you don’t want to have to win all the time by having an absurd goalie, because then you’re prone to crashing if he has a slump, it also leads to teams looking better than they actually are (ex: Helly, who was indisputably the #1 regular season goalie last year.)
The cup winning goalie last season? (Minimum 50 games) #15 in goals saved above expected.
Wedgewood has been outstanding, no doubt. I’m curious what you sorted by to get these results. Quick has a .951. Wedgewood is 10th (technically 11th on this list but a better GAA) when I look up save percentage. https://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/seasons/nhl-goalies-stats.html
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Please let him make team Canada, I need an excuse to get a new Wedgie jersey.
Wedgewood has truly risen to the occasion and has been stellar
I don’t want you to be wrong
Wedgewood has been Wedgewonderful, as Conor McGahey said~
I’m so fucked off we only extended him a single year. He has earned better.
This is the first time in many of our lives that i think we all are glad we have a Wedgie
And this is our “backup” goalie. 😍
Our backup goalie btw
To answer your question, SV% is a tough stat because it’s so reliant on things outside of the goalies control. How many shots are they taking? What are the quality of the shots?
A better (though still imperfect) metric is goals saved above expected. An explanation of a specific model for expected goals (they vary, and thus spit out different numbers) can be found here https://moneypuck.com/about.htm#shotModel
Based on that metric, trying to weed out outliers by setting minimum of 10 games played. Wedgie is the #14-15 goalie in the league, and Spencer Knight is the best goalie this season.
I think this is generally a good thing, as in the NHL, you don’t want to have to win all the time by having an absurd goalie, because then you’re prone to crashing if he has a slump, it also leads to teams looking better than they actually are (ex: Helly, who was indisputably the #1 regular season goalie last year.)
The cup winning goalie last season? (Minimum 50 games) #15 in goals saved above expected.
Wedgewood has been outstanding, no doubt. I’m curious what you sorted by to get these results. Quick has a .951. Wedgewood is 10th (technically 11th on this list but a better GAA) when I look up save percentage. https://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/seasons/nhl-goalies-stats.html
Hot take: Wedgie might be a god.