NHL Goaltending
Do You Know Your NHL Goalie Trivia?
June 8th, 2018 Goalies are often compared by their win-loss record, goals against average, and number of shutouts and Stanley Cups won. This article is about the lesser-known records. The obscure ones. Facts that are great to know and fun to discuss during water cooler conversation or...
Goalies Making Things Tougher Than They Should Be
May 29th, 2018 Goaltenders are always in the spotlight during an NHL game and their mistakes seem to loom longer than their success. The action gets crazy around the net and goalies either make a great save or get scored on. They nearly always get blamed for a loss even though, as...
The 5 Greatest Goaltenders in NHL History
May 5th, 2018 Ranking goaltenders throughout the history of the NHL is an arduous task. Multiple factors must be considered: sheer dominance, longevity, impact on the sport, etc. For some, raw win and ring totals are more important than how those totals were achieved. With all of these...
Best Goalies of the 2017-18 Regular Season
May 5th, 2018 Historically, there are three statistics that are looked at to evaluate and compare a goaltender: wins, goals against average (GAA) and save percentage (SV%). While they all have some merit, wins and GAA are more indicative of a team statistic. Even SV% can be skewed...
Top 5 Goaltenders of the 1960s
April 2nd, 2018 The last line of defence. In a nutshell, that is what a goaltender has, is and will always be. No matter the era they played in, the job has always remained the same. See shot, stop shot...rinse and repeat. Sounds simple enough, now if only it were that easy. Off we go to...
3 Old Goalies Breaking the Curve
March 27th, 2018 Goalies are bizarre creatures. Their peculiar rituals include Patrick Roy talking to his goal posts and Glenn Hall making himself sick before every game. Regardless of the actual impact of said superstitions, both netminders are among the best at the position and are in...
Most Games Played By A Goalie in One NHL Season
March 22nd, 2018 Marc Denis can proudly say that he etched his name into the hockey history book somewhere. He's earned a spot on this list of most games played by a goalie in one NHL season. As research and skepticism seems to grow on the topic of goalie fatigue, it sure seems like many...
The 5 Best NHL Backups
March 22nd, 2018 Backup goalies rarely get the glory. In the case of the best in the game this season though, they’ve played key roles helping to lead their respective teams to potential playoff berths for a shot at the Stanley Cup. Taking into account their records, stats, upside,...
Solving the Goalie Interference Problem
March 8th, 2018 It seems to happen almost every game now, and even multiple times a game if you're especially unlucky. Both new and experienced hockey fans have been equally confused since the start of the season, when this whole mess started to overshadow games and now it's not just the...
5 Goalies' Trends Affecting Their Team's Performance
January 9th, 2018 Teams are typically only as successful as their goaltending is good. Or maybe it's that a goalie's success is reflective of the quality of players in front of him. Either way, it appears that the relationship is one of the chicken and the egg: that an argument can be made...
Early Vying for the Vezina
December 29th, 2017 "The Vezina Trophy is an annual award given to the goalkeeper adjudged to be the best at this position as voted by the general managers of all NHL clubs." That is how the trophy is described on nhl.com. The end of the year is a good time to evaluate what we have seen and...
NHL's Best Goalie Pads Ranked
November 27th, 2017 With each new NHL season, goaltenders debut new lines of leg pads, gloves, and blockers from the top goaltending equipment manufacturers. The gear is customized to match team colors and show a little bit of goalies’ often odd personalities. Because goalies can be very...
Oilers' Talbot Isn't the Only Struggling Goalie in October
October 17th, 2017 If you saw the 1-3-0 start to the season for the Edmonton Oilers, you'd think you were looking back to their decade of darkness. No, that's the start the Oilers are off to in 2017-18. Edmonton's been slow out of the gate this season despite being picked to win the Stanley...
