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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| CrudeRemarks wrote on Fri, 25 January 2019 09:15 |
| Adam wrote on Fri, 25 January 2019 08:56 |
| GabbyDugan wrote on Wed, 23 January 2019 11:15 |
Mightyreasoner is right, Goalies are wild cards, so there isn't much to read from minor league performance.
Nevertheless, Olivier Rodrigue does seem to be holding his own in Drummondville. Hope he gets a chance someday to become overripe in the Oiler system.
https://www.nhl.com/oilers/news/future-watch-rodrigue-named- chl-goaltender-of-the-week/c-304148912
"The Oilers prospect went 2-0 with a goals-against-average of 1.00 and save percentage of .963, improving to 27-6-1-0 this season with the Drummondville Voltigeurs."
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Worth noting that the team also has four scorers in the top-12 in the league, so has Rodrigue been great, or is he just playing for a great team? So hard to tell with goalies because team performance impacts their stats so much.
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You mean like Cam Talbot?
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If you were to chart save percentages and team performance, I think you'd see a pretty high correlation. The challenge is deciding which impacts the other more. Is it simply that you need good goaltending to be competitive, so a drop in save percentage can sink your team? Or is it that bad teams will surrender more good chances, which hurts those teams' goalies' numbers? I suspect both things are true to a point, but it means that goaltending is the hardest position to evaluate from a numbers perspective.
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