Pourcentage moyen d’arrêts des gardiens de la LNH au cours des neuf dernières saisons et jusqu’à présent cette saison. Il y a une nette tendance à la baisse.
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JPV_HOH
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Pourcentage moyen d’arrêts des gardiens de la LNH au cours des neuf dernières saisons et jusqu’à présent cette saison. Il y a une nette tendance à la baisse.
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JPV_HOH
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Skaters are getting faster and better, I’m not 100% sure this is exclusively a goalie problem
Players are getting faster and better and equipment is helping there too. I don’t think it’s a bad thing that save% is getting lower because it makes the game more fun to watch.
Next move is to make the pads even bigger! Lol
Montembault and the Sens goalies are helping with this downward trend.
go back to wood sticks
This year they also changed how they count shots on goal. They’re using the position sensors in pucks and being very strict about what gets counted.
Sorry it’s behind a paywall because it’s the Athletic but it’s the one I read.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6907302/2025/12/22/nhl-fewer-shots-technology/
Edit: I made the assumption the change was this season but after rereading the article it doesn’t actually say when they changed.
More goals= more fun = more viewers = more money
Cool
Don Cherry a decade or two ago commented that 2 things get people up off their asses during a hockey game. A fight. Or a goal. I see no problem with higher scoring personally 🤷♂️
Goalie pads got smaller in 2018.
Uh…Yay?
Are goalies degrading or are skaters getting better and faster?
Very curious correlation data would be SOG numbers and goals per game.
Or, shooter’s skills and abilities to score on elite goalies is an upward trend.
I’m sure there is way more than 1 reason for this, but what I’d be curious to know is: how many would-be great goalies are not playing in goal because of the prohibitive cost of becoming a goaltender?
Really, I think that is a very real reason for this downward trend. Goal tending equipment is eye wateringly expensive. There must be a ton of kids who want to play goalie, but their parents simply cannot afford it, so, they end up as a skater.
I’m sure the talent pool is shrinking with each new draft class, it must be.
I’m not sure what the numbers in the 2 columns on the right represent but it seems very strange so many years have the exact same values
Price has been out and the average goes down. Checks out
Curious about the correlation with 1) a noticeable decrease in slap shots and 2) decrease in recorded shots on goal
Montembault singlehandly taking care of that
Shot auditing is a huge part of this too
I don’t see a problem with this. Who hates goals?
Players are getting more skilled and faster rapidly. The way they release these pucks on their shots are almost borderline impossible to read and track. I will say as a whole teams aren’t as defensive minded and there’s more emphasis on scoring d-men who focus on the rush. Look at the Norris winners lol. I’d say goalies right now are even better technically and reaction-wise than in 2015. This year especially players are waiting to shoot at the perfect most high percentage areas on the ice which has caused more time that players are passing and cycling the puck around and create chaos. I’m sure we’ll see a boom save percentage in a year or two.
markstrom is solely responsible for the dip
Players getting smarter and instinctively shooting for the holes Ala : Cole Caufield.
I also think that drawn up screen plays and tipping plays is a major contributing factor.
Shots on goal are reviewed and they’re tight now about calling shots the goalie saved that might have been a bit high or wide are being taken off the board. Maybe because gamblers bet on shots / shot differential, attention is paid to being more accurate
And teams are less likely to blast away from the point, as players are better at getting in lanes than ever before, also less shooting from a sharp angle is also less often. They pass it around more to try to set up a better chance nowadays.
Averages suck. Give me the median.
It’s just ottawas goalies dragging the numbers down
to think Ovi did what he did when SV%’s were .910+ for almost his whole career .. insane
Rule changes, increased penalties being called, better PP, better technology, smaller goalie gear, there are tons of factors to this.
A quick Google will show a plethora of articles with different people’s theories as to why.
Expansion is part of the problem. There aren’t 33 good starting goalies. No one would trade a Bobrovsky or Helleybuck level goalie for a superstar forward and a first round pick. Good goalies are impossibly rare, but they keep expanding the league like that doesn’t matter
Ok but take out skinner, mrazek, and Hart and the stats look great
Pretty interesting. Would like to see this correlated with: sogs, pp time, pp goals, and by decile — are the bad goalies just worse or is it all goalies
Skaters have obviously gotten better, but they did have those goalie changes (knee/thigh height) in 2010 and shorter pads in 2013.
Is it a downward trend in goalies or an upward trend in skaters/goal scorers? 🤔