2013 NHL Goalie Performance

This past weekend I heard a number of hockey announcers state that the most important player in the playoffs was the goaltender.  That reminded me that I had not finished the regular season NHL goalie analysis.  For our purposes, the NHL goalie measure analyzes the number of wins above average a NHL goalie produces in a given time period (in this case the lockout shortened season). So here are the top 10 NHL goalies using our Wins Above Average measure of an NHL goalie.  The updated coefficient on goals against is -0.341814 over the seasons from 1995/96 to 2013.  Using that measure of the impact of goals against on standings points, yields the following top 20 NHL goalies during the 2013 regular season.

	Player	Team		WAA		SV%
1	Sergei Bobrovsky	CBJ		3.720		0.932
2	Craig Anderson	OTT		3.364		0.941
3	Henrik Lundqvist	NYR		2.863		0.926
4	Tuukka Rask	BOS		2.860		0.929
5	Antti Niemi	SJS		2.518		0.924
6	Cory Schneider	VAN		2.152		0.927
7	Jimmy Howard	DET		2.137		0.923
8	James Reimer	TOR		2.054		0.924
9	Corey Crawford	CHI		1.850		0.926
10	Robin Lehner	OTT		1.745		0.936
11	Devan Dubnyk	EDM		1.563		0.920
12	Braden Holtby	WSH		1.550		0.920
13	Viktor Fasth	ANA		1.025		0.921
14	Ben Bishop	OTT, TBL		0.968		0.920
15	Ray Emery	CHI		0.792		0.922
16	Jason LaBarbera	PHX		0.791		0.923
17	Chad Johnson	PHX		0.777		0.954
18	Kari Lehtonen	DAL		0.732		0.916
19	Nikolai Khabibulin	EDM		0.712		0.923
20	Ryan Miller	BUF		0.668		0.915