Wednesday, April 16, 2014

NHL Regular Season Goalie Performance for 2013-14

For the past few years I have been looking at NHL goalies and evaluating their regular season performance. So now that the 2013/14 NHL regular season is in the books, let's look at NHL goalie performance using our NHL goalie measure called Wins Above Average.  For those interested in how I calculate this measure, here is a step-by-step guide to measure WAA.  As mentioned in the previous link, I will need a measure of the impact that goals against has on team points, and for the 1995 to 2013 NHL regular seasons, this is equal to -0.340858.

So who is the best NHL goalie for the regular season?  Tuukka Rask, followed very closely by Semyon Varlamov.  Here are the top 20 goalies this season ranked by WAA.


Player Team
WAA
SV%
1 Tuukka Rask BOS
4.521
0.930
2 Semyon Varlamov COL
4.517
0.927
3 Carey Price MTL
4.102
0.927
4 Ben Bishop TBL
3.046
0.924
5 Jonathan Bernier TOR
2.792
0.923
6 Sergei Bobrovsky CBJ
2.654
0.923
7 Cam Talbot NYR
2.593
0.941
8 Josh Harding MIN
2.254
0.933
9 Anton Khudobin CAR
2.231
0.926
10 Henrik Lundqvist NYR
1.902
0.920
11 Alex Stalock SJS
1.768
0.932
12 Martin Jones LAK
1.718
0.934
13 Jaroslav Halak STL, WSH 1.692
0.921
14 Ben Scrivens LAK, EDM 1.677
0.922
15 Kari Lehtonen DAL
1.662
0.919
16 Roberto Luongo VAN, FLA 1.399
0.919
17 Cory Schneider NJD
1.352
0.921
18 Chad Johnson BOS
1.347
0.925
19 Ryan Miller BUF, STL 1.338
0.918
20 Frederik Andersen ANA
1.223
0.923