Thursday, February 09, 2006
But I prefer a win in 60
I'm sure we'll get around to making (and taking) Olympic predictions eventually, but here's the NHL shootout records of the Olympic goalies (Name, Country, Shots Against/Goals Against, Save%):
Rounding up the shooters is a lot more work, and probably pointless. Every team has guys who can score in the shootout; only Finland (Jokinen) and Slovakia (Balastik) appear to have a guy who is money in the bank.
(If Finland wasn't missing Kari Lehtonen in goal, they'd be the scariest shootout team. Lehtonen is perfect, and besides Jussi Jokinen's insane 8-for-8, Laaksonen, Nieminen, and Jarko Ruuttu are all 1-for-1.)
- Vitaly Kolesnik, KAZ, 7/0, 1.000
- Martin Brodeur, CAN, 23/3, 0.870
- Henrik Lundqvist, SWE, 28/5, 0.821
- Marty Turco, CAN, 16/3, 0.812
- David Aebischer, SUI, 7/2, 0.714
- Rick DiPietro, USA, 27/8, 0.704
- Olaf Kolzig, GER, 36/11, 0.694
- Roberto Luongo, CAN, 15/5, 0.667
- NHL Average Save Pct%: 0.661
- Martin Gerber, SUI, 17/6, 0.647
- Tomas Vokoun, CZE, 14/5, 0.643
- John Grahame, USA, 11/4, 0.636
- Dominik Hasek, CZE, 16/6, 0.625
- Antero Niittymaki, FIN, 20/9, 0.550
- Evgeni Nabokov, RUS, 13/8, 0.385
- Peter Budaj, SLO, 11/8, 0.273
- Mikael Tellqvist, SWE, 2/2, 0.000
- Robert Esche, USA, no shootouts
- Ilya Bryzgalov, RUS, no shootouts
Rounding up the shooters is a lot more work, and probably pointless. Every team has guys who can score in the shootout; only Finland (Jokinen) and Slovakia (Balastik) appear to have a guy who is money in the bank.
(If Finland wasn't missing Kari Lehtonen in goal, they'd be the scariest shootout team. Lehtonen is perfect, and besides Jussi Jokinen's insane 8-for-8, Laaksonen, Nieminen, and Jarko Ruuttu are all 1-for-1.)
# posted by Matt @ 1:52 pm 
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You mean a sizable advantage in the shootout, right? Because the thought of facing Hasek and Vokoun in regulation and the shootout has me wetting myself in fear.
That is what I meant, however, I'm pretty happy with Canada's goaltending otherwise as well. (Seriously - I'm just as happy with our 3 guys as I would be with Hasek & Vokoun).
Yeah, but they don't let you put all three guys in there at the same time.
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You mean a sizable advantage in the shootout, right? Because the thought of facing Hasek and Vokoun in regulation and the shootout has me wetting myself in fear.
That is what I meant, however, I'm pretty happy with Canada's goaltending otherwise as well. (Seriously - I'm just as happy with our 3 guys as I would be with Hasek & Vokoun).
Yeah, but they don't let you put all three guys in there at the same time.
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