The Contrarian Goaltender

Breaking down goaltending by the numbers

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Why History Suggests Carey Price Deserved the Hart Trophy

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I'm generally a fan of the Washington Post's Neil Greenberg , but in the wake of Carey Price sweeping the NHL awards last night I f...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Are Swedish Goalies Overvalued?

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In doing the research for my post on  Jacob Markstrom , one of the things I did was run the numbers for all Swedish goalies who have played ...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Predicting Playoff Success

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From Alan Ryder's Ten Laws of Hockey Analytics : One important warning - do not confuse correlation with causation.  The former is eas...
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Thursday, April 9, 2015

Arbitrary Endpoints, Career Numbers, and the Future of Jacob Markstrom

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(As an introductory note, it's been a while since I posted here, but a lot has happened in the interim, not just on the ice during the 2...
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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Scrivens vs. Dubnyk

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Just 1309 shots ago, Devan Dubnyk was a three-time Team Canada representative at the world championships making $3.75 million a year and se...
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Goalie Utilization at the Olympics

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From the reports I heard, Mike Babcock is looking to pick one goalie as his starter and run with him, rather than auditioning several goalie...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

One Shining Moment

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I used to be much more of a baseball fan than I am right now, but on occasion I can get suckered in binge reading Joe Posnanski or someone l...
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The Contrarian Goaltender
I'm Philip Myrland, goalie stats blogger since 2007 and former writer for Hockey Prospectus. I call myself a contrarian because I rely mainly on stats-based analysis, think large sample sizes are more important than "big saves" and prefer to rank goalies based on save percentage rather than team success. In other words, pretty much the mainstream views of the hockey analytics community, but I've grown attached to the handle and plan to keep it as long as broadcasters everywhere keep bringing up GAA and wins. If you have any questions or comments contact me by email (contrariangoaltender@gmail.com). You can also follow me on Twitter (@tcghockey).
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