
Earning the Vezina 2018, Part 2: Advanced stats and the rightful winner
In Part 1, we revealed who will win the Vezina award for 2018. No one can predict the working of 31 general managers’ minds with certainty, of course, but based on historic voting patterns, Pekka Rinne is very likely to win this year. Unless. Unless a specialist goaltending magazine could make a thoroughly convincing case for a different candidate. An indisputable case. A case so powerful it somehow compelled every GM to read it, and possibly even rewrote parts of their cortexes. What follows here in Part 2 is that very Inception. A Rationale for Deeper Statistical Analysis No...
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