Likely the “useless stat of the day” but have fun with it!
Are Kipper's Bauer pads an advantage?
I have absolutely no idea what came over me to mess around with these numbers, perhaps it’s a bout of bronchitis that has my brain only able to work on thoughtless autopilot. Whatever the reason, I combined the NHL.com stats as of March 29 and information from the Goalie Guild’s Pads Tracker.
Here are the numbers for the major equipment makers. I used leg pads only, there seems to be a big variety amongst the Vaughn users in particular of which brand of gloves they use. John Curry was eliminated because his GAA and Save PCT are so wildly out of line. This of course also points out that taking an average of a bunch of averages doesn’t tell us a whole lot. It needs to be weighted…Curry can’t count equally with the big men of the league who log a tonne of minutes.
| Bauer | 14 | 2.816 | 0.905 |
| Reebok | 26 | 2.758 | 0.905 |
| Vaughn | 32 | 2.744 | 0.910 |
If you actualy calculate save percentage from totals of shots and saves for the three makers – rather than taking an average of averages – Curry can stay in and we get:
Bauer 0.913
Reebok 0.908
Vaughn 0.912
Go ahead, and speculate wildly on what this means – probably nothing at all…
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LOL, these numbers mean absolutely nothing. because of the fact they are on different goalies. if one certain goalie tried each of these pads for an extended period of time you would get a much more accurate picture. this is all pure speculation.
Hence, “useless” stat. Maybe tomorrow we’ll see which eye colour performs best!
hahahah I love it Dave! I have always felt that RBK goalies (and Brian’s of course!) were way better than the Vaughn boys.
However, since the number of wearers is so drastic, the stats will play to their favor. What would be interesting to know is how many of the guys wearing Vaughn have them stock and how many have them just essentially ghosted RBKs (Carey Price)
But like stated earlier by Jase, sadly, the evidence is inconclusive.