So an interesting analysis I wanted to do from my last article was to expand on how the team plays when a certain goalie is in net. It required some brainstorming and time to get the individual stats for each game but it was well worth it. Since most of these are advanced stats I’ll give a very elementary explanation of each one before presenting the data, that way everybody and anybody can read the article.

Let’s start with PDO. This stat is the sum of on ice shooting percentage and on ice save percentage. Visually it’s

PDO = On Ice Shooting % + On Ice Save %. The higher, the better. In this case, Lundqvist barely wins the PDO battle. The fact that both goalies are above 100 is incredible and is truly a testament to how well they’re both playing for us. We’re lucky to have such amazing goaltenders.

Next is the discussion of Corsi %’s. Corsi isn’t difficult to understand but it does tell us about the balance of the team and whether we’re skewed more offensively or defensively. In plain terms, Corsi takes into account all shot attempts (missed, blocked and on goal). The first graph looks at the raw Corsi numbers while the second takes into account the Corsi %’s. Therefore, Corsi For % (CF% in graph) is the rangers shot attempts compared to the opposing teams shot attempts. Visually that’s: Rangers shot attempts / Opposing teams shot attempts. Corsi against (CA%) is the same idea but flipped, Opposing teams shot attempts / Rangers shot attempts. In analyzing the Corsi numbers you see that we skew slightly defensive for Lundqvist while we’re more averaged out under Talbot. This means with Lundqvist in net we take on more shot attempts than we take. This could be due to being comfortable sitting back on leads while Lundqvist is in net. Again though, the stats are extremely similar. Lundqvist is beating out Talbot, but only slightly.