Former goalie of KHL clubs Alexey Krasikov who currently plays in Slovakia, spoke about the influence of goalkeeper statistics on match evaluation.
“We only look at save percentage and reliability coefficient – and these are numbers that often do not objectively reflect the performance level of goalkeepers. [На самом деле] This is a problem with scouting not only in Russia, but all over the world – but people now understand that they need to watch the games to understand where the shot is coming from and what degree of danger it carries.
It happens that you get 45 shots, and only 2-3 of them are real chances – but your stats are fantastic, because you missed a goal, your save percentage is 96, because the team Played tight defense, never left the zone, didn’t let me finish. But it happens the other way around – 20 shots, among which there were 9-10 dangerous chances from the slot, of which you took away seven or eight, missed two or three.
If we take smart statistics, they turn out to be much better here, and the number of “single” shots often does not reflect the level of the goalkeeper’s workload in the match. In my opinion, these statistics are not sufficiently developed. You have to look at every goalkeeper, how he works in critical moments,” Krasikov said in the Championship.
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