Re: Pavalec Experiment Over Yet?
No goalie in Winnipeg this year is putting up quality starts with any regularity. 53% is roughly league average for the stat in a given year. Winnipeg has:
Hellebuyck at 48.5% quality starts, which is bad, and ranks 46th in the league.
Hutchinson at 26.7%, which is atrocious, and ranks 65th of 69 goalies who've started.
Pavelec at 25.0%, which is also atrocious, but in a small sample size. He's in a 3-way tie for 66th of 69.
So Hellebuyck has been bad, but has had enough good moments to clearly be the guy moving forward next year.
Pavelec is a backup quality goalie, and Hutchinson seems to be about the same.
Some goalies are inconsistent, yet escape the "bad" label. Marc-Andre Fleury is the poster boy for this phenomenon. He's had 5 seasons where's he been below average in quality start percentage, and a few of those years have been under 50%. In some formats, he's a bad goalie, and he's not good for spot starts if you care about SV% or GAA.
Hellebuyck could easily improve his consistency, and that would be big for the Jets, as they have lacked an above-average goalie for a long time.
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