Carey Price is the Montreal Canadiens undisputed number 1 goalie. Price is a 6'3", 220 lbs left-handed shooting goalie. Price finished the 2011-12 regular season with a 26-28-11 record, a 2.43 goals against average, and a .916 save percentage. He has a career save percentage of .916 during the regular season, and .907 during the playoffs.
Jonas Gustavsson recently signed a 2-year deal with the Detroit Red Wings. Gustavsson played the 2011-12 season with Toronto, before being traded to the Winnipeg Jets on June 23rd, 2012. Winnipeg wasn't able to come to terms with The 6'3", 192 lbs Gustavsson; making him an unrestricted free agent. The left-handed shooting Gustavsson had a 17-17-4 record in 2011-12, with a 2.92 goals against average, and a .902 save percentage. He has a career save percentage of .900 during the regular season, and has yet to play an NHL playoff game.
My scouting reports for goalies focus on their ability to make saves, make big saves, and control rebounds. The results of these attributes are added together to produce the goaltender's rating. The highest possible rating is 4.00, while the lowest possible rating is 0.00. The higher the value the better a goalie has played.
The first number involved in the calculation is the percentage of saves a goalie makes without giving up a rebound. For example, if a goalie makes 10 saves and gives up only 1 rebound his "no rebound percentage" is .900. Again, the higher the number, the better a goalie performed.
The next number in the calculation is the percentage of safe rebounds a goalie gives up for each rebound allowed. Rebounds deflected outside of the main slot are considered safe. As such, a safe rebound is defined as a rebound outside of an imaginary line drawn from each goalpost to the corresponding board-side hash mark. As an example of this calculation, if a goalie gives up 10 rebounds and deflects 9 of those pucks outside the slot, his "safe rebound percentage" is .900. Again, the higher the number, the better a goalie performs.
The next number is the percentage of saves that would be considered "big saves". A big save is defined as any save made on a play that would be considered a traditional scoring chance. As an example of this calculation, if a goalie makes 5 big saves on 20 shots his "big save percentage" would be .250. Once again, the higher the number, the better a goalie performs.
I also track how a goalie controls the puck. I do this by tracking his successful or unsuccessful pass-attempts, as well as his successful or unsuccessful attempts to dump the puck out of his zone. The resulting numbers are used to produce a ratio of successful plays for every 1 unsuccessful play.
SHORT-HANDED GOALTENDING RATING
Carey Price continued his strong short-handed goaltending; producing another above-average short-handed rating. This, despite a low save-percentage. He stopped 5 of 6 short handed shots. He produced rebounds from 3 of those 5 saves, but only 1 of those 3 rebounds landed in the slot. He also made 1 save on a Toronto scoring chance.
Gustavsson had a perfect short-handed save-percentage, but a below average short-handed goaltending rating. He stopped both shots he faced, but allowed rebounds from both of those saves. One of those 2 rebounds landed in the slot, and none of his saves came on Montreal scoring chances.
OVERALL GOALTENDING RATING
Price's even-strength rating was slightly better than his short-handed rating; pushing his overall rating to a solid 2.11. Overall, he stopped 39 of 42 shots. He allowed rebounds on 26 of those 39 saves.
Ten of those rebounds landed in the slot, and he made an impressive 9 saves on Toronto scoring chance.
Price completed 7 of 8 pass-attempts; giving him a puck-handling ratio of 7 successful plays for every 1 unsuccessful play.
Gustavsson's even-strength rating helped improve his overall rating substantially. Overall, he stopped 21 of 22 shots. He allowed rebounds from 13 of those 21 saves. Seven of those rebounds landed in the slot, and he made 3 saves on Montreal scoring chances.
Gustavsson completed 5 of 7 pass-attempts; giving him a puck-handling ratio of 2.5 successful plays for every 1 unsuccessful play.
Keep in mind, this is simply a one-game scouting report. As such, it is only meant as a reflection of each goalies performance during this one-game.
