>>This is certainly quite interesting. Does anyone really think that
>>Herlofsky is a 'horrible' goalie?
>
>He certainly was horrible early this season in the two games against UMass-
>Lowell.  BU escaped with a win and a shootout loss, but Herlofsky's play was
>enough to make a BU fan "Herl".  :-)  From what little I've seen since then
>he's settled down greatly, but he was butt-ugly in those two games.  It
>actually would be interesting to see what his stats would be this season if
>those two "performances" were eliminated.
 
Ask and ye shall receive! Thanks to the BU home page, I got the stats from
those two games and have done the necessary calculations. "Without" means
excluding the two games against UML.
 
Herlofsky    GP   Min  Svs  GA  GAA   Save%  Pers.R  Sh/G   W-L-T
Hockey East  12   669  194  35  3.14  .8472  881.39  20.54  6-2-3
HE without   10   582  168  23  2.37  .8796  912.40  19.69  6-2-2
Overall      18  1039  326  49  2.83  .8693  905.43  21.66 11-3-3
  "" without 16   952  300  37  2.33  .8902  925.61  21.24 11-3-2
Those 2 games 2   107   26  12  6.73  .6842  719.72  21.31  0-0-1
 
So, Derek Herlofsky's Conference P.R. goes up by 31 points if those two
games are taken away. Overall, his P.R. goes up 20 points without those
two games. For interest's sake, I added his "performance" in those two
disasters. FWIW, this also shows why win-loss record is totally
irrelevant for goalies, but that's another story.
 
I'm not sure what would happen if ther goalie's two worst performances were
taken away, but I think DaveH is right, that Herlofsky's two worst have
held him back.
 
See you later,
John
 
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