I received yesterday in the mail The Sporting News's Complete Hockey Book.
This is the book that gives lifetime stats of all current NHL players including
many minor leaguers and drafted players.  In it, I saw RPI goalie recruit
Bryan Masotta's stats for the last three years.  The stats are incomplete,
but what is there raised an interesting question.  It states that in
93-94 Masotta played 856 minutes in 18 games in which he had 8 shutouts, gave
up 38 goals, and had a 2.66 GAA.  I was under the impression that HS games
are less than 60 minutes long.  (This is correct, isn't it?)  However, the
GAA average was caluculated as if the games were 60 minutes long.  By this
I mean that 856/60=14.267 and 38/14.267=2.66.  Is this the way that HS GAA
averages are calculated, or should the length of the game in minutes be
substituted for the 60?  I know that in the softball league that I am involved
in Earned Run Averages are based upon 7 innings per game, and somehow I
thought that the same thing would happen here.
 
By the way, if I forget about Masotta's 8 shutouts, he didn't do particularly
well in the other 10 games, giving up 38 goals.  For anyone that is interested,
in 92-93, he played in 29 games, also with 8 shutouts and with a 2.00 GAA.  In
91-92, playing for Taft, he played in 14 games with one shutout and a 3.10 GAA.
 
Ralph Baer   RPI '68, '70, '74