Time to learn more about the current status of goaltenders in the NHL with our latest investigation! What are we measuring here? We want to know if the amount of goals against has to do with the amount of shots against for a goaltender. For this investigation, the top ten goaltenders in goals against were used along with their numbers for shots against. Top Ten (from hockey-reference.com): Frederik Andersen (TOR)- 64 GA, 786 SA Cam Talbot (EDM)- 61 GA, 629 SA Matthew Murray (PIT)- 58 GA, 617 SA John Gibson (ANA)- 57 GA, 715 SA Henrik Lundqvist (NYR)- 57 GA, 684 SA Craig Anderson (OTT)- 56 GA, 504 SA Jake Allen (STL)- 55 GA, 589 SA Mike Smith (CGY)- 54 GA, 713 SA Jimmy Howard (DET)- 53 GA, 621 SA Robin Lehner (BUF)- 52 GA, 537 SA Devan Dubnyk (MIN)- 52 GA, 592 SA Brian Elliott (PHI)- 52 GA, 548 SA Ben Bishop (DAL)- 52 GA, 581 SA Observed r: 0.624 Association: Positive Strength: Moderate True correlation between goals against and shot attempts is positive because 2% were above the observed r of 0.624 presented above. So this means that there is a good chance that these two variables are related! With a larger sample size, we will know if they truly are correlated BUT this is a start.
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