Episode 87: Age is Just a Number

The Hockey PDOcast

Sportsnet

Sportsnet, Sports, Nhl, Hockey

4.8 • 850 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Nick Mercadante joins the show to discuss how much seasoning goalies should ideally get in the minors, the upper limit for how many games a goalie should start in the regular season, and the next frontier for evaluating goalie performance quantitatively. Here’s a quick rundown of the topics covered: 1:51 Giving goalies time to mature in the AHL 5:20 The human element of the position 7:54 Squeezing more value out of ELCs 15:22 Vasilevskiy's strange path this season 17:15 Ideal workload over the course of a season 21:13 This year's crop of available goalies 26:30 Using bad goalies to subtly tank 29:40 Plans this summer to create new tools Every episode of this podcast is available on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher and can also be streamed right here on the website. Make sure to not only subscribe so that you don’t miss out on any new shows as they’re released, but also take a minute to leave a glowing review. Thanks for listening! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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