8 — the number of quality starts the Flyers have received from their two goaltenders through their first 11 games this year.
What’s a “quality start”? As defined by Rob Vollman in the 2013 Hockey Abstract (via NHLNumbers):
If the starting goalie stopped at least a league average number of shots, which was typically 91.3% prior to 2009–10 and 91.7% since then, or if he played at least as well as a replacement-level goalie (88.5%) while allowing two goals or fewer, we defined that as a Quality Start.
To summarize: if a goalie starts a game and ends it with a single-game save percentage that’s higher than the league-average save percentage, OR if he gives up two or fewer goals in a game in which he otherwise doesn’t face many shots, he gets a quality start.