Matt Murray’s on a tear. So was Jack Campbell last year, but not so much this year. We all know that, and that’s why we don’t trust Murray’s numbers to last. Last summer, Leafs fans finally reached a kind of acceptance that picking a goalie seems like playing a roulette wheel. And while we’re happy our number came up, we aren’t going to plan our future happiness around Matt Murray.
We’ve seen charts before showing how much goalies, year-over-year, are completely unreliable. Tto update for this season, this is all goalies by ordinary, all-situations Save %, a stat full of team effects, this year vs last year.