NHL PR: Reigning Vezina Trophy winner Braden Holtby improved to 19-0-2 in his past 21 decisions to move within two of equaling the Capitals record.

I feel like the main problem we're having here is that you don't seem to have an understanding of advanced statistics and analytics and what they actually mean.

I'm going to use an example that should be easy to understand because there is more consensus.

You know how Brooks Orpik is a 3rd pairing Dman who gets among the least icetime for the caps? He has the 3rd best +/- in the entire league. Is Brooks Orpik the 3rd best Dman in the league? Obviously not. This is because +/- isn't a metric that any serious analyst uses to determine a players skill.

When you learn about things like Offensive/Defense Zone Start % and adjusted Corsi - you understand the real "story" of Brooks Orpik, which is that he is what is called a "sheltered dman" who takes primarily offensive zone starts, and then with his primarily offensive zone starts the team takes more shots than it gives while he is on the ice. That is what makes him a "bad" player, not his +/-.

Compare that to Patrice Bergeron. He won the Selke as the best defensive forward with a +/- of 2. Why did he win with a +/- of 2? Because he started in the defensive zone on an incredible 60% of the time, and then while on the ice his team STILL took 60% of the shots, showing the kind of "advanced" impact that he had.

I don't want to just tell you Holtby's season wasn't Vezina worthy, I want you to look up the advanced goal-tending statistics and understand why.

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