Today, I found out an interesting story about Penguins' keeper Marc-André Fleury.
Apparently, Fleury has traded in his ''signature'' yellow pads and is awaiting to receive a new set of white ones. The reason for this decision is because ''Fleury got a letter from an eye doctor in Ottawa with charts and an explanation of why Fleury's signature yellow pads gave shooters an advantage.'' Indeed, Fleury is changing his pads because his new ones are supposed to make him look bigger in net, and therefore to get an advantage over opposing shooters. This is a quite far-fetched reason for Fleury's lack of greatness at the NHL level, but could be one amongst others.
Let's have a look at averages in wins, losses, overtime losses, GAA, save percentage and shootouts for Eastern Conference ''white-paded'' goalies and ''non white-paded'' goalies:
WPG (9): 23-18-5, 2.74, .906, 2
NWPG: (6): 21-14-4, 2,43, .919, 3
As the stats show us, this ''theory'' is not absolute and do not trust them at 100%, as only 4 out of the 9 WPG have a save percentage over .910, which makes the average not that great for evaluation... but better than nothing.
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