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First in the nation in save percentage and second in goals-against average (GAA) and shutouts, the Crimson senior would appear to have a legitimate claim to the title of the nation’s top netminder—or arguably its top player—as balloting for year-end awards and the post-season draw near...
...bandied about in relation to first-team All-American or the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, presented annually to college hockey’s top performer. Not even in the ECAC. That distinction would appear to belong to Cornell’s David McKee, who leads the country in both GAA and shutouts while trailing only Grumet-Morris in save percentage. As recently as Tuesday, pundits from insidecollegehockey.com named the Big Red sophomore as one of their five current favorites for the Hobey Baker, while relegating Grumet-Morris to a second-tier watch list...
...Jordan Sigalet—curently trailing only Tarkki in fan voting—and a host of other goaltenders from around the country aren’t having fine seasons. Many of them are, of course, as is the case each year. But a cursory glance at the GAA and save percentage figures is enough to show that Grumet-Morris and McKee are, at least until this point in the season, in a league all their...
Second, the disparity between McKee’s GAA (1.29) and Grumet-Morris’ (1.55) both overshadows other factors which explain away the difference between the two figures and distracts attention away from Grumet-Morris’ narrower advantage in save percentage. Grumet-Morris’ GAA is inflated by one lousy statistical performance which was largely beyond his control—Harvard’s 8-6 win over Princeton on Nov. 13, in which the Tigers scored two power-play goals and a third with an extra skater in the contest’s final...
Suddenly, the save-percentage and other comparisons become all the more relevant. Yes, McKee’s GAA is just 0.8 percent lower than Grumet-Morris,’ but that indicator fails to take into account both the caliber of the opponent and the quantity of shots faced...