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Potential Vehanen Replacements
With die Eisbären Berlin Goalkeeper Petri Vehanen coming up nearing retirement and many fearing this to be his last season, I decided to do a fantasy search for potential replacements in case he decides not to renew his contract. I’ve used the data from the leagues analysis to come up with projected stats for each Goalkeeper. My search’s aim was to find a Goalkeeper who would be a good fit to do 50⁄50 load share with Marvin Cüpper as other DEL teams have been doing this and have been having good results with it and it helps with the development of Cüpper lining him up to be an overall starter for die Eisbären. ... Read more
Goalie League Stats Differences
As part of my Europe goalie analysis I decided it would be interesting to know what the differences a goalie has in their stats when they switch leagues. The leagues I included were SHL, NLA, DEL, Czech Extraliga, Liiga and the AHL (since many players from the AHL to Europe). What I did I scraped all the Goalkeepers off of EliteProspects and then went through their stats history and whenever the league changed from the previous row I marked it as a transfer. ... Read more
Goalie Transfer Sources
As part of my analysis of Goalkeeping within the Europe leagues, I decided it would be fun to find out where leagues get most of their Goalkeepers from. My approach was to get every Goalkeeper on EliteProspects and then track their movement between leagues via their stats. Any league that had less than five transfers were grouped within “Others”. Interestingly there is only one league that gets more of its goalies from other teams within itself is the DEL. ... Read more