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A similar award has also
been presented to Telford Tigers’ netminder Denis Bell for the most shut outs
in the Laidler Conference last season.
Paul explained the
reason for the award:
“Daniel Brittle picked
up 4 shut-outs during the Hawks’ Moralee Conference championship season but
only finished in 4th place in the overall netminder standings which
are calculated on Save %, for which he got 92.16.
Stuart Ashton picked up
1 shut-out and came second in the overall table with his 92.75 Save %, just shy
of the Moralee’s top “saver” - Billingham’s James Flavell who stopped 93.83% of
the shots that he faced.
It just so happens that
statistics can say almost whatever you want them to say because, if you
calculated the overall standings using Goals per Game Average (like they used to
a long time ago), then Stuart Ashton would have come out top, followed by
Brittle in second and Solway’s Gary Russell in 3rd place.
Ironically, it is
because the Hawks played so well as a team last season and dominated so many of
their games, that Dan and Stu’s Sa% records are a little inferior to Flavell’s
– whose team obviously had a worse season.
Both Blackburn netminder faced considerably fewer shots per game than
other netminders in the league and their Sa% was skewed accordingly.
Because of this, I
thought there was a case for giving both Dan and Denis a special shut out
award."
You can find more fascinating stats from the 2014/15 season in NIHL North and South in the new Ice Hockey Review NIHL Yearbook - available now CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
You can find more fascinating stats from the 2014/15 season in NIHL North and South in the new Ice Hockey Review NIHL Yearbook - available now CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
