Cliché Check

A hot goalie can carry any team

Hot goaltending wins games while it lasts – but it almost never lasts. Save percentages fall straight back to league average.

Data through 2025/26

Partly

SHL Data through 2025/26 · SHL

Hot 10-game stretch

93.11%

Next 10 games

89.94%

League average

89.71%

What the data says

SHL 2020/21–2025/26: 276 ten-game windows with a team save percentage of 92.25% or better averaged 93.11%.
In the next ten games the same teams saved 89.94% (league 89.71%), and their points percentage fell from 69.8% to 55.2%.

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