Calvin Pickard — 2017–18 stats and season rank | IceSheet
Calvin Pickard
Minnesota Wild·#31·Goalie · Catches left
Age 34 · 6′1″ · 206 lb · Moncton, NB, CAN
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Games1T-87th in NHL
Starts1T-84th in NHL
Save %.857
GAA3.83
Shutouts0T-56th in NHL
Shots faced28…
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Traditional statistics cover all situations. Supporting five-on-five analyses use completed games, raw adjustment and exposure from xG model v4. The two samples can differ.
90th in NHL
Goals saved against expectation, and where the shots came from
Goals saved against expectation, and where the shots came from
Calvin Pickard faced
44 attempts2.31 xG4 G
Goal4Shot on goal24Missed shot16Blocked shot0Larger dot = higher xG
Shooting by zone
Zone
Shots
xG
GA
SV%
Point
19
0.6
1
94.7%
High slot
9
0.7
1
88.9%
Inner slot
6
0.6
1
83.3%
Left circle
4
0.1
0
100.0%
Outer slot
3
0.2
1
66.7%
Right circle
3
0.1
0
100.0%
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Stopping evidence. Allowed a goal on 9.1% of attempts faced vs 5.2% expected (3.8 points more), with the most goals above expectation from the point.
Shot types44 attempts
Wrist50%
Slap30%
Deflected9%
Backhand7%
Snap5%
High-danger chances
Expected against
0.8
Goals against
2
Save %
77.8%
Model 90.6%
9 high-danger attempts · Model is the expected conversion on those attempts.
2017–18 playoffs
Official playoff totals · no peer ranks, since playoff samples are too small for a fair comparison
Did not play in the playoffs this season.
Every playoff run
All covered playoff runs (2015–16 onward). Traditional totals are all situations; analytical columns use matching five-on-five coverage.
An em dash means unavailable, not zero. A partial season remains partial. Where a panel reports evidence coverage, its rates use only the covered games. History never substitutes a different model, and a missing appearance interrupts a rolling model window.
Shot maps use the same shot model as Game Center and show which model version scored recent shots beside the rink. Older seasons can use earlier model versions. High danger means a model scoring probability of at least 0.20 on an unblocked attempt; for goalies, medium danger is 0.08 to 0.20 and low is below 0.08.
Special-team buckets include the wider recorded man-advantage and man-down states, read from the player’s own team; for a goalie, penalty kill means facing a power play. Their ranks need 100 recorded minutes and at least 30 qualified peers; below 100 minutes, penalty-kill percentiles are provisional. Playoff values have no ranks or percentiles. Team share is player ice time divided by team ice time in that situation, over the games the player dressed. Zone starts describe faceoff-started five-on-five shifts and exclude on-the-fly starts.
Penalties count events, including one for a double minor; bench and served-by roles are excluded, and victimless infractions have no drawn role. EPV added sums changes in the probability that the possessing team scores next; it is not standings points or an isolated player grade. Rolling windows never cross seasons or season types, and a missed game is not a zero-performance appearance. Career rates use summed counts and exposure, never an average of season rates; a missing contributing season withholds its career metric, and Performance begins in 2023–24.
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How to read these comparisons
Each axis ranks the player against qualified peers. The dashed reference is the percentile of their arithmetic mean, which need not be the 50th percentile. Ties share a midrank.
Goalies need 15 covered appearances, 500 verified five-on-five shots on goal and 90% shot and appearance coverage; high danger also needs 50 high-danger shots, mid and low danger need 100 tier shots, and rebound suppression needs 600 eligible saves across 15 appearances with eligible saves. At least 30 goalies must qualify per axis. Playoff ranks are withheld. A reviewed axis whose own evidence fails is withheld and shown with its reason rather than ranked. These workload rules do not express statistical confidence.
Position uses the NHL listed primary position available now; it does not establish historical position or actual deployment. Broad groups are forwards, defence and goalies. This version uses the current model’s covered games only.
Season vs reference
All situations
Metric2017–18ReferenceDiff
.857.904−.047
per 60 minutes3.832.98+0.86
per game28.0029.22-1.22
Reference: 2016–17 · 50 games.
Recent-history profile
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Goalie history radar
Stopping and rebound results across recent NHL seasons, compared with a fixed goalie reference. Includes previous seasons; separate from the selected-season standing above.
Through Oct 13, 2026. Radar and percentiles use the same checked history; season ranking qualification does not hide this profile.
Bands show position percentiles; axis labels show current rolling values.
Dashed outline: average goalie in the fixed reference. Outside = above average; inside = below average. All axes point outward for stronger results.
Player value: -0.12 Peer range: -0.60 – 1.49 residual per 100
MeanCalvin Pickard
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Player -0.12 · mean 0.49. Higher raw values rank higher.
Rolling profile against a fixed reference group
Fixed rolling-profile reference · 52 players. Values use the same history and smoothing as the radar.
History, sample sizes & calculation
Higher radar percentiles mean stronger recorded results against the fixed reference, including older seasons. These are separate from this season’s league percentile. Each player has a different amount of covered history. Weighted minutes and attempts give recent games more influence. “Prior” is the share contributed by a frozen league baseline: it is higher when a player has less evidence, and differs by metric because each uses its own smoothing strength. It is not a confidence score.
Overall stopping · residual per 100
390.2 weighted verified SOG · 72% prior
Mid-danger stopping · residual per 100
146.6 weighted verified SOG · 63% prior
Low-danger stopping · residual per 100
217.6 weighted verified SOG · 90% prior
Rebound suppression · residual per 100
342.7 weighted eligible saves · 92% prior
Verified 5v5 stopping and rebound profile. High-danger stopping is withheld; these overlapping axes are not added together.
History through Oct 13, 2026. Recent games count more than older games. History carries across seasons and stays unchanged while inactive.
