Putting Up Numbers· NHL

Joseph Woll’s saves at home and away

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Against his share of what goalies usually saved against his opponents, Joseph Woll was 0.7 saves over at home and 3.2 saves over away in 2026-27, 4 games against 4. The plain averages are 27.0 and 28.5, a difference of 1.5.

4 games at home is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.

saves a game over expected

A −2.6 difference in saves over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A −1.5 difference in saves at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Joseph Woll’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultsavesExpected
Oct 1, 2026@NJDL4128.3
Oct 3, 2026vsCARL3728.6
Oct 8, 2026@OTTL2422.7
Oct 11, 2026vsCARL2629.3
Oct 15, 2026@DETL2426.2
Oct 19, 2026vsCOLW2426.4
Oct 24, 2026vsANAL2121.1
Oct 28, 2026@WSHL2523.9

Method

  • Expected is what the opponent allowed goalies in its other 2026-27 games, plus 0.0 for the home team (half the league’s home edge for goalies that season), nothing at a neutral site, scaled to his share of his team’s goalies’ saves in his games, 100%.
  • Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 100% of the difference the model predicts.
  • The shuffle keeps the season’s shape: the games are cut into stretches, one a 15 games, where the dates leave the least variance, each game is read against its stretch, and the sides are shuffled only inside each stretch.