Putting Up Numbers· NHL

Sergei Bobrovsky’s saves at home and away

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Against his share of what goalies usually saved against his opponents, Sergei Bobrovsky was 1.4 saves over at home and 3.3 saves over away in 2026-27, 7 games against 4. The plain averages are 25.3 and 27.8, a difference of 2.5. All 3 division games were at home.

4 games away 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 −1.9 difference in saves over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A −2.5 difference in saves at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
Sergei Bobrovsky’s games, 2026-27, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultsavesExpected
Sep 29, 2026vsMTLL2123.9
Oct 3, 2026vsOTTL2622.6
Oct 8, 2026@VGKL4024.1
Oct 10, 2026@COLW3026.0
Oct 15, 2026vsBUFL3024.5
Oct 17, 2026vsNYIL1623.1
Oct 19, 2026vsSJSW3024.5
Oct 22, 2026vsNYRW2122.3
Oct 26, 2026@CGYL2925.2
Oct 28, 2026@SEAL1222.6
Nov 3, 2026vsUTAL3326.2

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.