Vitek Vanecek

Vitek Vanecek

G · Left catchesAge 306'2" · 188 lbHavlickuv Brod, Czechia
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Wins by season

Career NHL wins, ending with the projection at a 60-start workload (violet).

21: 21 pts212122: 21 pts2123: 34 pts342324: 17 pts1725: 5 pts52522PROJ26: 5 pts (projected 22)26

Pool value

Projected full-season fantasy worth.

54/100
why 54?

Every fantasy goalie category, scored on the season model's projections at a 60-start workload:

  • proj wins22 × 4.5+99
  • proj shutouts2.8 × 3+8.4
  • SV% 0.892 vs .900-0.008 × 250-2
  • GAA 3.07 vs 2.70-0.37 × 50-18.5
  • total87 pool points  ·  an elite goalie season scores 16087 = 54/100

Weights: a win is worth 4.5 (the heaviest goalie category in every format), a shutout 3, SV% pays 250 per full point above .900 and GAA pays 50 per hundredth below 2.70. 100 = a Vezina-tier season (~26 W, 6 SO, .918, 2.45). Projections shrink SV% toward career and league averages because save percentage repeats poorly year to year; wins lean on team quality for the same reason.

Season stats — goaltending

NHL regular-season goaltending numbers from the league's goalie feed — wins, GAA, save% and shutouts, season by season. Skater columns (G/A/P) would be all zeros for a goalie, so they're gone. The 60-start proj line is a model, not a pace: save% is projected with empirical-Bayes shrinkage toward career and league (save% is weakly repeatable — Schuckers 2016; a James–Stein study on NHL save% found shrinkage beats the raw estimate 2.2× in error), GAA is rebuilt from its SA/60 × (1−SV%) identity, shutouts are the Poisson zero probability at the projected goals-against rate (Buttrey & Washburn, JQAS 2011), and wins are regressed toward the league per-start rate because wins are mostly a team stat (Berri & Brook 2010). Backtested on 330 goalie seasons from our own data: 26% lower save% error and 16% lower GAA error than naive last-year pace. Hockey's honest truth: save% barely repeats, so this model shrinks hard on purpose.

SeasonTeamGPGSWLOTGAASV%SO
20-21WSH3837211042.7190.7%2
21-22WSH4441211362.7390.6%4
22-23NJD5952341442.6490.4%3
23-24NJD322917933.1889.0%0
24-25SJS,FLA252451443.6288.4%1
25-26UTA221951332.9388.3%1
60-start projNYI6060223383.0789.2%2.8

Data via the public NHL API · 2026 Pro Hockey Stats