David Rittich

David Rittich

G · Left catchesAge 346'3" · 200 lbJihlava, Czechia
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Wins by season

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

18: 8 pts81819: 27 pts2720: 24 pts242021: 5 pts522: 6 pts62223: 9 pts924: 13 pts132425: 16 pts1630PROJ26: 14 pts (projected 30)26

Pool value

Projected full-season fantasy worth.

78/100
why 78?

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

  • proj wins30 × 4.5+135
  • proj shutouts2.9 × 3+8.7
  • SV% 0.893 vs .900-0.007 × 250-1.8
  • GAA 3.05 vs 2.70-0.35 × 50-17.5
  • total124 pool points  ·  an elite goalie season scores 160124 = 78/100

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
17-18CGY21168632.9290.4%0
18-19CGY454227952.6191.1%1
19-20CGY4948241863.0190.5%2
20-21CGY,TOR19155822.8690.1%1
21-22NSH18136443.8787.8%0
22-23WPG21189812.6790.1%0
23-24LAK262413832.1991.8%3
24-25LAK3431161422.8488.7%0
25-26NYI3028141032.7689.4%2
60-start projNJD6060302273.0589.3%2.9

Data via the public NHL API · 2026 Pro Hockey Stats