.912 is the difference between 23/25 and 21/23, or 34/37 and 30/33. A better clutch argument for Kiprusoff would be to split out his save percentage by situation, e.g. save percentage while the game was tied or within one goal. He probably did play somewhat better in tight games, but given his overall record and his number of disastrous outings I still doubt that Kiprusoff's overall contribution to his team in terms of winning and losing games was a positive one in 2009. CG: I agree with you. I use .920 as the cut-off for 'elite', admittedly somewhat sloppily, because that was the sv% of the 5th best goalie last year. It's crude, but you could say that those were the 08/09 elite goalies - Thomas, Vokoun, Anderson, Backstrom and Luongo. I do disagree with this though: "I still doubt that Kiprusoff's overall contribution to his team in terms of winning and losing games was a positive one in 2009." as he only lost 24 games, which, I am sure a few must fall under the "where he got shellacked but the team was probably going to lose anyway" statement you made. Therefore, even conservatively if only 4 of those games qualify that's 20 losses. As you pointed out, the Flames won 21 one goal games, none by McElhinney, 15 with a .945sv% and 15 more .920% or better. I would say being conservative Kipper likely won as many games for the Flames as he lost, but quite frankly, that