- Devils prospect Mikhail Yegorov launched a public site tracking his own advanced stats
- The Boston University goalie logs 150-plus metrics from every game he plays
- Read below for the numbers he says save percentage hides
Most prospects let other people build the case for them. Mikhail Yegorov built the dashboard himself.
The New Jersey Devils goalie prospect launched yegorovstats.com on Friday, a public analytics platform covering every game of his career. He opened the pitch with a shot at the number everybody judges goalies on. “Save percentage is a lie,” read the first slide of his Instagram announcement.
Yegorov spelled out his reasoning in the caption:
“Save percentage. Goals against. That’s how the world decides if a goalie is good or bad. But nobody knows if he’s actually outperforming his environment. So I built a platform that shows the full picture.”
Take a look at the announcement:
The site runs well past the box score. Shot quality grades, rebound control, glove performance, playmaking, period by period splits and rolling five and 10 game windows, more than 150 metrics in all.
The headline is the gap between what he did and what a model expected him to do. His platform lists a .904 save percentage against an expected .847, a 2.71 goals-against average where the expectation was 3.58, and 92 goals allowed where the model called for 121.3.
Every shot he faces gets a letter grade. On A+ chances last season he stopped 119 of 156. On C-grade looks he was close to perfect at .986. His rebound control rate came in at 76.7 percent and his glove save rate at 71.6.
The 20-year-old went 49th overall to New Jersey in the 2024 draft and joined Boston University midway through the 2024-25 season. He took the starting job immediately and carried the Terriers to the national championship game, where they lost to Western Michigan.
Last season was harder. BU finished 17-17-2 and missed the NCAA Tournament for the first time in three years after bowing out in the Hockey East semifinals.
As Tyler Kuehl of Daily Faceoff pointed out, the project should sit well with Yegorov’s new boss. Sunny Mehta took over as Devils general manager in April after running analytics for the two-time champion Panthers, and he spent four years as New Jersey’s director of hockey analytics before that.
A 6-foot-5 goaltender who built his own expected goals model is not a hard sell in that front office.
Yegorov is back at BU for his junior year, and he says the dashboard updates for every game he plays from here on out.
