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Matt Villalta

Buffalo Sabres

Matt Villalta

BUFGoalieJersey number #31

2024-25 regular season

Games played
1
Save percentage
.903
Goals against average
3.00
Shutouts
0

OddPuck ranks and projects skaters only. There is no goalie pool to rank him in, and a per-game rate times his club’s schedule would assume he plays every game, which no goalie does. This page is his record.

How he got here

Each regular season

Open play · regular season · goals

Goals saved against the league average

  • 2023-24: −1.9 goals saved beyond the league average over 2 games and 48 unblocked attempts faced
  • 2024-25: 0.0 goals saved beyond the league average over 1 games and 45 unblocked attempts faced
Goals saved against the league average: what a league-average goalie would have allowed on the unblocked attempts he faced in open play, minus the goals he allowed. The shot model’s expected goals are scaled so the league’s goalies together match the goals they allowed that season, so each season is measured against its own average. Above zero, he saved more than an average goalie would have. GP: games played; Att: unblocked attempts faced.

All shots · regular season

Save percentage

  • 2023-24: .828 save percentage over 2 games, 72 minutes and 29 shots faced; league .903
  • 2024-25: .903 save percentage over 1 games, 60 minutes and 31 shots faced; league .900
Save percentage, regular season. The axis does not start at zero. GP: games played; Min: minutes played; SA: shots faced.

Detail

The record

Regular season

Regular season, by season
Season
2024-2511313.9033.000
2023-2421295.8284.170
No win-loss record — the NHL credits a decision to whoever was in net, not to the starter
A decision goes to whichever goalie was in net when the winning goal was scored, which is a play-by-play fact rather than part of a box-score line — and 884 team-games here used more than one goalie, so crediting the starter would be wrong often enough to matter. Save percentage is total saves over total shots faced. A shutout is a game this goalie was the only one his team used and conceded nothing, which is the NHL’s own rule and needs no minimum-minutes cutoff.

Last 3 games

Last 3 games, newest first
DateOpp
Started. Apr 14@ NSH31283.90360:00
Started. Feb 19vs EDM25205.80058:19
Relieved. Feb 16vs CAR4401.00013:39

marks a game he started.

Goaltending against the league average · open play, regular season

Goaltending by season: goals against, against a league-average goalie on the same attempts
Season
2024-253.030.0145
2023-243.15−1.9248

Saved vs avg: what a league-average goalie would have allowed on the same attempts (Exp GA), minus the goals he allowed.

No goalie market is modelled, so no markets are shown.