Setting expectations for Detroit Red Wings netminder Ville Husso isn’t a particularly easy task. Sure, hockey analytics have come a long way over the past 12 or 13 years, and our ability to gain a deeper understanding of the game of hockey is only limited by our willingness to absorb new kinds of information. Still, there are plenty of holes in what both data and the eye test can tell us. That’s never as evident as it is when trying to predict what a goaltender will do in any given season.
Especially when that goalie is someone like Husso, who has all of 109 career starts to his name—56 of those starts coming last season alone.