According to their goaltending analysis, goalies drive 27% of winning. According to NHLnumbers.com, NHL teams spent $116M above minimum salary on goaltenders this year. That's about 9% of the total salary above minimum in the league, and has been between 8.6% and 10.4% over the last four seasons.
In essence, they're telling us that goaltenders are paid 1/3 of their total value.
I'd like to see some proof of that…Once we've got that, we can move on to the intricacies of the model.