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2024-25 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Andrei Vasilevskiy

Tampa Bay Lightning Goaltender

A career .9167 across 477 games, and an .8998 last season.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2014-15TBL16751342.361415.918
2015-16TBL2411100582.761646.910
2016-17TBL50231771232.6121480.917
2017-18TBL65441731672.6282075.919
2018-19TBL53391041282.4061713.925
2019-20TBL52351431332.5631605.917
2020-21TBL4231101932.2151237.925
2021-22TBL63391851562.4921868.916
2022-23TBL60342241592.6541875.915
2023-24TBL52302021482.9021477.900
2024-25 so far——————————
Career—4772931433011992.563414391.917

This Season So Far

The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

52 games, 30-20-2 with an .8998 and a 2.90, 2 shutouts, facing 1,477 shots.

The club’s goaltending came in 31.4 goals worse than the chances it faced — the worst figure in this edition — behind the tenth-best chance suppression in the league. The .8998 is the first season below .910 of his career; the nine before it ran between .9102 and .9253.

The Physical Game

He is 6-4 and 223.

He is enormous and plays deep and square, taking away the whole lower half of the net by size and position rather than by moving to meet anything. The push across the crease is still fast for a man that large, and the rebounds go to the corners more often than they sit.

The Mental Game

A career .9167 across 477 games with 293 wins and 34 shutouts.

That is fifth in this edition for career wins and fifth for career save percentage among goaltenders with two hundred games. One season at .8998 against nine above .910 is a data point, not a trend, and thirty wins out of it says he was still winning games he had no business winning.

The Intangibles

Nineteenth overall in 2012 by Tampa Bay, ten seasons, one organisation, and 477 games.

Two hundred and ninety-three career wins against 143 losses. He has played every one of his 477 NHL games for the same club and has been its best player for most of them.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

  • a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

  • plays-deepa strength· takes the net away by occupying it

    “He is enormous and plays deep and square, taking away the whole lower half of the net by size and position rather than by moving to meet anything.”

  • rebound-controla strength· where the second chance ends up

    “The push across the crease is still fast for a man that large, and the rebounds go to the corners more often than they sit.”

  • leadershipa strength· the room, and who holds it

    “Two hundred and ninety-three career wins against 143 losses.”