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2025-26 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 .9207 with 6 shutouts across 63 games, and 17.5 goals better than the chances faced.

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
2024-25TBL63382051362.1861716.921
2025-26 so far——————————
Career—5403311633513352.524016107.917

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

38-20-5 in 63 games with a .9207, a 2.18 average and 6 shutouts, facing 1,716 shots — among the heaviest workloads in the league.

The club’s goaltending came in 17.5 goals better than the chances faced, 4th in the league. He was a Vezina finalist and it was the best season he has had since 2022.

The Physical Game

6-4 and 223 and among the most technically complete goaltenders of his era. He is square almost without exception, the depth management is disciplined, and the size takes the top of the net away without him having to move for it.

The rebound control is genuinely excellent — pucks go to the corners rather than to the slot, which is the rarest of the goaltending skills and the reason a heavy workload does not turn into a bad save percentage. The glove is very good and the lateral recovery is quick for a man this size. He handles the puck well.

The Mental Game

He had back surgery in 2023 and posted a .9004 in the season after it, and there was a serious argument that the peak was over. He answered it with a .9207 and 38 wins.

He has won a Vezina, two Stanley Cups and a Conn Smythe, and his record in elimination games is among the best of the last twenty years. Nothing about the temperament has ever been in question.

The Intangibles

Nineteenth overall in 2012 and 540 games with a career .9171, 331 wins and 40 shutouts, all of it here.

He is 31 and signed through 2028. On a club that finished 4th in goaltending and 17th in chance suppression, he is the largest single reason the goals-against column reads 210.

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 square almost without exception, the depth management is disciplined, and the size takes the top of the net away without him having to move for it.”

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

    “**The rebound control is genuinely excellent** — pucks go to the corners rather than to the slot, which is the rarest of the goaltending skills and the reason a heavy workload does not turn into a bad save percentage.”

  • lateral-recoverya strength· post-to-post, and across the slot

    “The glove is very good and the lateral recovery is quick for a man this size.”

  • puck-handlinga strength· starts the breakout himself

    “He handles the puck well.”

  • leadershipa strength· the room, and who holds it

    “He has won a Vezina, two Stanley Cups and a Conn Smythe, and his record in elimination games is among the best of the last twenty years.”