Anton Khudobin
Chicago Blackhawks Goaltender
A career .9161 across 259 games at thirty-six, and a .8788 in nine of them last season.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-10 | MIN | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.86 | 0 | 48 | .979 |
| 2010-11 | MIN | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1.59 | 1 | 86 | .942 |
| 2011-12 | BOS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.00 | 0 | 45 | .978 |
| 2012-13 | BOS | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 31 | 2.32 | 1 | 388 | .920 |
| 2013-14 | CAR | 36 | 19 | 14 | 1 | 80 | 2.30 | 1 | 1076 | .926 |
| 2014-15 | CAR | 34 | 8 | 17 | 6 | 87 | 2.72 | 1 | 874 | .900 |
| 2015-16 | ANA | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 2.69 | 1 | 175 | .909 |
| 2016-17 | BOS | 16 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 39 | 2.64 | 0 | 405 | .904 |
| 2017-18 | BOS | 31 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 76 | 2.56 | 1 | 876 | .913 |
| 2018-19 | DAL | 41 | 16 | 17 | 5 | 95 | 2.57 | 2 | 1232 | .923 |
| 2019-20 | DAL | 30 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 62 | 2.22 | 0 | 882 | .930 |
| 2020-21 | DAL | 32 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 76 | 2.54 | 3 | 799 | .905 |
| 2021-22 | DAL | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 28 | 3.63 | 0 | 231 | .879 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 259 | 114 | 91 | 33 | 597 | 2.50 | 11 | 7117 | .916 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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
9 games, 3-4-1, a .8788 save percentage and a 3.63 goals-against average for Dallas, with no shutouts on 231 shots faced. He arrived here in the summer.
Nine games and 231 shots is nothing at all, and no conclusion about a goaltender survives a sample that size in either direction.
It was his thirteenth NHL season and the fewest games of any of them.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 210, which is small for a modern goaltender, and the method is the one small goaltenders survive on: he challenges early, he tracks through traffic, and he gets across quickly because he has to.
Thirteen seasons and 259 games, a career .9161 — genuinely good, built almost entirely as a backup across six clubs.
The Mental Game
He has been a career backup who was excellent at it, had one extraordinary run at thirty-four, and then lost the job entirely.
Nine NHL games at thirty-six after a season in the minors is the last chapter of that, and a club that is rebuilding is where those chapters get written.
The Intangibles
Two hundred and sixth overall in 2004 by Minnesota, seventh round, and 259 NHL games at 36.
Chicago’s goaltending finished 27th in the league last season and every goaltender who produced that is gone. He is the veteran behind Petr Mrazek on a team that will concede a great deal, and the .9161 career line is a better guide to him than either of the last two seasons.
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.
“he challenges early, he tracks through traffic, and he gets across quickly because he has to”
“he tracks through traffic”