This is the 2023-24 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Arvid Soderblom
Chicago Blackhawks Goaltender
Two wins in fifteen games, a .8940, and an undrafted 24-year-old asked to do it behind the worst defence in the West.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | CHI | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 5.01 | 0 | 95 | .863 |
| 2022-23 | CHI | 15 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 48 | 3.45 | 0 | 453 | .894 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 18 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 61 | 3.69 | 0 | 548 | .889 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
15 games, 2-10-2, a .8940 save percentage and a 3.45 goals-against average on 453 shots, with no shutouts.
His career line is 18 games and a .8887. There is no NHL record here to read, and the one that exists was compiled in front of a club that finished 28th in expected goals against a sixty.
Petr Mrázek finished the same season on .8942 in the same crease. Whatever separates these two goaltenders, 453 shots and 1,248 shots did not find it.
The Finesse Game
453 shots across 15 appearances is 30 a night for a 23-year-old in his first real look, on a club that lost 49 games.
This book has no goaltender tracking of any kind — no shot-location breakdown of saves, no rebound measurement, no timing of anything. The save percentage and the shots faced are the entire record for a goaltender, and for one with 18 career games that record says nothing at all.
He is 6-3, Swedish, and plays a controlled positional game rather than an athletic one. That is watching, not measurement, and the report should be honest that it is.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 180, which is tall and very light for a modern goaltender, and the frame is the thing that got him signed.
He is 24 in this edition’s season with 18 NHL games. There is no durability record in either direction and there will not be one for two more years.
The Intangibles
He arrived without a pick attached — undrafted out of Sweden and signed by Chicago as a free agent.
A rebuilding club with the first overall pick has one genuinely useful thing to give a young goaltender, which is games in a season that does not matter. He is going to get a lot of them, and the numbers they produce should not be read as a verdict for at least two years.
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 arrived without a pick attached”