This is the 2025-26 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Arvid Soderblom
Chicago Blackhawks Goaltender
An .8979 across 36 games, and 21.9 goals of goaltending given away by a club that finished 8th in finishing.
| 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 | CHI | 32 | 5 | 22 | 2 | 114 | 3.92 | 0 | 942 | .879 |
| 2024-25 | CHI | 36 | 10 | 18 | 7 | 111 | 3.18 | 0 | 1087 | .898 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 86 | 17 | 52 | 11 | 286 | 3.55 | 0 | 2577 | .889 |
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
10-18-7 in 36 games, .8979 with a 3.18 average and no shutouts on 1,087 shots.
Chicago’s goaltending came in 21.9 goals worse than the chances faced, 29th in the league, on a club that was 8th in finishing at 10.7 goals above expectation. Almost the whole of that first number belongs to the two goaltenders who split the season, and the club has kept the worse of them.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 180, and light for the frame, and the game is reactive rather than positional. He is quick and he moves a great deal, and he is square less often than he should be.
The rebound control is the specific weakness — pucks come back into the slot and he then has to make a second save from a scramble, which on a club conceding this many interior chances is a compounding problem.
The Mental Game
Four seasons of being the goaltender on the worst team in the conference, and a save percentage that has been under .900 in three of them.
He has not visibly stopped working and there is no record of him unravelling within a game. There is also no stretch in the record where he has looked like an NHL starter.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, signed out of Sweden, and four NHL seasons that have not produced a league-average save percentage.
At 26 the projection is a backup, and the club appears to have accepted that by trading for Spencer Knight. A team rebuilding around a 20-year-old centre cannot keep giving away 20 goals a season in the crease.
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
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
“The rebound control is the specific weakness — pucks come back into the slot and he then has to make a second save from a scramble”
“Undrafted, signed out of Sweden, and four NHL seasons that have not produced a league-average save percentage.”