This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2025-26 report →
Cayden Primeau
Montreal Canadiens Goaltender
One hundred and ninety-ninth overall, a career .8938, and a .9097 in twenty-three games that has to mean something.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | MTL | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2.52 | 0 | 72 | .931 |
| 2020-21 | MTL | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 4.16 | 0 | 93 | .850 |
| 2021-22 | MTL | 12 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 40 | 4.62 | 0 | 302 | .868 |
| 2022-23 | MTL | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3.46 | 0 | 54 | .852 |
| 2023-24 | MTL | 23 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 66 | 2.99 | 2 | 731 | .910 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 44 | 11 | 21 | 6 | 133 | 3.46 | 2 | 1252 | .894 |
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
23 games, 8-9-4, a .9097 save percentage and a 2.99 goals-against average with 2 shutouts on 731 shots faced.
Two shutouts and the best save percentage he has managed in a real sample, at 24, against a career .8938 across 44 games. The four seasons before it read .9306, .8495, .8675 and .8519 in twenty-one games between them, which is why twenty-three games at .9097 is the first real evidence about him.
The Physical Game
He is 6-3 and 205 and plays high in his crease, challenging shooters and recovering across on athleticism rather than position.
Two career shutouts in 44 games, both of them last season. The glove is the best part of him. The aggressive depth costs him on the lateral play, and behind a club that concedes as much as this one there is a great deal of lateral play.
The Mental Game
Rebound control has been the weak point through five seasons of very short samples.
He tracks well and does not handle the puck much. Twenty-three games is not a season and a .9097 is not a verdict, but on a club with no other option behind Samuel Montembeault it is the most important twenty-three games anybody here played.
The Intangibles
A seventh-round pick in 2017 out of Farmington Hills, Michigan, two years at Northeastern, five seasons, and 44 games. His father played over nine hundred games in this league.
He is 25 and has been a professional for five years without establishing whether he can do this. Twenty-three games said yes; the forty-four before them said no.
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.
“He is 6-3 and 205 and plays high in his crease, challenging shooters and recovering across on athleticism rather than position.”
“He is 6-3 and 205 and plays high in his crease, challenging shooters and recovering across on athleticism rather than position.”
“The aggressive depth costs him on the lateral play, and behind a club that concedes as much as this one there is a great deal of lateral play.”
“Rebound control has been the weak point through five seasons of very short samples.”
“He tracks well and does not handle the puck much.”
“He tracks well and does not handle the puck much.”