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Charlie Lindgren
Washington Capitals Goaltender
Six shutouts — tied for the most of any goaltender in this edition — from a man nobody drafted.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | MTL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2.00 | 0 | 28 | .929 |
| 2016-17 | MTL | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1.48 | 0 | 59 | .949 |
| 2017-18 | MTL | 14 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 42 | 3.03 | 2 | 457 | .908 |
| 2018-19 | MTL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4.62 | 0 | 49 | .898 |
| 2019-20 | MTL | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 3.33 | 0 | 178 | .888 |
| 2021-22 | STL | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1.22 | 0 | 118 | .958 |
| 2022-23 | WSH | 31 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 86 | 3.05 | 0 | 853 | .899 |
| 2023-24 | WSH | 50 | 25 | 16 | 7 | 127 | 2.67 | 6 | 1431 | .911 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 110 | 53 | 39 | 12 | 290 | 2.79 | 8 | 3173 | .909 |
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
50 games, 25-16-7 with a .9113 and a 2.67, 6 shutouts, facing 1,431 shots.
Six shutouts is tied for the most of any goaltender in this edition, and it came behind a club that was twenty-second at preventing chances and scored 220 goals. Twenty-five wins on that team is the whole of the case for him.
The Physical Game
He is 6-2 and 190.
He is small for a modern goaltender and plays out at the top of the crease to make up for it, challenging the shooter and relying on the push across to recover. The angles are excellent and the second shot after a scramble is where a 190-pound goaltender loses one.
The Mental Game
A career .9086 across 110 games with 8 shutouts.
He played 60 NHL games in his first seven seasons and 50 in his eighth. Six shutouts and a .9113 in the first real workload anybody has given him is either a late arrival or a career year, and 110 games is not enough to say which.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, eight seasons, and Washington is his third organisation.
Fifty-three career wins against 39 losses in 110 games from a man nobody drafted. He is 30, he came out of college at 22, and he waited seven years for somebody to play him fifty times.