This is the 2025-26 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Charlie Lindgren
Washington Capitals Goaltender
An .8944 in 39 games, from an undrafted goaltender who posted a .9113 the season before.
| 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 | WSH | 39 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 104 | 2.73 | 1 | 985 | .894 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 149 | 73 | 53 | 15 | 394 | 2.78 | 9 | 4158 | .905 |
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
20-14-3 in 39 games with an .8944, a 2.73 average and 1 shutout, facing 985 shots.
It is a bad number and the wins column hides it. He posted a .9113 with 6 shutouts in 50 games the season before, so this is a genuine fall rather than a level, and it came behind a defence that was 20th at suppressing chances.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 190 and small for the modern position, which means the technique has to be exact. He plays a conventional depth and he is square more often than not.
The rebound control is the weakness — a career .9052 across 149 games with an .8944 last year says the second chance goes to the wrong place too often. The puck-handling is genuinely good and he is comfortable playing it behind his net.
The Mental Game
He was an undrafted college goaltender who spent six seasons as an emergency option in Montreal and St. Louis and played 29 games in all of them.
He is 31 and has now been a legitimate NHL backup for three years. An .8944 at 31 in a contract year is the kind of season that ends careers of this shape, and he has been written off before.
The Intangibles
Undrafted out of St. Cloud State and 149 NHL games across three organisations.
He is 31. Twenty wins on an .8944 is the clearest illustration in this edition of why the wins column tells you almost nothing, and it happened on a club that finished first in the Eastern Conference.
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.
“**Undrafted out of St. Cloud State** and 149 NHL games across three organisations.”
“**The rebound control is the weakness** — a career .9052 across 149 games with an .8944 last year says the second chance goes to the wrong place too often.”
“**The puck-handling is genuinely good** and he is comfortable playing it behind his net.”