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39

Connor Ingram

Utah Hockey Club Goaltender

Six shutouts — tied for the most of any goaltender in this edition.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2021-22NSH3120113.71091.879
2022-23ARI276138893.371960.907
2023-24ARI50232131362.9161461.907
2024-25 so far——————————
Career—803036112363.1072512.906

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, 23-21-3 with a .9069 and a 2.91, 6 shutouts, facing 1,461 shots.

Six shutouts is tied for the most of any goaltender in this edition, and the .9069 is the twenty-first figure among the fifty-three men who played twenty-five games. Both of those are true at once and the second one is the harder number to explain away.

The Physical Game

He is 6-1 and 218.

He is short for a modern goaltender and covers the net by being square rather than by being large, playing the top of the crease and letting the shot come to him. The compactness is the strength and the low glove side is where a 6-1 goaltender has to be beaten.

The Mental Game

A career .9061 across 80 games with 7 shutouts.

Six of those seven shutouts came last season, in fifty games behind a club that finished twenty-seventh. A goaltender who steals whole games while posting an ordinary rate over the season is a goaltender whose bad nights are very bad, and that is the shape of his ledger.

The Intangibles

Eighty-eighth overall in 2016 by Tampa Bay, three seasons, and Utah is his second organisation.

Thirty career wins in 80 games. He is 27, he did not play more than 27 games in a season until last one, and 50 games is the first real workload anybody has given him.

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.

  • plays-aggressivea strength· meets the shooter at the top of the crease

    “He is short for a modern goaltender and covers the net by being square rather than by being large, playing the top of the crease and letting the shot come to him.”

  • tracks-traffiche lacks it· finds it through a screen

    “The compactness is the strength and the low glove side is where a 6-1 goaltender has to be beaten.”