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2025-26 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Connor Ingram

Edmonton Oilers Goaltender

An .8817 in 22 games, and a goaltender whose season was interrupted by something more important than hockey.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2021-22NSH3120113.71091.879
2022-23ARI276138893.371960.907
2023-24ARI50232131362.9161461.907
2024-25UTA22984663.270558.882
2025-26 so far——————————
Career—1023944153023.1473070.902

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

9-8-4 in 22 games, .8817 with a 3.27 average on 558 shots with Utah, in a season he stepped away from in March to enter the player assistance programme.

The number is poor and it is not the story. He had stopped .907 with 6 shutouts the season before.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 218, and the game is athletic and aggressive — he challenges hard, cuts down angles, and relies on getting to the puck rather than on covering the net.

The rebound control is the weakness and the lateral recovery is ordinary, which is a difficult combination behind a club that gives up second chances. At his best he is a genuinely capable NHL starter for stretches.

The Mental Game

He has been open about obsessive-compulsive disorder throughout his career and stepped away twice to address it, most recently in March.

That is a health matter and not a character one, and it should be read as such. What it means for a projection is that the club cannot plan on a fixed number of starts, which is precisely the risk a third goaltender is supposed to absorb rather than create.

The Intangibles

A third-round pick, three organisations, and a career that has included a 6-shutout season and two interruptions.

Edmonton signed him as insurance behind a crease that has cost it two finals. At the price it is a reasonable bet with an obvious ceiling and an obvious floor.

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
  • ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
  • 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

    “the game is athletic and aggressive — he challenges hard, cuts down angles”

  • plays-deephe lacks it· takes the net away by occupying it

    “relies on getting to the puck rather than on covering the net”

  • rebound-controlhe lacks it· where the second chance ends up

    “The rebound control is the weakness”

  • lateral-recoverypresent and ordinary· post-to-post, and across the slot

    “the lateral recovery is ordinary”