This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Dan Vladar
Calgary Flames Goaltender
An .8815 in twenty games, and a career .8929 across seventy-five.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | BOS | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 3.40 | 0 | 149 | .886 |
| 2021-22 | CGY | 23 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 57 | 2.75 | 2 | 608 | .906 |
| 2022-23 | CGY | 27 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 72 | 2.91 | 0 | 667 | .892 |
| 2023-24 | CGY | 20 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 68 | 3.62 | 0 | 574 | .881 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 75 | 37 | 23 | 10 | 214 | 3.09 | 2 | 1998 | .893 |
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
8-9-2 with an .8815, a 3.62 average and no shutouts in 20 games, facing 574 shots.
The club’s goaltending came in 16.8 goals worse than the chances faced, 27th in the league, behind a defence that was 17th at suppressing them. He is part of it and so was the man who has since been traded.
The Physical Game
6-5 and 209, and he plays deep and large, letting the frame take the top of the net away rather than moving for it. It is the opposite arrangement to the man he is now splitting the crease with.
The rebound control is the weakness and it is the reason for the career number — a career .8929 across 75 games says the second chance goes back into the slot rather than to the corner.
The lateral recovery is the cost of the style, and at 6-5 it is a real one.
The Mental Game
Four seasons and 75 games across two clubs, none of them as a starter, and the save percentage has been .8929 across all of them.
Twenty games behind an average defence at an .8815 is the fourth season of the same number.
The Intangibles
Seventy-fifth overall in 2015 by Boston, out of Prague, and 75 NHL games at 27 with 37 wins.
He is now the experienced half of a crease containing eighteen NHL games and seventy-five, on a club that was 27th in goaltending and traded its starter. That is the whole of the position.