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Darcy Kuemper

A .9211 across 50 games at 34, the best save percentage of any starter in this edition.

Season	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	GA	GAA	SO	SA	SV%

2012-13	MIN	6	1	2	0	10	2.08	0	119	.916
2013-14	MIN	26	12	8	4	60	2.43	2	702	.914
2014-15	MIN	31	14	12	2	68	2.60	3	718	.905
2015-16	MIN	21	6	7	5	43	2.43	2	507	.915
2016-17	MIN	18	8	5	3	55	3.13	0	562	.902
2017-18	LAK/ARI	29	12	7	5	67	2.52	4	833	.920
2018-19	ARI	55	27	20	8	126	2.33	5	1677	.925
2019-20	ARI	29	16	11	2	65	2.22	2	903	.928
2020-21	ARI	27	10	11	3	66	2.56	2	710	.907
2021-22	COL	57	37	12	4	138	2.54	5	1754	.921
2022-23	WSH	57	22	26	7	154	2.87	5	1674	.908
2023-24	WSH	33	13	14	3	103	3.31	1	940	.890
2024-25	LAK	50	31	11	7	100	2.02	5	1267	.921
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	439	209	146	53	1055	2.54	36	12366	.915

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

31-11-7 in 50 games, .9211 with a 2.02 average and 5 shutouts on 1,267 shots — the best save percentage and the best goals-against average of any goaltender in this edition.

Los Angeles’s goaltending came in 13.1 goals better than the chances faced, 8th in the league, behind a defence that was 1st in the league at suppressing them. Both halves of that are real and the second makes the first easier.

The Physical Game

6-5 and 215, and he plays large and still. He takes away the top of the net without giving up the angles, tracks well through traffic, and does not travel further than the puck requires.

The rebound control is genuinely good and the puck-handling is a real asset behind a club that likes to break out cleanly. What has thinned with age is the recovery on a second play, which is the standard decline for a big positional goaltender.

The Mental Game

Thirteen seasons, five organisations, a Cup in Colorado, and a run of years where a poor season followed a good one with no obvious explanation.

Last season was as settled as he has been. He does not carry a bad goal and does not appear affected by a long layoff, which for a man who has played 50 games once in four years matters.

The Intangibles

A sixth-round pick, a Stanley Cup, and a career that has been genuinely excellent about half the time.

At 35 the projection is 45 games and a save percentage that will fall toward .910 — the .9211 is a top-five number in front of the league’s best defence, and both of those things have to keep being true. The club has no third option worth naming.

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-deepa strength· takes the net away by occupying it
“He takes away the top of the net without giving up the angles”
tracks-traffica strength· finds it through a screen
“tracks well through traffic”
rebound-controla strength· where the second chance ends up
“The rebound control is genuinely good”
puck-handlinga strength· starts the breakout himself
“the puck-handling is a real asset behind a club that likes to break out cleanly”
lateral-recoveryhe lacks it· post-to-post, and across the slot
“What has thinned with age is the recovery on a second play, which is the standard decline for a big positional goaltender.”