Armchair Hockey Scout

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2024-25 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.

Tables are computed on this page from the 2024-25 edition’s index; readings rest on the players’ own pages; the model never counts. Twenty questions an hour.

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Eric Comrie

Winnipeg Jets Goaltender

An .8932 across 57 games and four organisations.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2016-17WPG110044.05039.897
2017-18WPG3120123.99094.872
2018-19WPG101055.01028.821
2019-20DET302094.28066.864
2020-21NJD110033.00033.909
2021-22WPG191051442.581550.920
2022-23BUF19991683.671594.885
2023-24BUF10270323.690254.874
2024-25 so far——————————
Career—57242621773.3821658.893

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

10 games, 2-7-0 with an .8740 and a 3.69, no shutouts, facing 254 shots.

Two wins in ten games behind a club that allowed the fewest goals in hockey. The .8740 is the lowest figure of any goaltender in this chapter and the sample is a tenth of a season.

The Physical Game

He is 6-1 and 190.

He is small for a modern goaltender and plays out at the top of the crease to make up for it, challenging the shooter and relying on the recovery. At 6-1 that is the only version available and it is why the shot through traffic finds space over his shoulder.

The Mental Game

A career .8932 across 57 games with 2 shutouts.

A .9200 in 19 games in 2021-22 and an .8855 in 19 the season after is the whole of the argument in both directions. Fifty-seven games across eight seasons is a career of ten-game samples.

The Intangibles

Fifty-ninth overall in 2013 by Winnipeg, eight seasons, and Winnipeg is his fourth organisation.

Twenty-four career wins against 26 losses in 57 games. He is 29, he was a second-round pick by this club, and he has now been its backup in three different spells.

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 small for a modern goaltender and plays out at the top of the crease to make up for it, challenging the shooter and relying on the recovery.”

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

    “At 6-1 that is the only version available and it is why the shot through traffic finds space over his shoulder.”