Armchair Hockey Scout

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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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Eric Comrie

Winnipeg Jets Goaltender

A .9141 in 20 games from a career .8984, and the smallest possible sample of the best crease in hockey.

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
2024-25WPG209101472.392547.914
2025-26 so far——————————
Career—77333632243.1142205.898

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

9-10-1 in 20 games with a .9141, a 2.39 average and 2 shutouts, facing 547 shots.

It is comfortably the best full season of his career and it came behind the club that suppressed chances 8th-best in the league. A backup’s .9141 in twenty games behind that defence is a solid result rather than a discovery.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 190 and small for the modern position, which means the technique has to be exact and mostly is. He plays a conventional depth and he is square more often than not.

The rebound control is the weakness and it has been at every stop — a career .8984 across 77 games says the second chance goes to the wrong place too often. The lateral recovery is quick, which is the compensation a goaltender this size needs.

The Mental Game

He has been an NHL goaltender for nine seasons and has 77 games in them. He went 2-7 with an .874 in Buffalo two years ago and was out of a job, came back here, and posted the best numbers of his life.

He is 30 and the job is twenty starts behind the reigning Hart Trophy winner, which is the narrowest role in hockey and he has now done it well twice.

The Intangibles

A second-round pick of Winnipeg in 2013 — 59th overall — and 77 games across four organisations, most of them here.

He is 30 and the son of a hockey family. He has spent his career being the man who plays when Connor Hellebuyck does not, which last season was nineteen times.

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.

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

    “**The rebound control is the weakness and it has been at every stop** — a career .8984 across 77 games says the second chance goes to the wrong place too often.”

  • lateral-recoverya strength· post-to-post, and across the slot

    “The lateral recovery is quick, which is the compensation a goaltender this size needs.”