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Frederik Andersen

Thirty-five wins and a .9224 in 52 games, on a club whose goaltending finished 18.7 goals ahead of its chances.

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

2013-14	ANA	28	20	5	0	60	2.29	0	783	.923
2014-15	ANA	54	35	12	5	123	2.38	3	1436	.914
2015-16	ANA	43	22	9	7	88	2.30	3	1086	.919
2016-17	TOR	66	33	16	14	169	2.67	4	2052	.918
2017-18	TOR	66	38	21	5	182	2.81	5	2211	.918
2018-19	TOR	60	36	16	7	162	2.77	1	1958	.917
2019-20	TOR	52	29	13	7	143	2.85	3	1577	.909
2020-21	TOR	24	13	8	3	70	2.96	0	668	.895
2021-22	CAR	52	35	14	3	111	2.17	4	1431	.922
2022-23 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	445	261	114	51	1108	2.59	23	13202	.916

This Season So Far

The 2022-23 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

52 games, 35-14-3, a .9224 save percentage and a 2.17 goals-against average, with 4 shutouts on 1,431 shots faced.

Thirty-five wins and a .9224, one season after being run out of Toronto. He had posted a .8951 in his final Maple Leafs year.

Carolina’s goaltending finished 18.7 goals ahead of the chances it faced, 4th in the league, and the club allowed 202 goals — fewer than any team in hockey.

The caveat is the defence and it is a real one. Carolina took 55.2 per cent of the chances at five-on-five, 3rd, and its penalty kill was the best in the league. 27 shots a night in front of the best structure in the East is the friendliest crease in the conference. The 18.7 says he was still better than it.

The Physical Game

6-4 and 229, and he takes away the net by filling it and staying square rather than by reaching. He is an economical, upright goaltender who does not scramble, which is what makes the rebound control workable despite ordinary lateral quickness.

His career line across 445 games is a .9161 with 261 wins, and last season was comfortably the best of it by save percentage.

The Mental Game

Five seasons in Toronto ended with a playoff record everybody remembers and a save percentage nobody could defend, and he arrived here on a two-year contract that was widely read as a fallback.

Then he won 35 games. Whether that is a goaltender restored or a goaltender rescued by a system is the question this page cannot answer, and 1,431 shots is not enough to.

The Intangibles

Eighty-seventh overall in 2012 by Anaheim — he had also been drafted in 2010 by Carolina and not signed — and 445 games across Anaheim, Toronto and now here.

He is 33, in the last year of that contract, sharing the net with a thirty-three-year-old on his own last year. Carolina has the best defensive structure in hockey and two goaltenders who will both be free agents in July, and Pyotr Kochetkov, who played three games last season, is the only one signed beyond it.

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.

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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.

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“6-4 and 229, and he takes away the net by filling it and staying square rather than by reaching”