This is the 2023-24 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Frederik Andersen
Carolina Hurricanes Goaltender
Thirty-four games at .9034, behind the best defensive club in the league.
| 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 | CAR | 34 | 21 | 11 | 1 | 82 | 2.48 | 1 | 849 | .903 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 479 | 282 | 125 | 52 | 1190 | 2.58 | 24 | 14051 | .915 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
34 games, 21-11-1, a .9034 save percentage and a 2.48 goals-against average on 849 shots, with one shutout.
He had gone .9224 in 52 games for the same club the season before, so this is a real drop and it came in a season he was limited to 34 appearances.
The context matters more for him than for most goaltenders. Carolina was first in the league in expected goals against a sixty at 2.259 — the softest workload in hockey — and the club’s goaltending still graded out at minus-4.8, seventeenth. A .903 behind this defence is not the same .903 it would be behind anyone else’s.
The Finesse Game
849 shots across 34 games is 25 a night, which is a light diet, and they were low-danger shots as well as few of them. That is the whole difficulty of grading a Carolina goaltender: the club takes away the shots that separate goaltenders from each other.
He is 6-4 and 229 and plays a positional, blocking game — he takes the net away by occupying it rather than by moving to meet the puck. At his size that has always been the sensible approach and it is why his career line is 282 wins and a .9153 across 479 games.
What cannot be read from this season is whether the drop from .9224 to .9034 is decline or variance. 849 shots is not enough to tell, and neither is one season.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 229, and the size is the method. There is no puck-handling to speak of and the club does not build breakouts through him.
He is 34 in this edition’s season, in his tenth NHL year, and the games played have gone 66, 66, 60, 52, 24, 52, 34. That trend is the most legible thing in his file.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick at 87th overall by Anaheim in 2012 who has been a starter for a decade without ever quite being trusted as one.
Three goaltenders played at least 24 games for Carolina last season and they finished .9034, .9099 and .9091. Nothing separates them, which is either a statement about the three men or a statement about the club in front of them, and the numbers cannot say which.
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
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.
“he takes the net away by occupying it rather than by moving to meet the puck”