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Frederik Andersen

Carolina Hurricanes Goaltender

A .9317 with three shutouts, and sixteen games of it.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2013-14ANA282050602.290783.923
2014-15ANA54351251232.3831436.914
2015-16ANA432297882.3031086.919
2016-17TOR663316141692.6742052.918
2017-18TOR66382151822.8152211.918
2018-19TOR60361671622.7711958.917
2019-20TOR52291371432.8531577.909
2020-21TOR241383702.960668.895
2021-22CAR52351431112.1741431.922
2022-23CAR3421111822.481849.903
2023-24CAR161320281.843410.932
2024-25 so far——————————
Career—4952951275212182.562714461.916

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

13-2-0 with a .9317, a 1.84 average and 3 shutouts in 16 games, facing 410 shots.

It is the best rate posted by any goaltender on any roster in this chapter, and there were sixteen games of it. He has not played sixty in a season since 2019-20.

The Physical Game

6-4 and 229, and he plays deep and large. He sets in the crease and lets the frame take the top of the net away rather than moving for it, and he is square almost without exception — there is very little wasted motion and almost no reaching.

The rebound control is very good and it is the method: he absorbs rather than deflects, and the second chance does not arrive. The puck-handling is competent and he will play it behind the net.

The style is the least athletic in this chapter and it is also the most efficient, which is what a 35-year-old with this injury record needs.

The Mental Game

Four hundred and ninety-five games, 295 wins and a career .9158 across eleven seasons and three clubs, with 27 shutouts.

Thirteen wins in sixteen games says nothing has gone. What has gone is the availability, and it has gone repeatedly and in the same way.

The Intangibles

Eighty-seventh overall in 2012 by Anaheim, six seasons in Toronto, and 495 games at 35.

If he plays fifty games this club is a Cup contender and if he plays sixteen again it is not, and that sentence has been true for three straight seasons. A club that is first in the league at suppressing chances has the cheapest possible route to ten more points and it runs entirely through his body.

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
  • ordinaryraised, and called ordinary

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

    “**6-4 and 229, and he plays deep and large.** He sets in the crease and lets the frame take the top of the net away rather than moving for it, and he is square almost without exception — there is very little wasted motion and almost no reaching.”

  • rebound-controla strength· where the second chance ends up

    “**The rebound control is very good** and it is the method: he absorbs rather than deflects, and the second chance does not arrive.”

  • puck-handlingpresent and ordinary· starts the breakout himself

    “**The puck-handling is competent** and he will play it behind the net.”