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Frederik Andersen

22 games at 36, an .8993, and a goaltender whose availability has decided two of this club's postseasons.

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	CAR	16	13	2	0	28	1.84	3	410	.932
2024-25	CAR	22	13	8	1	55	2.50	1	546	.899
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	517	308	135	53	1273	2.56	28	15007	.915

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

13-8-1 in 22 games, .8993 with a 2.50 average and 1 shutout on 546 shots.

22 games is the story and it is not new: he has played more than 34 in a season once in four years here. The .8993 is below his own standard and above his partner’s.

The Physical Game

6-4 and 229, and the game is the opposite of Kochetkov’s — large, still, positionally exact, and reliant on being in the right place rather than on getting there.

At his best that is an extremely efficient way to play behind a low-event team, because he does not have to move much and the chances are few. What has thinned with age is the recovery: when he is beaten laterally he no longer gets to the second puck, and a 36-year-old playing this style has a narrow margin.

The Mental Game

Twelve seasons, three organisations, and a temperament that has never wavered through a run of injuries that would have ended most careers.

He returns from long absences and plays well immediately, which is unusual and is most of the reason the club keeps re-signing him.

The Intangibles

At 36, on a one-year arrangement, as the more reliable half of a tandem that was 25th in the league.

The honest reading is that Carolina has spent four seasons hoping a 6-4 goaltender with a long injury history will be available in May, and it has not happened yet. The club is the best possession team in hockey and the crease is the only thing it has not solved.

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-deepa strength· takes the net away by occupying it
“6-4 and 229, and the game is the opposite of Kochetkov's — large, still, positionally exact, and reliant on being in the right place rather than on getting there.”
lateral-recoveryhe lacks it· post-to-post, and across the slot
“What has thinned with age is the recovery: when he is beaten laterally he no longer gets to the second puck, and a 36-year-old playing this style has a narrow margin.”