This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →

Igor Shesterkin

A career .9209 across 213 games, thirty-six wins, and 0.2 goals of club goaltending underneath it.

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

2019-20	NYR	12	10	2	0	29	2.52	0	424	.932
2020-21	NYR	35	16	14	3	83	2.62	2	987	.916
2021-22	NYR	53	36	13	4	106	2.07	6	1622	.935
2022-23	NYR	58	37	13	8	144	2.48	3	1719	.916
2023-24	NYR	55	36	17	2	141	2.58	4	1606	.912
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	213	135	59	17	503	2.43	15	6358	.921

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

55 games, 36-17-2, a .9122 save percentage and a 2.58 goals-against average with 4 shutouts on 1,606 shots faced.

Thirty-six wins on the Presidents’ Trophy winner, and the club’s goaltending came in 0.2 goals better than the chances it faced — fifteenth in the league. The .9122 is nine points below his own career .9209 and it is the worst of his five seasons.

The Physical Game

He is 6-1 and 199 and plays an aggressive, athletic game, challenging the shooter at the top of the crease and recovering across it faster than almost anybody in the league.

Fifteen career shutouts in 213 games. He is small for a modern goaltender and compensates entirely with movement; when he is right, nothing gets past the first save. He handles the puck well and is willing to leave the net.

The Mental Game

Rebound control is the part that varies — the aggressive depth means more loose pucks than a deeper goaltender allows, and last season more of them went in.

He tracks through traffic as well as anybody. Two seasons at .9346 and .9162, then .9122, is the shape of a goaltender whose method depends on the legs, and he is 28.

The Intangibles

A fourth-round pick in 2014 out of Moscow, five seasons, 213 games and 135 wins, all of it for one organisation. He has a Vezina Trophy.

He is 28 and won thirty-six games in a season his club got 0.2 goals of value from its crease. Both of those sentences are true and the second one is why this chapter reads the way it does.

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-aggressivea strength· meets the shooter at the top of the crease
“He is 6-1 and 199 and plays an aggressive, athletic game, challenging the shooter at the top of the crease and recovering across it faster than almost anybody in the league.”
plays-deephe lacks it· takes the net away by occupying it
“He is 6-1 and 199 and plays an aggressive, athletic game, challenging the shooter at the top of the crease and recovering across it faster than almost anybody in the league.”
lateral-recoverya strength· post-to-post, and across the slot
“He is small for a modern goaltender and compensates entirely with movement; when he is right, nothing gets past the first save.”
puck-handlinga strength· starts the breakout himself
“He handles the puck well and is willing to leave the net.”
rebound-controlhe lacks it· where the second chance ends up
“Rebound control is the part that varies — the aggressive depth means more loose pucks than a deeper goaltender allows, and last season more of them went in.”
tracks-traffica strength· finds it through a screen
“He tracks through traffic as well as anybody.”