Ivan Fedotov
Philadelphia Flyers Goaltender
Six-foot-seven, the tallest goaltender in this edition, with three NHL games behind him.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | PHI | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4.95 | 0 | 53 | .811 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4.95 | 0 | 53 | .811 |
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
3 games, 0-1-1, an .8113 and a 4.95, 53 shots faced.
Fifty-three shots is the whole of his NHL career and nothing can be read from them. Philadelphia’s crease came in 29.3 goals worse than the chances it faced, thirty-first in the league, and he was on the ice for three games of it.
The Physical Game
He is 6-7 and 209 — the tallest goaltender in this edition — and takes away the top of the net without moving.
At that height there is very little clean space above the pads when he is set, and shooters have to beat him low or off a rebound. He plays deep and square and lets the puck come to him rather than challenging out; a goaltender that tall who plays deep is covering the posts with his shoulders.
The Mental Game
An .8113 across 53 shots at 27, in a first NHL season that lasted three games.
The recovery across a crease that large is the whole question and three games do not answer it. Very tall goaltenders are slow to get from post to post and quick to be beaten on the second shot, and nothing in the record here says which way this one goes.
The Intangibles
188th overall in 2015, one season, 3 games at 27.
A seventh-round pick from nine years before who reached the NHL at 27 and played three games. He is the backup on a club whose starter has 63 games of NHL experience, which is 66 games of goaltending between the two of them.