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Jacob Markstrom
Florida Panthers Goaltender #25
A .883, on a team that gave up the twelfth-fewest chances in the league.
| Season | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 44 | 23 | 19 | 1 | 130 | 3.07 | 1 | 1113 | .883 |
| Career | 578 | 264 | 231 | 64 | 1516 | 2.73 | 25 | 16219 | .906 |
Last Season
Forty-four appearances, 23-19-1, a 3.07 goals-against average and a .8832 save percentage with one shutout. His career figure across 578 games is .9065.
The Physical Game
Six foot six and 207, which is as much net as anyone covers, and for years that was enough on its own. The positional game is sound and the puck-handling is genuinely good.
What has gone is the recovery. He is beaten across the crease now in a way he was not three years ago, and a goaltender who relies on being large and square has nothing left when the play moves him.
The Mental Game
Five hundred and seventy-eight games and a long career of being the best player on some poor teams. He has handled worse than this.
But .883 across 44 appearances is not a slump inside a good season. It is the season.
The Intangibles
Here is the number that defines this club. Florida finished twelfth in the league in even-strength expected goals against and fifth on the penalty kill — a properly built defensive team — and its goaltending came in forty goals worse than the chances it faced. The worst in the National Hockey League.
At five-on-five the club conceded 181 goals against 161.7 expected. Every minus figure on every Panther’s page traces back here.
He is 36 and this was the worst full season of his career, on a roster with two Stanley Cups in it and both Tkachuks on the wing. Nothing about Florida’s ceiling is in doubt except the position he plays.