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Jacob Markstrom
Calgary Flames Goaltender
A .922 and a Vezina nomination one season, an .892 the next, on a club that was second in shot attempts.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-11 | FLA | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3.01 | 0 | 14 | .857 |
| 2011-12 | FLA | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 2.66 | 0 | 222 | .923 |
| 2012-13 | FLA | 23 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 68 | 3.22 | 0 | 685 | .901 |
| 2013-14 | FLA/VAN | 16 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 46 | 3.39 | 0 | 361 | .873 |
| 2014-15 | VAN | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3.09 | 0 | 33 | .879 |
| 2015-16 | VAN | 33 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 84 | 2.73 | 0 | 988 | .915 |
| 2016-17 | VAN | 26 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 62 | 2.63 | 0 | 692 | .910 |
| 2017-18 | VAN | 60 | 23 | 26 | 7 | 154 | 2.71 | 2 | 1745 | .912 |
| 2018-19 | VAN | 60 | 28 | 23 | 9 | 166 | 2.77 | 1 | 1896 | .912 |
| 2019-20 | VAN | 43 | 23 | 16 | 4 | 117 | 2.75 | 2 | 1420 | .918 |
| 2020-21 | CGY | 43 | 22 | 19 | 2 | 111 | 2.68 | 3 | 1161 | .904 |
| 2021-22 | CGY | 63 | 37 | 15 | 9 | 137 | 2.22 | 9 | 1754 | .922 |
| 2022-23 | CGY | 59 | 23 | 21 | 12 | 166 | 2.92 | 1 | 1542 | .892 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 437 | 192 | 173 | 55 | 1134 | 2.72 | 18 | 12513 | .909 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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
59 games, 23-21-12, an .8923 save percentage and a 2.92 goals-against average, with 1 shutout on 1,542 shots faced.
Two seasons ago he posted a .922 with nine shutouts and finished second in Vezina voting. This is a thirty-point collapse.
Calgary’s goaltending was measured at 17.5 goals worse than expected, 26th in the league — on a club that was second in shot-attempt share and fourth in expected goals against per sixty. That is the entire season. A club with those chances and league-average goaltending makes the playoffs comfortably.
His career figure across 437 games is .909.
The Physical Game
6-6 and 207, and he is a big goaltender who plays a deep, positional game — he covers the bottom of the net by size and stays back rather than challenging.
The puck-handling is good and Calgary uses it. The rebound control is where the season went wrong: pucks came off him into the slot far more often than in his good years, and behind a defence that suppresses chances as well as this one does, second chances are most of what gets scored.
The Mental Game
A .922 and an .892 in consecutive seasons at 32 and 33 is not a technique question, it is a stability question, and there is no version of the two numbers that describes the same goaltender.
His career has been like this before — very good seasons in Vancouver either side of poor ones — and the honest reading is a goaltender whose level moves a great deal from year to year. On a club whose margin is entirely goaltending, that variance is the largest single risk in the roster.
The Intangibles
Thirty-first overall in 2008 to Florida, thirteen seasons and 437 games, and he was thirty before anybody thought of him as a starter.
He is 33, with three years left on his contract. Calgary has an elite defensive structure, an elite shot-attempt share, and a goaltender who gave back more than the structure produced — and the club cannot fix the roster problem until it knows which Markstrom it has.
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.
“he covers the bottom of the net by size and stays back rather than challenging”
“The puck-handling is good and Calgary uses it.”
“pucks came off him into the slot far more often than in his good years”