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

Jacob Markstrom

Four hundred and eighty-five games, a career .9089, and one 34-year-old bought to replace five goaltenders.

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	CGY	48	23	23	2	131	2.78	2	1379	.905
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	485	215	196	57	1265	2.73	20	13892	.909

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

48 games in Calgary, 23-23-2, a .9050 save percentage and a 2.78 goals-against average with 2 shutouts on 1,379 shots faced.

The season before he went .8923 in 59 games, so the .9050 is a recovery rather than a peak. Against a career .9089 across 485 games it is roughly what he is: a little above average, most years, for a very long time.

The Physical Game

He is 6-6 and 207 and plays a deep, positional game, taking away the net by standing in it rather than by moving.

Twenty career shutouts in 485 games. At that size the depth is the correct choice and the cost is everything that moves laterally; he is not quick across and never has been. The glove is good and the puck-handling is adequate.

The Mental Game

Rebound control is the part that has held up as the legs have gone — he swallows the first shot far more often than a goaltender his age has any right to.

He tracks through traffic well and he does not get rattled by a bad goal, which after fourteen seasons in the position is the more impressive half of it.

The Intangibles

A second-round pick in 2008 by Florida, out of Gavle, fourteen seasons across three organisations, and 215 wins in 485 games at a career .9089.

He is 34 and New Jersey has bought him to replace five goaltenders and sixteen goals. If he gives them his career average this club gains most of those sixteen back, and there is no plan behind him if he does not.

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
“He is 6-6 and 207 and plays a deep, positional game, taking away the net by standing in it rather than by moving.”
plays-aggressivehe lacks it· meets the shooter at the top of the crease
“He is 6-6 and 207 and plays a deep, positional game, taking away the net by standing in it rather than by moving.”
lateral-recoveryhe lacks it· post-to-post, and across the slot
“At that size the depth is the correct choice and the cost is everything that moves laterally; he is not quick across and never has been.”
puck-handlinga strength· starts the breakout himself
“The glove is good and the puck-handling is adequate.”
rebound-controla strength· where the second chance ends up
“Rebound control is the part that has held up as the legs have gone — he swallows the first shot far more often than a goaltender his age has any right to.”
tracks-traffica strength· finds it through a screen
“He tracks through traffic well and he does not get rattled by a bad goal, which after fourteen seasons in the position is the more impressive half of it.”