This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Jacob Markstrom
New Jersey Devils Goaltender
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.