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Jacob Markstrom

A .9003 across 49 games at 35, and a goaltender the club paid a first-round pick for.

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	NJD	49	26	16	6	121	2.50	4	1214	.900
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	534	241	212	63	1386	2.71	24	15106	.908

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

26-16-6 in 49 games, .9003 with a 2.50 average and 4 shutouts on 1,214 shots.

New Jersey’s goaltending came in 8.4 goals better than the chances faced, 13th in the league, behind a defence that was 12th at suppressing them. A .9003 in that context is a modest season, and the 2.50 average is the more flattering number.

The Physical Game

6-6 and 207, and he plays large and positional. He takes away the top of the net, is square more often than not, and tracks well through traffic.

The lateral recovery is where 35 shows. A puck moved across the slot finds him late and the second save in a sequence is slower than it was, and the rebound control is adequate rather than good. A knee injury cost him time in January.

The Mental Game

Fifteen seasons, four organisations, a Vezina finish in Calgary, and a career of one excellent year followed by two ordinary ones.

He does not carry a bad goal into a period. There is no record of a collapse and no stretch of sustained excellence in three years either.

The Intangibles

Acquired for a first-round pick and a prospect at 34, to be the goaltender who takes this club past a first round.

At 35 the projection is 45 games and a .903. That is not what a first-round pick buys, and the club has Jake Allen at 35 behind him stopping .906 — two goaltenders the same age with the same numbers is not a plan.

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
ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
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
“6-6 and 207, and he plays large and positional.”
tracks-traffica strength· finds it through a screen
“He takes away the top of the net, is square more often than not, and tracks well through traffic.”
lateral-recoveryhe lacks it· post-to-post, and across the slot
“The lateral recovery is where 35 shows. A puck moved across the slot finds him late and the second save in a sequence is slower than it was, and the rebound control is adequate rather than good.”
rebound-controlpresent and ordinary· where the second chance ends up
“the rebound control is adequate rather than good”