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

Jake Allen

Four hundred and twenty-nine games, a career .9075, and an .8951 across two cities at 33.

Season	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	GA	GAA	SO	SA	SV%

2012-13	STL	15	9	4	0	33	2.46	1	346	.905
2014-15	STL	37	22	7	4	79	2.28	4	909	.913
2015-16	STL	47	26	15	3	101	2.35	6	1260	.920
2016-17	STL	61	33	20	5	138	2.42	4	1620	.915
2017-18	STL	59	27	25	3	152	2.75	1	1614	.906
2018-19	STL	46	19	17	8	121	2.83	3	1277	.905
2019-20	STL	24	12	6	3	48	2.15	2	655	.927
2020-21	MTL	29	11	12	5	76	2.68	0	817	.907
2021-22	MTL	35	9	20	4	107	3.30	2	1123	.905
2022-23	MTL	42	15	24	3	145	3.55	1	1335	.891
2023-24	MTL/NJD	34	12	18	4	114	3.44	0	1087	.895
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	429	195	168	42	1114	2.76	24	12043	.907

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

34 games in Montreal and New Jersey, 12-18-4, an .8951 save percentage and a 3.44 goals-against average on 1,087 shots faced.

Against a career .9075 across 429 games that is a bad season, and it happened in front of the twenty-ninth-worst chance suppression in hockey and then the twenty-first. He arrived in New Jersey at the deadline and took 13 of the games.

The Physical Game

He is 6-2 and 197 and challenges high in his crease, coming out to meet the shooter rather than waiting.

Twenty-four career shutouts in 429 games. He is quick and the glove is the better hand. The aggressive depth has always cost him on the second play, and at 34 the recovery is a step slower than the style requires.

The Mental Game

Rebound control has been the weakness of his whole career; he stops a great many first shots and leaves too many of them where somebody can reach.

He handles the puck well and is willing to leave the net to do it. Eleven seasons of being somebody’s 1B has produced 195 wins and no expectation of ever being anything else.

The Intangibles

A second-round pick in 2008 by St. Louis, out of Fredericton, eleven seasons across three organisations, and 195 wins in 429 games at a career .9075.

He is 34 and is now the second half of a tandem with another 34-year-old. If Jacob Markstrom plays sixty games this is a fair backup; if he does not, the crease that lost sixteen goals last season has not really changed.

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-aggressivea strength· meets the shooter at the top of the crease
“He is 6-2 and 197 and challenges high in his crease, coming out to meet the shooter rather than waiting.”
plays-deephe lacks it· takes the net away by occupying it
“He is 6-2 and 197 and challenges high in his crease, coming out to meet the shooter rather than waiting.”
lateral-recoveryhe lacks it· post-to-post, and across the slot
“The aggressive depth has always cost him on the second play, and at 34 the recovery is a step slower than the style requires.”
rebound-controlhe lacks it· where the second chance ends up
“Rebound control has been the weakness of his whole career; he stops a great many first shots and leaves too many of them where somebody can reach.”
puck-handlinga strength· starts the breakout himself
“He handles the puck well and is willing to leave the net to do it.”