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James Reimer

Five hundred and one games, a career .9103, and a third goaltender's job at thirty-six.

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

2010-11	TOR	37	20	10	5	90	2.60	3	1134	.921
2011-12	TOR	34	14	14	4	97	3.10	3	974	.900
2012-13	TOR	33	19	8	5	76	2.46	4	995	.924
2013-14	TOR	36	12	16	1	98	3.29	1	1095	.910
2014-15	TOR	35	9	16	1	93	3.16	0	1001	.907
2015-16	TOR/SJS	40	17	14	7	88	2.31	3	1128	.922
2016-17	FLA	43	18	16	5	98	2.53	3	1222	.920
2017-18	FLA	44	22	14	6	120	2.99	4	1373	.913
2018-19	FLA	36	13	12	5	93	3.09	0	929	.900
2019-20	CAR	25	14	6	2	61	2.66	3	712	.914
2020-21	CAR	22	15	5	2	59	2.66	0	627	.906
2021-22	SJS	48	19	17	10	129	2.90	1	1450	.911
2022-23	SJS	43	12	21	8	147	3.48	3	1335	.890
2023-24	DET	25	11	8	2	70	3.11	2	727	.904
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	501	215	177	63	1319	2.88	30	14702	.910

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

11-8-2 with a .9037, a 3.11 average and 2 shutouts in 25 games for Detroit, facing 727 shots.

Two shutouts in twenty-five games at 35, in a season split with two other goaltenders, is a perfectly respectable year and it is the fourth club he has done it for.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 200. He plays deep and relies on position rather than on athleticism, which is what a goaltender of this vintage has left and is why he is still employed at 36.

The rebound control is the weakness and has been for a decade — a career .9103 with the second chance too often going back into the slot. The puck-handling is poor and he does not leave the crease.

The Mental Game

Fourteen seasons and 501 games across five organisations, most of them as somebody’s second goaltender, and the save percentage has never collapsed in any of them. A career .9103 built almost entirely in relief is a harder achievement than a career .9103 built as a starter.

He has played twenty or more games in eleven different seasons and has never been given a crease outright.

The Intangibles

Ninety-ninth overall in 2006 by Toronto, and 501 games, 215 wins, 30 shutouts and a career 2.88.

He is 36 and he was signed in the summer to a club that already had two goaltenders. He is the professional third man, and the value of that on a roster with a 24-year-old taking the job and a 31-year-old losing it is real and is not measured in games played.

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 plays deep and relies on position rather than on athleticism**, which is what a goaltender of this vintage has left and is why he is still employed at 36.”
rebound-controlhe lacks it· where the second chance ends up
“**The rebound control is the weakness and has been for a decade** — a career .9103 with the second chance too often going back into the slot.”
puck-handlinghe lacks it· starts the breakout himself
“**The puck-handling is poor** and he does not leave the crease.”
leadershipa strength· the room, and who holds it
“**He is the professional third man**, and the value of that on a roster with a 24-year-old taking the job and a 31-year-old losing it is real and is not measured in games played.”