James Reimer

An .8958 across two clubs at 36, and 525 NHL games behind him.

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	ANA/BUF	24	10	10	2	69	3.04	1	662	.896
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	525	225	187	65	1388	2.89	31	15364	.910

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

10-10-2 in 24 games across Anaheim and Buffalo with an .8958, a 3.04 average and 1 shutout, facing 662 shots.

It is among the worst save percentages of his career and it was posted behind two of the weaker defensive clubs in the league. There is no reading of the number that makes it good.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 200 and the style has always been reactive rather than positional. He plays deep, he waits, and he beats shots with his hands rather than by taking away the angle.

At 37 the lateral recovery is the part that has gone; the second chance across the crease is a goal more often than it used to be. The rebound control has never been a strength and it is not one now. He handles the puck adequately and does not start anything with it.

The Mental Game

Fifteen seasons of being the goaltender a club turns to when the plan has not worked, and he has never been visibly rattled by any of it.

He was the number one in Toronto for four seasons, in Florida for two and in San Jose for two, and every one of those clubs eventually decided he was not the answer. He kept getting hired anyway, which is its own kind of evidence.

The Intangibles

A fourth-round pick in 2006 and 525 NHL games across eight organisations with a career .9097.

He is 37 and Ottawa signed him in the summer behind a starter and a 23-year-old. The job is to be available and to make a young club’s development schedule somebody else’s problem.

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
“He plays deep, he waits, and he beats shots with his hands rather than by taking away the angle.”
lateral-recoveryhe lacks it· post-to-post, and across the slot
“At 37 the lateral recovery is the part that has gone; the second chance across the crease is a goal more often than it used to be.”
rebound-controlhe lacks it· where the second chance ends up
“The rebound control has never been a strength and it is not one now.”
puck-handlingpresent and ordinary· starts the breakout himself
“He handles the puck adequately and does not start anything with it.”
leadershipa strength· the room, and who holds it
“Fifteen seasons of being the goaltender a club turns to when the plan has not worked, and he has never been visibly rattled by any of it.”