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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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33

Jaxson Stauber

Utah Mammoth Goaltender

Undrafted, 12 career games, and a shutout in 6 of them.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2022-23CHI6510172.810191.911
2024-25UTA6211173.261158.892
2026-27 so far——————————
Career—12721343.011349.903

No games in 2025-26. The season above is the last one he played, and everything on this page should be read with that gap in it.

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

6 appearances, 2-1-1, a 3.26 goals-against average and a .8924 save percentage with 1 shutout. His career figure across 12 games is .9026.

The Physical Game

6-3 and 174 pounds, which is very light for the position, and it shows when a play arrives through traffic — he is moved off his post and does not hold ground in the blue paint.

The technique is orthodox and the athleticism is fair. Nothing about the profile suggests a starter.

The Mental Game

12 NHL games spread across 2 seasons, and a shutout in his first ever start for Chicago — which is the sort of thing that gets a goaltender 4 more years of contracts.

The Intangibles

6 appearances is not a sample and this page will not pretend otherwise.

What matters is the shape of the crease around him. Vejmelka played 64 of Utah’s games, one of the heaviest loads in the league, and finished at .8961 with his last 10 at .879.

A club leaning that hard on 1 goaltender needs a genuine second option, and 12 career games at .9026 is not yet evidence of one.

He is 27, undrafted out of Providence, and the third goaltender on most nights.