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Jet Greaves

Columbus Blue Jackets Goaltender

Undrafted, six feet tall, and a career .9122 in ten games.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2022-23CBJ101033.05049.939
2023-24CBJ9360303.490327.908
2024-25 so far——————————
Career—10370333.440376.912

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

3-6-0 with a .9083, a 3.49 average and no shutouts in 9 games at 22, facing 327 shots.

Nine games is nine games. It leaves him at a career .9122 across 10 games, which is the best rate of any goaltender on this roster and means very little.

The Physical Game

6-0 and 188, and he is small for the modern position. He plays aggressively, meeting the shooter at the top of the crease, because at that size there is no alternative — a goaltender who sits deep at six feet is simply a smaller target.

The technique is exact and the glove is quick. The rebound control is the thing that will decide whether he holds a job, and there is not enough evidence yet to say which way.

The Mental Game

Ten NHL games at 22, on a club that finished twenty-ninth, after three seasons in the American league.

Nothing here is a verdict on anything.

The Intangibles

Undrafted, out of Barrie in the junior league, and 10 NHL games at 23.

An undrafted six-foot goaltender reaching the NHL at all is a long shot twice over, and on a club with two goaltenders in front of him who have both been exactly average, there is a genuine opening.

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

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.

  • undrafteda strength· arrived without a pick attached

    “**Undrafted**, out of Barrie in the junior league, and 10 NHL games at 23.”

  • plays-aggressivea strength· meets the shooter at the top of the crease

    “**He plays aggressively, meeting the shooter at the top of the crease**, because at that size there is no alternative — a goaltender who sits deep at six feet is simply a smaller target.”