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2025-26 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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Jet Greaves

Columbus Blue Jackets Goaltender

A .9381 in 11 games, which is the most interesting small sample in this edition.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2022-23CBJ101033.05049.939
2023-24CBJ9360303.490327.908
2024-25CBJ11722211.912339.938
2025-26 so far——————————
Career—211092542.622715.924

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

7-2-2 in 11 games, .9381 with a 1.91 average and 2 shutouts on 339 shots.

Eleven games is eleven games and the number should be discounted accordingly. It is also 46 points of save percentage clear of the man who played 53, on the same team, in the same season.

The Physical Game

6 feet and 188, and small for the modern position, and the game compensates with anticipation and quickness rather than coverage. He reads a play early, gets to his spot before the puck arrives, and is unusually calm for a goaltender who has to move as much as he does.

The rebound control is good, which is the specific thing his partner lacks and the specific thing a club conceding this many interior chances needs.

The Mental Game

Undrafted, five American League seasons, and a first NHL run in which he beat good teams without any visible sign of the moment being large.

That is the entire case and it is a small one. There is no record of him under a full season’s load.

The Intangibles

At 24, undrafted, and the only goaltender in the organisation who has stopped pucks at an NHL rate.

A club that was 22nd in goaltending while finishing 2nd in finishing has an obvious and cheap experiment available to it. 339 shots is not enough to know anything; it is more than enough to justify finding out.

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.

  • rebound-controla strength· where the second chance ends up

    “The rebound control is good, which is the specific thing his partner lacks and the specific thing a club conceding this many interior chances needs.”

  • undrafteda strength· arrived without a pick attached

    “Undrafted, five American League seasons, and a first NHL run in which he beat good teams without any visible sign of the moment being large.”