Joey Daccord

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

47 appearances, 20-20-6, a 3.03 goals-against average and a .8959 save percentage with 2 shutouts. His career figure across 173 games is .9034.

Over his last 10 appearances, .865 on 259 shots.

The Physical Game

6-2, 201, and a calm, technically tidy goaltender who plays a controlled depth game rather than an athletic one. He is square more often than not and does not scramble.

The puckhandling is genuinely good — among the better stickhandling goaltenders in the league, and on a club that is pinned in its own zone as often as this one, that matters more than usual.

The Mental Game

He came from nowhere: a seventh-round pick, a long minor-league apprenticeship, and a father who coached goalies for a living. He did not play 50 NHL games until he was 28.

20 wins and 20 losses on a team that was outshot all season is not an indictment.

The Intangibles

Seattle conceded 160 goals at 5-on-5 against an expected 176.6 — its goaltending came in 16 and a half goals better than the chances it faced, fifth-best in the league. That is the single reason this club was respectable.

But the split inside the crease is uncomfortable. Grubauer, 34 years old and long since written off in this city, stopped .9088 in his 32 games. Daccord stopped .8959 in his 47.

He is 30, he is the starter, and the finish — .865 across 10 appearances — is the worst run of his career at exactly the wrong moment.