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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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35

Joey Daccord

Seattle Kraken Goaltender

A .9056 across 57 games and 1,599 shots, on a club that was 29th in the league at chance share.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2018-19OTT101055.00040.875
2020-21OTT8131223.270214.897
2021-22SEA5040214.300140.850
2022-23SEA5211133.140130.900
2023-24SEA501918111162.4631374.916
2024-25SEA57272351512.7521599.906
2025-26 so far——————————
Career—1264950183282.7653497.906

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

27-23-5 in 57 games with a .9056, a 2.75 average and 2 shutouts, facing 1,599 shots — among the heaviest workloads in the league.

The club’s goaltending at five-on-five came in 11.1 goals worse than the chances faced, 23rd in the league, and almost all of the damage was done by the other man on the depth chart. A .9056 behind a club that was 29th in five-on-five chance share is a good season.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 201 and the technique is the best thing about him — he is square almost without exception, the depth management is disciplined, and he does not travel further out than the shot requires.

The rebound control is good and it is the reason a heavy workload has not turned into a disaster. The glove is solid rather than exceptional and the lateral recovery is fine. He handles the puck as well as any goaltender in this edition and starts breakouts himself, which on a blue line with Oleksiak and Larsson on it is worth real goals.

The Mental Game

He was a seventh-round pick who spent four seasons in the American League and one in the ECHL, and he did not have an NHL job until he was 26.

Fifty-seven starts on a club that was outshot most nights and a .9056 across it. He has not visibly wavered in two seasons of doing that.

The Intangibles

199th overall in 2015, and 126 NHL games in with a career .9062.

He is 29. The club has him signed long and he is the least of its problems, which is not a sentence anybody expected to write about a seventh-round goaltender.

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

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 is square almost without exception, the depth management is disciplined, and he does not travel further out than the shot requires.”

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

    “**The rebound control is good** and it is the reason a heavy workload has not turned into a disaster.”

  • puck-handlinga strength· starts the breakout himself

    “**He handles the puck as well as any goaltender in this edition** and starts breakouts himself, which on a blue line with Oleksiak and Larsson on it is worth real goals.”

  • lateral-recoverypresent and ordinary· post-to-post, and across the slot

    “The glove is solid rather than exceptional and the lateral recovery is fine.”