Jonas Johansson

Last Season

Twenty-five appearances, 11-10-2, a 3.29 goals-against average and a .8836 save percentage, no shutouts. His career figure across 105 games is .8885.

Over his last ten appearances, .867 on 293 shots.

The Physical Game

Six foot five, 220, and he covers a lot of net without moving especially well. He is beaten laterally and the rebound control is the weakest part of the game.

At his size the technique should carry him further than it does.

The Mental Game

Eleven wins in twenty-five appearances behind a club that gave up the second-fewest expected goals in the league is not a flattering line.

The Intangibles

Here is the number that matters. Tampa’s goaltending finished level with the chances it faced — no better, no worse — on a team that allowed only 151.4 expected goals against, second only to Ottawa.

Vasilevskiy stopped .9110 in fifty-eight appearances. Johansson stopped .8836 in twenty-five, and Hildeby, the man arriving to replace him, stopped .9124 in twenty behind a far worse defence.

He is 30, a third-round pick, and on the evidence of those three lines he is the third goaltender on this roster.