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Jonas Johansson

Colorado Avalanche Goaltender

A career .8830 across 32 games, and six-five in a crease with two smaller men ahead of him.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2019-20BUF6131162.940151.894
2020-21BUF/COL15562392.861380.897
2021-22COL/FLA11341384.690264.856
2022-23 so far——————————
Career—329134933.421795.883

This Season So Far

The 2022-23 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

11 games, 3-4-1, a .8561 save percentage and a 4.69 goals-against average for Colorado and Florida, with no shutouts on 264 shots faced.

A .8561 across 11 games is the worst season line in this chapter, and 264 shots is far too few to mean much in either direction.

Thirty-two NHL games across three seasons, and a career .8830.

The Physical Game

6-5 and 220, which is as large as the two goaltenders ahead of him are small, and the method is the one the size suggests: he blocks, stays big, and covers the net by occupying it rather than by moving to it.

That style is the most forgiving one to learn and the least forgiving one when the reads are late, and 795 career shots at .8830 is what a goaltender still learning it looks like.

The Mental Game

Three seasons, three clubs, and 32 games. Nothing in 795 shots separates a goaltender from the teams he played for, and both of the teams he has played for at any length were not helping.

The Intangibles

Sixty-first overall in 2014 by Buffalo, third round, and 32 NHL games at 26.

He is the third goaltender on a Stanley Cup roster, behind a new starter with 129 NHL games and a backup with 57. That is a thin crease for a defending champion, and the third man’s job is to be in Colorado Springs and available in December.