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2024-25 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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Jonas Johansson

Tampa Bay Lightning Goaltender

Six-five, and tied for the third-lowest save percentage of any goaltender who played twenty-five games.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2019-20BUF6131162.940151.894
2020-21BUF/COL15562392.861380.897
2021-22COL/FLA11341384.690264.856
2022-23COL320052.10073.931
2023-24TBL261275833.372752.890
2024-25 so far——————————
Career—61232091813.3431620.888

This Season So Far

The 2024-25 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

26 games, 12-7-5 with an .8896 and a 3.37, 2 shutouts, facing 752 shots.

The .8896 was tied for the third-lowest save percentage of any goaltender who played twenty-five games last season. Two shutouts and an .8896 in the same 26 games is the shape of him: the good nights are very good and the ordinary ones are not ordinary.

The Physical Game

He is 6-5 and 220.

He is one of the tallest goaltenders in this edition and covers a great deal of net simply by standing up, but the movement is heavy and the recovery low is slow, which is where the save percentage goes. Everything depends on the first shot being the only one.

The Mental Game

A career .8883 across 61 games and 3 shutouts.

Sixty-one games across five seasons and four organisations, and the save percentage has not moved: .8883 in total and .8896 last season. He is 28 and has never been anybody’s first choice for long.

The Intangibles

Sixty-first overall in 2014 by Buffalo, five seasons, and Tampa Bay is his fourth organisation.

Twenty-three career wins against 20 losses. He won 12 of 26 behind a club that finished sixth in the East, which is the honest measure of the difference between a backup and a starter.

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
  • he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

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 one of the tallest goaltenders in this edition and covers a great deal of net simply by standing up, but the movement is heavy and the recovery low is slow, which is where the save percentage goes.”

  • lateral-recoveryhe lacks it· post-to-post, and across the slot

    “Everything depends on the first shot being the only one.”