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Joonas Korpisalo

Columbus Blue Jackets Goaltender

A .877 in 22 games — 25 points below his own career figure, and the worst of seven seasons.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2015-16CBJ3116114782.600969.919
2016-17CBJ14751382.881401.905
2017-18CBJ18881583.320564.897
2018-19CBJ271073672.950651.897
2019-20CBJ3719125922.6021030.911
2020-21CBJ339137963.300904.894
2021-22CBJ227110784.150634.877
2022-23 so far——————————
Career—1827667215073.0435153.902

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

22 games, 7-11-0, a .877 save percentage and a 4.15 goals-against average, with no shutouts on 634 shots faced.

A .877 is 25 points below his own career figure of .9016 across 182 games, and it is the worst of the seven seasons he has played.

Columbus goaltending came in 18.7 goals below the chances it faced, 26th in the league, and 634 of the shots the club faced were his.

The Physical Game

6-4 and 200, an upright, positional goaltender who covers the net by being in front of it rather than by moving to it. That method survives a poor defence badly: when the puck moves laterally before the shot, the reach has to do work the feet have not done.

Seven seasons and 182 games, a career .9016 — a .9195 as a rookie and nothing above .9107 since.

The Mental Game

He has been the Columbus goaltender-in-waiting since 2015 and has never taken the job. Seven years of that is its own kind of season, and this was the year the record stopped arguing for him: twenty-two games at .877 is the sort of line a career does not usually come back from.

Twenty-two games is also too few to judge a goaltender on, which is the honest counterweight and not much of one.

The Intangibles

Sixty-second overall in 2012, and 182 games for one club.

He is 28, behind a goaltender the club has committed to, on a roster whose defensive record is the worst in the league. The realistic reading of his season is that he is playing for a job somewhere else.