This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Joonas Korpisalo
Boston Bruins Goaltender
An .8896 in fifty-five games, and he is what Boston received for a Vezina winner.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | CBJ | 31 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 78 | 2.60 | 0 | 969 | .919 |
| 2016-17 | CBJ | 14 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 38 | 2.88 | 1 | 401 | .905 |
| 2017-18 | CBJ | 18 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 58 | 3.32 | 0 | 564 | .897 |
| 2018-19 | CBJ | 27 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 67 | 2.95 | 0 | 651 | .897 |
| 2019-20 | CBJ | 37 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 92 | 2.60 | 2 | 1030 | .911 |
| 2020-21 | CBJ | 33 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 96 | 3.30 | 0 | 904 | .894 |
| 2021-22 | CBJ | 22 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 78 | 4.15 | 0 | 634 | .877 |
| 2022-23 | CBJ/LAK | 39 | 18 | 14 | 4 | 104 | 2.87 | 1 | 1206 | .914 |
| 2023-24 | OTT | 55 | 21 | 26 | 4 | 168 | 3.27 | 0 | 1522 | .890 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 276 | 115 | 107 | 29 | 779 | 3.06 | 4 | 7881 | .901 |
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
21-26-4 with an .8896, a 3.27 average and no shutouts in 55 games for Ottawa, facing 1,522 shots.
It is 116 points of save percentage below what this club got from its crease last season, and he arrived in the trade that sent the other half of that crease away.
The Physical Game
6-4 and 200. He plays deep and relies on the frame, and at his best that was enough — a big goaltender who is square and still takes a great deal of net away without moving.
The rebound control is the weakness and it has been throughout. A career .9012 across 276 games and 7,881 shots says the second chance goes back into the slot too often, and an .8896 behind an average defence is that failing at its worst.
The puck-handling is decent and he will leave the crease to retrieve.
The Mental Game
Nine seasons, 276 games and 115 wins, and a career that peaked in a Los Angeles playoff series and has fallen away steadily since.
An .8896 over fifty-five games is not a slump; it is most of a season, and the two years before it were .9014 and .9059. The direction is one way.
The Intangibles
Sixty-second overall in 2012 by Columbus, and 276 NHL games for four clubs at 30.
He was acquired with a draft pick in exchange for Linus Ullmark. A club whose entire margin was 27.2 goals of goaltending replaced half of it with a career .9012 in decline, and if Jeremy Swayman is injured this is the season.