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Joonas Korpisalo

An .8932 in 27 games, and a backup whose numbers are indistinguishable from the starter's.

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	BOS	27	11	10	3	74	2.90	3	693	.893
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	303	126	117	32	853	3.05	7	8574	.900

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

11-10-3 in 27 games, .8932 with a 2.90 average and 3 shutouts on 693 shots.

A lower goals-against average than the starter and a save percentage within a point of him, in half the games. On a club this poor that is neither an endorsement nor a criticism; it is two goaltenders having the same season.

The Physical Game

6-4 and 200, and he plays a large, positional game — deep, square, and reliant on size rather than quickness.

The lateral movement is the weakness and it always has been. A puck moved across the slot beats him more often than it should, and the rebound control is the worst of the two goaltenders here. Behind a club that concedes as many second chances as this one that is the wrong pair of flaws.

The Mental Game

Eleven seasons, five organisations, and a career of alternating between a good half-season and a bad one. He has been a starter, lost the job, been traded, been bought out of the situation, and kept working.

There is no evidence of a goaltender who unravels, and none of one who strings together three good months.

The Intangibles

At 31, doing the job he is suited to: 25 starts, no expectations, and a modest cost.

The useful thing about him on this roster is that he can play 30 games without the club being obviously worse, which is what a rebuilding team needs from a backup while it finds out what its starter is.

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 plays a large, positional game — deep, square, and reliant on size rather than quickness”
lateral-recoveryhe lacks it· post-to-post, and across the slot
“The lateral movement is the weakness and it always has been. A puck moved across the slot beats him more often than it should”
rebound-controlhe lacks it· where the second chance ends up
“the rebound control is the worst of the two goaltenders here”