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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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Justus Annunen

Colorado Avalanche Goaltender

A .9275 with two shutouts in fourteen games, three hundred and nine points of save percentage clear of the man ahead of him.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2021-22COL210174.34051.863
2022-23COL211073.58048.854
2023-24COL14841302.252414.927
2024-25 so far——————————
Career—181052442.602513.914

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

Fourteen games, 8-4-1, a .9275 save percentage, a 2.25 average and 2 shutouts on 414 shots.

Two shutouts in fourteen games matches Alexandar Georgiev’s total in sixty-three. It is a small sample and it is the best goaltending Colorado received all season by a margin nobody can argue with.

The Physical Game

He is 6-4 and 210 and takes away the top of the net by standing up rather than by reaching. Against a clean shot from distance there is very little to shoot at, and he does not have to move to make the save.

The rebound control is better than the man ahead of him and the puck is steered to the corner rather than returned to the slot. The lateral movement is the question — at that size the second play across the crease is slower, and a good passing club will find it.

The Mental Game

Eighteen career games across three seasons, most of them spent waiting. A .9275 in his first real run is the answer to the only question a third-round pick gets asked.

He is 24 and has never been given ten consecutive starts. On a club with a 24th-ranked crease, that is a decision worth revisiting.

The Intangibles

A third-round pick, 64th overall in 2018, out of Kempele, with six seasons in the organisation and a career .9142 across 18 games.

Colorado spent the summer signing a third goaltender instead of handing him the net. The numbers say he should have had it.

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.

  • tracks-traffica strength· finds it through a screen

    “He is 6-4 and 210 and takes away the top of the net by standing up rather than by reaching.”

  • rebound-controla strength· where the second chance ends up

    “The rebound control is better than the man ahead of him and the puck is steered to the corner rather than returned to the slot.”

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

    “The lateral movement is the question — at that size the second play across the crease is slower, and a good passing club will find it.”