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Juuse Saros

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Juuse Saros

Nashville Predators Goaltender #74

467 games at a career .9116, and a season at .8935.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2015-16NSH101033.10023.870
2016-17NSH211083472.351614.923
2017-18NSH261157612.453810.925
2018-19NSH3117102742.623870.915
2019-20NSH4017124982.7041142.914
2020-21NSH3621111782.2831073.927
2021-22NSH67382531732.6442107.918
2022-23NSH64332371712.6922099.918
2023-24NSH64352451732.8631845.906
2024-25NSH58203161672.9841592.895
2025-26NSH59282281813.1601700.893
2026-27 so far——————————
Career—4672301724612262.742713875.912

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

59 appearances, 28-22-8, a 3.16 goals-against average and a .8935 save percentage with no shutouts. His career figure across 467 games is .9116 — a gap of 18 thousandths.

The Physical Game

5-11 and 180 pounds, which makes him one of the two or three smallest goaltenders in the league alongside Wolf and Greaves, and for most of a decade it did not matter at all.

He survives on quickness and on tracking pucks through traffic better than almost anyone. The depth management is aggressive — he has to be out at the top of the crease because he cannot take away net standing in it.

What went wrong last season is hard to see in the technique and easy to see in the workload behind him.

The Mental Game

59 appearances behind a club that finished 26th in even-strength expected goals against, on a roster built to contend that did not. He stopped .892 over his last 10, which is neither a collapse nor a recovery.

The Intangibles

Nashville’s goaltending came in 8 goals worse than the chances it faced. That is a modest figure and it hides the shape of it: Saros at .8935 across 59 games, and Annunen at .9058 across 28 with .938 over his last 10.

The backup finished the season considerably hotter than the starter.

He is 31 with a career .9116 that 467 games says is real. One poor year behind a collapsing defence is not the end of that. 2 would be.

The numbers underneath

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

.890

save percentage over his last 8, on 254 shots · .888 across these 20

Each bar is one appearance, taller being a better save percentage. Filled bars are .920 or better.