Juuse Saros
Nashville Predators Goaltender #74
Four hundred and sixty-seven games at a career .9116, and a season at .8935.
| Season | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 59 | 28 | 22 | 8 | 181 | 3.16 | 0 | 1700 | .893 |
| Career | 467 | 230 | 172 | 46 | 1226 | 2.74 | 27 | 13875 | .912 |
Last Season
Fifty-nine 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 eighteen thousandths.
The Physical Game
Five foot eleven 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
Fifty-nine appearances behind a club that finished 27th in even-strength expected goals against, on a roster built to contend that did not. He stopped .892 over his last ten, which is neither a collapse nor a recovery.
The Intangibles
Nashville’s goaltending came in eight 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 ten.
The backup finished the season considerably hotter than the starter.
He is 31 with a career .9116 that four hundred and sixty-seven games says is real. One poor year behind a collapsing defence is not the end of that. Two would be.