This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →

Juuse Saros

Five foot eleven, sixty-four games, and a career .9170 across 350 of them.

Season	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	GA	GAA	SO	SA	SV%

2015-16	NSH	1	0	1	0	3	3.10	0	23	.870
2016-17	NSH	21	10	8	3	47	2.35	1	614	.923
2017-18	NSH	26	11	5	7	61	2.45	3	810	.925
2018-19	NSH	31	17	10	2	74	2.62	3	870	.915
2019-20	NSH	40	17	12	4	98	2.70	4	1142	.914
2020-21	NSH	36	21	11	1	78	2.28	3	1073	.927
2021-22	NSH	67	38	25	3	173	2.64	4	2107	.918
2022-23	NSH	64	33	23	7	171	2.69	2	2099	.918
2023-24	NSH	64	35	24	5	173	2.86	3	1845	.906
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	350	182	119	32	878	2.63	23	10583	.917

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

64 games, 35-24-5, a .9062 save percentage and a 2.86 goals-against average with 3 shutouts on 1,845 shots faced.

That is the lowest figure of any season in which he has played twenty games, against a career .9170 across 350. The club’s goaltending still came in 6.4 goals better than the chances it faced, 11th in the league, and almost all of it was him.

The Physical Game

He is 5-11 and 180 pounds and plays a deep, compact game, taking away the bottom of the net and relying on being square rather than on covering ground.

Twenty-three career shutouts in 350 games. At that size there is no blocking a shot he has not seen, so everything depends on the tracking, and the tracking is the best part of him. He is quick across the crease and he has to be.

The Mental Game

Rebound control is genuinely good — he swallows the first shot far more often than a goaltender this small should be able to.

He handles the puck sparingly and the club does not ask for more. Sixty-four games at 5-11 is a very heavy load and he has now carried sixty or more for three seasons in a row.

The Intangibles

A fourth-round pick in 2013 out of Forssa, nine seasons, 350 games and 182 wins, all of it for one organisation.

He is 29 and the club has just traded away Yaroslav Askarov, whom it drafted eleventh overall, and kept the ninety-ninth pick. That decision is the whole of Nashville’s next four years.

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 is 5-11 and 180 pounds and plays a deep, compact game, taking away the bottom of the net and relying on being square rather than on covering ground.”
plays-aggressivehe lacks it· meets the shooter at the top of the crease
“He is 5-11 and 180 pounds and plays a deep, compact game, taking away the bottom of the net and relying on being square rather than on covering ground.”
tracks-traffica strength· finds it through a screen
“At that size there is no blocking a shot he has not seen, so everything depends on the tracking, and the tracking is the best part of him.”
lateral-recoverya strength· post-to-post, and across the slot
“He is quick across the crease and he has to be.”
rebound-controla strength· where the second chance ends up
“Rebound control is genuinely good — he swallows the first shot far more often than a goaltender this small should be able to.”
puck-handlinghe lacks it· starts the breakout himself
“He handles the puck sparingly and the club does not ask for more.”