This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Karel Vejmelka
Utah Hockey Club Goaltender
An .8979 across 140 games, and never above .8994 in any of his three seasons.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | ARI | 52 | 13 | 32 | 3 | 170 | 3.68 | 1 | 1669 | .898 |
| 2022-23 | ARI | 50 | 18 | 24 | 6 | 168 | 3.43 | 3 | 1670 | .899 |
| 2023-24 | ARI | 38 | 13 | 19 | 2 | 114 | 3.35 | 1 | 1089 | .895 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 140 | 44 | 75 | 11 | 452 | 3.50 | 5 | 4428 | .898 |
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
38 games, 13-19-2 with an .8953 and a 3.35, 1 shutout, facing 1,089 shots.
That is the lowest of his three figures and all three of them are under .9000. Thirteen wins against nineteen losses on a club that finished twenty-seventh is not the whole of it, but the save percentage says the crease was not helping either.
The Physical Game
He is 6-4 and 221.
He is large and plays deep in his crease, covering the net by taking up space rather than by challenging the shooter. At 6-4 that should be worth more than an .8979, and the reason it is not is that the rebounds come back into the slot rather than to the corners.
The Mental Game
A career .8979 across 140 games with 5 shutouts.
An .8981, an .8994 and an .8953 across three seasons is a settled level rather than an unsettled one, which is the worst thing that can be said about it. He has faced more than a thousand shots in each of those seasons and the number has not moved.
The Intangibles
One hundred and forty-fifth overall in 2015 by Nashville, three seasons, all of them with this organisation.
Forty-four career wins against 75 losses in 140 games. He was a fifth-round pick who did not reach the league until he was 25, and he has been given three seasons of first-choice work by a club with nobody else to give them to.