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Linus Ullmark
Ottawa Senators Goaltender
A career .9184 across 247 games, bought to fix a crease that cost twenty-seven goals.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | BUF | 20 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 49 | 2.60 | 0 | 565 | .913 |
| 2016-17 | BUF | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3.06 | 0 | 36 | .917 |
| 2017-18 | BUF | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2.00 | 0 | 123 | .935 |
| 2018-19 | BUF | 37 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 109 | 3.11 | 2 | 1146 | .905 |
| 2019-20 | BUF | 34 | 17 | 14 | 3 | 91 | 2.69 | 1 | 1066 | .915 |
| 2020-21 | BUF | 20 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 49 | 2.63 | 0 | 591 | .917 |
| 2021-22 | BOS | 41 | 26 | 10 | 2 | 95 | 2.45 | 1 | 1140 | .917 |
| 2022-23 | BOS | 49 | 40 | 6 | 1 | 91 | 1.89 | 2 | 1457 | .938 |
| 2023-24 | BOS | 40 | 22 | 10 | 7 | 103 | 2.57 | 2 | 1207 | .915 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 247 | 138 | 73 | 23 | 598 | 2.51 | 8 | 7331 | .918 |
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
40 games for Boston, 22-10-7, a .9147 and a 2.57, 1,207 shots faced and 2 shutouts.
He has been above .9140 in each of his last four seasons and went 40-6-1 with a .9375 in 2022-23. Ottawa’s crease came in 26.6 goals worse than the chances it faced last season, thirtieth in the league, and this is the club’s entire answer to it.
The Physical Game
He is 6-4 and 223 and takes the net away with size rather than with movement.
Eight shutouts in 247 games. He plays deep enough to keep everything in front of him and square enough that the puck hits him rather than being caught; at that size there is very little net showing and the second chance rarely arrives because the first rebound goes to the corner. He handles the puck adequately without being a third defenceman.
The Mental Game
A career .9184 across 247 games with 138 wins and a 2.51.
Nine seasons, six of them in Buffalo on clubs that were badly outshot, and a career .9184 against the .8896 and .8902 Ottawa’s two regular goaltenders produced — close to thirty points of save percentage. Boston was sixteenth in the league at suppressing chances last season, so the .9147 was not built behind an unusually good defensive club.
The Intangibles
163rd overall in 2012 by Buffalo, nine seasons, two organisations and 247 games at 31.
A sixth-round pick who took until his seventh season to play forty games in one and has been one of the best in the league since. If he plays to his career average Ottawa recovers most of twenty-seven goals, and there is nowhere else on this roster where that much is available.
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
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.
“He plays deep enough to keep everything in front of him and square enough that the puck hits him rather than being caught; at that size there is very little net showing and the second chance rarely arrives because the first rebound goes to the corner.”
“Eight shutouts in 247 games.”
“He handles the puck adequately without being a third defenceman.”