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48

Logan Thompson

Vegas Golden Knights Goaltender

Undrafted, a .9152 level with Andrei Vasilevskiy, and one of four right-handed goaltenders in this book.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2020-21VGK100000.00021.000
2021-22VGK191053492.681569.914
2022-23VGK3721133962.6521132.915
2023-24 so far——————————
Career—57311861452.6531703.915

This Season So Far

The 2023-24 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

21-13-3 in 37 games, .9152, 2.65, two shutouts on 1,132 shots.

That is eleventh of the 35 goaltenders in this book who faced a thousand shots, level with Andrei Vasilevskiy, and those 35 stopped .9067 between them. On 1,132 shots the distance from that rate to his is about ten goals.

Thirty-seven games in his first season as a starter, ended by an injury that cost him the run to the Cup.

Vegas’s goaltending was worth plus-9.7 goals against the chances it faced, ninth in the league, and it was produced by four different men.

30.6 shots a night behind a club that finished fifteenth in chance share.

Three seasons, 57 games, a career .9149.

The Finesse Game

6-4 and 207 pounds, and he catches with his right hand — one of only four goaltenders in this book who does.

That is not a curiosity for its own sake. A right-handed catching glove sits where a shooter’s eye expects a blocker, and the league’s shooting habits are built around the other arrangement.

He plays big and square and lets the puck hit him, which at 6-4 is the efficient version of the position and is why 1,132 shots produced only ninety-six goals.

The rebound control is good.

He is beaten across the crease rather than through the body — the lateral play is the weakness, and the goal against him is the one after a pass rather than the one after a screen.

The seasons read a single relief appearance, .9139 on 569 shots and .9152 on 1,132. A career .9149 across 1,703 shots is a small sample and every part of it is good.

The Intangibles

Undrafted, three seasons, 57 games, all of them here.

31 wins, three shutouts, and a career .9149.

He is twenty-six, an undrafted goaltender out of Calgary who reached the league at twenty-four and was the club’s number one until an injury handed the job to somebody else at the worst possible moment.

An undrafted goaltender with a .9149 across fifty-seven games is a genuinely valuable asset and an unsettled one. Fifty-seven games is not enough to know, the club now has two men who can play, and the one who is not him has a Stanley Cup for it.

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.

  • undrafteda strength· arrived without a pick attached

    “An undrafted goaltender with a .9149 across fifty-seven games is a genuinely valuable asset and an unsettled one.”

  • plays-deepa strength· takes the net away by occupying it

    “He plays big and square and lets the puck hit him, which at 6-4 is the efficient version of the position and is why 1,132 shots produced only ninety-six goals.”

  • lateral-recoveryhe lacks it· post-to-post, and across the slot

    “He is beaten across the crease rather than through the body — the lateral play is the weakness, and the goal against him is the one after a pass rather than the one after a screen.”