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48

Logan Thompson

Washington Capitals Goaltender

Undrafted, with 56 career wins against 32 losses.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2020-21VGK100000.00021.000
2021-22VGK191053492.681569.914
2022-23VGK3721133962.6521132.915
2023-24VGK46251451192.7011298.908
2024-25 so far——————————
Career—1035632112642.6743001.912

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

46 games with Vegas, 25-14-5 with a .9083 and a 2.70, 1 shutout, facing 1,298 shots.

Twenty-five wins in 46 games behind a club that finished twelfth at both ends. The .9083 is the lowest figure of his three full seasons and the win total is the largest.

The Physical Game

He is 6-4 and 207.

He is large and plays deep and square, covering the net by occupying it rather than by challenging out of it. At 6-4 that takes care of the first shot without needing the recovery, and the push across the crease is what has to be watched.

The Mental Game

A career .9120 across 103 games with 4 shutouts.

Fifty-six wins against 32 losses in 103 games is a record that owes a great deal to the club in front of him. A career .9120 across a hundred games from a goaltender nobody drafted is the part that is his.

The Intangibles

Undrafted, four seasons, and Washington will be his second organisation.

Fifty-six career wins against 32 losses in 103 games from a man nobody drafted. He is 27, he did not reach the league until he was 24, and he arrives to share a crease with another undrafted goaltender.

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 large and plays deep and square, covering the net by occupying it rather than by challenging out of it.”

  • undrafteda strength· arrived without a pick attached

    “A career .9120 across a hundred games from a goaltender nobody drafted is the part that is his.”

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

    “At 6-4 that takes care of the first shot without needing the recovery, and the push across the crease is what has to be watched.”