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48

Logan Thompson

Washington Capitals Goaltender

Undrafted, 31-6-6, and a .9104 behind the 20th-best chance suppression in the league.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2020-21VGK100000.00021.000
2021-22VGK191053492.681569.914
2022-23VGK3721133962.6521132.915
2023-24VGK46251451192.7011298.908
2024-25WSH4331661052.4921172.910
2025-26 so far——————————
Career—1468738173692.6264173.912

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

31-6-6 in 43 games with a .9104, a 2.49 average and 2 shutouts, facing 1,172 shots.

The club’s goaltending came in 14.0 goals better than the chances faced, 7th in the league, behind a defence that was 20th at suppressing them. Thirty-one wins in forty-three starts is the best winning percentage of any goaltender in this edition, and a share of that is a club that scored 288 goals.

The Physical Game

6-4 and 207 and he plays deep and large. He sets at the top of the crease, he is square almost without exception, and the frame takes the top of the net away without him having to move for it.

The rebound control is good and the glove is genuinely quick for the size. The lateral recovery is the cost of the style and it is a real one — a second chance from the far post is a long way for him.

The Mental Game

He was undrafted, played four years of junior and three of college hockey before anybody signed him, and did not play an NHL game until he was 24.

He is 28 and has a career .9116 across 146 games. He was Vegas’s starter and was traded for two third-round picks, which is what the market thought of a goaltender with those numbers. He then went 31-6-6.

The Intangibles

Undrafted out of Brock University and Bemidji State, signed by Vegas in 2020, and 146 NHL games.

He is 28 and this is the first season anybody has treated him as an unambiguous number one. He signed a six-year extension in January.

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

    “**Undrafted out of Brock University and Bemidji State**, signed by Vegas in 2020, and 146 NHL games.”

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

    “**6-4 and 207 and he plays deep and large.** He sets at the top of the crease, he is square almost without exception, and the frame takes the top of the net away without him having to move for it.”

  • rebound-controla strength· where the second chance ends up

    “**The rebound control is good** and the glove is genuinely quick for the size.”

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

    “The lateral recovery is the cost of the style and it is a real one — a second chance from the far post is a long way for him.”