This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Lukas Dostal
Anaheim Ducks Goaltender
A .9015 in forty-four games at twenty-four, behind the twenty-fourth-best defence in hockey.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | ANA | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 2.98 | 0 | 108 | .907 |
| 2022-23 | ANA | 19 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 67 | 3.78 | 0 | 679 | .901 |
| 2023-24 | ANA | 44 | 14 | 23 | 3 | 129 | 3.33 | 1 | 1310 | .901 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 67 | 19 | 35 | 6 | 206 | 3.45 | 1 | 2097 | .902 |
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
14-23-3 with a .9015, a 3.33 average and 1 shutout in 44 games, facing 1,310 shots. His first real season of NHL work, at 24.
A .9015 behind the 24th-ranked chance suppression in the league is a better season than the number reads, and it is eleven points of save percentage better than the man he was splitting the crease with.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 190 and small for the modern position, which means the technique has to be exact and mostly is.
He plays aggressively, meeting the shooter at the top of the crease rather than waiting in it — the compensation a goaltender that size makes, and it costs him on the second play. The lateral recovery is quick and it has to be.
The rebound control is decent rather than good and the puck-handling is genuinely good — he leaves the crease to retrieve and starts the breakout himself, which on a club with this blue line is worth real minutes.
The Mental Game
Forty-four games on a thirtieth-place club, more than half of them lost, and the save percentage did not fall away in the second half. That is the thing worth knowing about a young goaltender.
He was 19-35-6 across three seasons coming into it and had never played more than nineteen games in a year.
The Intangibles
Eighty-fifth overall in 2018, out of Brno, and a third-round goaltender who has taken the crease from a man drafted to hold it for a decade.
He is 24 and there are three goaltenders on this roster. The .9015 says the job is his and the club has not yet acted as though it is.