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Mackenzie Blackwood
San Jose Sharks Goaltender
Thirty-one shots a night, the fourth-most in this edition, and a 3.45 to go with them.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | NJD | 23 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 55 | 2.61 | 2 | 669 | .918 |
| 2019-20 | NJD | 47 | 22 | 14 | 8 | 124 | 2.77 | 3 | 1452 | .915 |
| 2020-21 | NJD | 35 | 14 | 17 | 4 | 106 | 3.04 | 1 | 1081 | .902 |
| 2021-22 | NJD | 25 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 79 | 3.39 | 2 | 731 | .892 |
| 2022-23 | NJD | 22 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 60 | 3.20 | 0 | 563 | .893 |
| 2023-24 | SJS | 44 | 10 | 25 | 4 | 140 | 3.45 | 2 | 1383 | .899 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 196 | 75 | 82 | 22 | 564 | 3.08 | 10 | 5879 | .904 |
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
44 games, 10-25-4 with an .8988 and a 3.45, 2 shutouts, facing 1,383 shots.
Thirty-one and a half shots a night is the fourth-highest workload of any goaltender who played twenty-five games, and the 3.45 goals-against average is the fourth-highest as well. San Jose gave up the most expected goals per 60 at even strength of any club in the league, and this is what that looks like from the crease.
The Physical Game
He is 6-4 and 225.
He is a large goaltender who takes up net rather than moving around it, sets deep and lets shots hit him, and does not chase the play. Behind a club that concedes as much as this one that is the right approach and the only sustainable one; behind a better club the second chances would be the thing to fix.
The Mental Game
A career .9041 across 196 games and 5,879 shots faced.
He was a .9178 and a .9146 in his first two full seasons in New Jersey and has not been above .9019 in the four since. Ten career shutouts in 196 games says the good nights are still there, and a 10-25-4 record on this club says almost nothing about him either way.
The Intangibles
Forty-second overall in 2015 by New Jersey, six seasons, two organisations, and 196 games.
Seventy-five career wins and 82 losses. He is 27, he has faced 5,879 career shots, and he has never once played behind a club that was better than average at keeping the puck away from him.
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.
“He is a large goaltender who takes up net rather than moving around it, sets deep and lets shots hit him, and does not chase the play.”
“Behind a club that concedes as much as this one that is the right approach and the only sustainable one; behind a better club the second chances would be the thing to fix.”