Nico Daws
New Jersey Devils Goaltender
Forty-six career games at an .8937, and the only goaltender in the organisation under thirty.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | NJD | 25 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 66 | 3.11 | 0 | 617 | .893 |
| 2023-24 | NJD | 21 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 60 | 3.15 | 0 | 568 | .894 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 46 | 19 | 22 | 1 | 126 | 3.13 | 0 | 1185 | .894 |
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
21 games, 9-11-0, an .8944 save percentage and a 3.15 goals-against average on 568 shots faced, with no shutouts.
That is almost exactly his career line — .8937 across 46 games — and it came as one of five goaltenders on a club that finished 26th at goaltending. Twenty-one games is a real sample and the answer it gives is no.
The Physical Game
He is 6-4 and 205 and plays a deep, blocking game that relies on filling the net rather than tracking to the puck.
No career shutouts in 46 games. He is large and slow across the crease, and the second shot is where the goals come from. The puck-handling is ordinary and he keeps it simple.
The Mental Game
Rebound control is the weakness and it is the same weakness at every level he has played.
He tracks the first shot through traffic well enough, which at 6-4 is what the style is built on. Two seasons of forty-six games spread across four years is not a development curve.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick in 2020 out of Munich, two seasons, and 46 games at an .8937, all of it for one organisation.
He is 23 and is the only goaltender in this organisation under thirty. Behind two 34-year-olds that matters more than the .8944 does.