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Petr Mrazek

A .8942 across 39 games, and the club's other goaltender finished on .8940.

Season	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	GA	GAA	SO	SA	SV%

2012-13	DET	2	1	1	0	4	2.01	0	51	.922
2013-14	DET	9	2	4	0	13	1.74	2	178	.927
2014-15	DET	29	16	9	2	63	2.38	3	768	.918
2015-16	DET	54	27	16	6	115	2.33	4	1448	.921
2016-17	DET	50	18	21	9	145	3.04	1	1462	.901
2017-18	DET/PHI	39	14	13	6	106	3.03	4	1080	.902
2018-19	CAR	40	23	14	3	95	2.39	4	1104	.914
2019-20	CAR	40	21	16	2	104	2.69	3	1091	.905
2020-21	CAR	12	6	2	3	23	2.06	3	298	.923
2021-22	TOR	20	12	6	0	58	3.34	0	520	.888
2022-23	CHI	39	10	22	3	132	3.66	0	1248	.894
2023-24 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	334	150	124	34	858	2.76	24	9248	.907

This Season So Far

The 2023-24 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

39 games, 10-22-3, a .8942 save percentage and a 3.66 goals-against average on 1,248 shots, with no shutouts.

His career figure is .9072 across 334 games, so this is thirteen thousandths below his own established level.

Chicago’s goaltending graded minus-21.1, thirtieth in the league. The club conceded 208 goals at five-on-five against an expectation of 186.9 — twenty-one more than the chances predicted, and that number is the crease.

The Finesse Game

1,248 shots in 39 games is 32 a night, and Chicago was 28th in expected goals against a sixty, so the shots were plentiful and they were dangerous. That is the hardest workload any goaltender in this chapter faced and it is the fair context for a .894.

It is also not an excuse, because the goaltending metric already accounts for where the shots came from, and it still says minus-21.1. A goaltender facing hard shots is expected to concede more; he conceded more than that.

The strongest evidence available is that Arvid Söderblom finished on .8940 in the same crease, two ten-thousandths from Mrazek’s figure. Two goaltenders arriving at the same number is the same shape of evidence Calgary produced in this edition with Markström on .8923 and Vladař on .8921, and it points the same way: this is a statement about the club, and it is also a statement about both men, and the data cannot apportion it.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 192, an aggressive, athletic goaltender who has always played on the edge of his crease and always given up rebounds when the first save is a hard one.

He is 31 and has been a starter, a backup and a starter again at four organisations. The 39 games are the most he has played since 2019-20.

The Intangibles

A fifth-round pick by Detroit in 2010, and a career of being good enough to be given the net and not good enough to keep it.

334 games, 150 wins and 24 shutouts is a real NHL career. On a club that is about to be genuinely bad for another season, he is the man who takes the shots so that a 24-year-old does not have to.

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-aggressivea strength· meets the shooter at the top of the crease
“an aggressive, athletic goaltender who has always played on the edge of his crease”
rebound-controlhe lacks it· where the second chance ends up
“always given up rebounds when the first save is a hard one”