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2025-26 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

Tables are computed on this page from the 2025-26 edition’s index; readings rest on the players’ own pages; the model never counts. Twenty questions an hour.

34

Petr Mrazek

Anaheim Ducks Goaltender

An .8912 across two clubs at 33, brought in to give the starter 25 nights off.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2012-13DET211042.01051.922
2013-14DET9240131.742178.927
2014-15DET291692632.383768.918
2015-16DET54271661152.3341448.921
2016-17DET50182191453.0411462.901
2017-18DET/PHI39141361063.0341080.902
2018-19CAR4023143952.3941104.914
2019-20CAR40211621042.6931091.905
2020-21CAR12623232.063298.923
2021-22TOR201260583.340520.888
2022-23CHI39102231323.6601248.894
2023-24CHI56183141603.0511724.907
2024-25CHI/DET38122121163.3511066.891
2025-26 so far——————————
Career—4281801764011342.852612038.906

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

12-21-2 in 38 games between Chicago and Detroit, .8912 with a 3.35 average and 1 shutout on 1,066 shots.

An .8912 is a bad number in any context and the context does not fully excuse it. Both clubs were poor; neither was as bad in front of him as Anaheim was in front of Dostál, and Dostál stopped 12 more pucks per thousand.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 192, and the style is athletic and improvisational rather than technical. He is quick and flexible and makes saves from positions he should not be in, which is exciting and is also why the goals against tends to be high.

The rebound control is the weak point and always has been. He does not track a puck through traffic as well as he did five years ago, and on a club that gives up as many net-front chances as this one that is the specific problem.

The Mental Game

Twelve seasons and six organisations, and a career spent alternating between looking like a starter for two months and being replaced for the next four.

He competes hard and he does not sulk, and there is no record of a bad stretch turning into a lost season. There is also no record of a stretch of consistency lasting a full year.

The Intangibles

Acquired in the deal that sent John Gibson to Detroit, which makes the transaction easy to read: the club moved a large contract and got back 25 starts for one season.

That is a reasonable thing to buy. It is not an insurance policy — if Dostál is hurt, this club’s goaltending goes from 2nd in the league to unwatchable, and the numbers above are the evidence.

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.

  • 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.

  • rebound-controlhe lacks it· where the second chance ends up

    “The rebound control is the weak point and always has been.”

  • tracks-traffiche lacks it· finds it through a screen

    “He does not track a puck through traffic as well as he did five years ago”