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Philipp Grubauer

An .8752 in 26 games at 33, in the fourth year of a six-year contract that has not worked from the day it was signed.

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

2012-13	WSH	2	0	1	0	5	3.57	0	59	.915
2013-14	WSH	17	6	5	5	35	2.38	0	469	.925
2014-15	WSH	1	1	0	0	2	1.85	0	25	.920
2015-16	WSH	22	8	9	1	43	2.32	0	523	.918
2016-17	WSH	24	13	6	2	43	2.04	3	585	.926
2017-18	WSH	35	15	10	3	73	2.35	3	953	.923
2018-19	COL	37	18	9	5	89	2.64	3	1071	.917
2019-20	COL	36	18	12	4	90	2.63	2	1067	.916
2020-21	COL	40	30	9	1	77	1.95	7	993	.922
2021-22	SEA	55	18	31	5	164	3.16	2	1479	.889
2022-23	SEA	39	17	14	4	98	2.85	0	930	.895
2023-24	SEA	36	14	16	2	95	2.85	2	941	.899
2024-25	SEA	26	8	17	1	85	3.49	0	681	.875
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	370	166	139	33	899	2.65	22	9776	.908

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

8-17-1 in 26 games with an .8752, a 3.49 average and no shutouts, facing 681 shots.

It is the worst save percentage of his career by thirty points and the third consecutive season under .900. He has a career .9080 and 22 shutouts, and none of that is visible in the last four years.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 188 and small for the modern position, which was never a problem when the technique was working. He plays deep and relies on positioning and reads rather than on covering the net with his body.

The lateral recovery is the part that has gone. The second chance across the crease is a goal far more often than it used to be, and behind a club that is 23rd at suppressing chances there are a great many second chances. The rebound control is poor and he does not handle the puck well.

The Mental Game

He posted a .9223 in Colorado in 2020-21 and was a Vezina finalist, signed a six-year contract with Seattle that summer, and has not been the same goaltender since the first month of it.

Four seasons of this is no longer a slump and it is difficult to read the last of them as anything other than a career ending in public.

The Intangibles

A fourth-round pick in 2010 out of Germany and 370 games with a career .9080.

He is 34, the contract has time left on it, and Seattle has a 29-year-old starter signed long. There is no version of the depth chart in which he is the answer to anything.

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-deepa strength· takes the net away by occupying it
“He plays deep and relies on positioning and reads rather than on covering the net with his body.”
lateral-recoveryhe lacks it· post-to-post, and across the slot
“**The lateral recovery is the part that has gone.** The second chance across the crease is a goal far more often than it used to be, and behind a club that is 23rd at suppressing chances there are a great many second chances.”
rebound-controlhe lacks it· where the second chance ends up
“The rebound control is poor and he does not handle the puck well.”
puck-handlinghe lacks it· starts the breakout himself
“The rebound control is poor and he does not handle the puck well.”