This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Pyotr Kochetkov
Carolina Hurricanes Goaltender
A .9108 with four shutouts at twenty-four, behind the best chance suppression in hockey.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | CAR | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2.42 | 0 | 61 | .902 |
| 2022-23 | CAR | 24 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 57 | 2.44 | 4 | 627 | .909 |
| 2023-24 | CAR | 42 | 23 | 13 | 4 | 92 | 2.33 | 4 | 1031 | .911 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 69 | 38 | 20 | 9 | 155 | 2.37 | 8 | 1719 | .910 |
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
23-13-4 with a .9108, a 2.33 average and 4 shutouts in 42 games at 24, facing 1,031 shots.
The club’s goaltending came in 1.6 goals better than the chances faced, 14th in the league, behind the best chance suppression in hockey. That is the honest frame: a .9108 in front of a defence allowing 2.397 expected goals per 60 is an average season, not a good one.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 196. He plays aggressively, meeting the shooter at the top of the crease rather than waiting in it, and the athleticism is genuine — he makes a save two or three times a month that a positional goaltender simply does not reach.
The lateral recovery is quick and it has to be, because a goaltender that far out of his net is beaten by a lateral pass rather than by a shot. The rebound control is decent rather than good and the second chance too often comes back into the slot.
The glove is quick.
The Mental Game
Forty-two games in a first season as a co-starter, on a club that won 111 points, and a career .9098 across 69 games.
Four shutouts in forty-two games is a real number and it came behind a defence that makes shutouts more available than most. He has not yet been asked to carry a season.
The Intangibles
Thirty-sixth overall in 2019 and 69 NHL games at 25, with 38 wins.
This club has four goaltenders on its books and no settled answer, and he is the youngest and the likeliest. A club first in the league at suppressing chances that gets exactly average goaltending is leaving the cheapest points in the sport on the table, and the crease is where the next ten points are.