This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Samuel Ersson
Philadelphia Flyers Goaltender
Fifty-one games and an .8904, behind the seventh-best chance suppression in the league.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | PHI | 12 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 33 | 3.07 | 1 | 327 | .899 |
| 2023-24 | PHI | 51 | 23 | 19 | 7 | 132 | 2.82 | 4 | 1204 | .890 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 63 | 29 | 22 | 7 | 165 | 2.87 | 5 | 1531 | .892 |
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
51 games, 23-19-7, an .8904 and a 2.82, 1,204 shots faced and 4 shutouts.
Philadelphia’s crease came in 29.3 goals worse than the chances it faced, thirty-first in the league, behind a club that allowed the seventh-fewest expected goals per 60 at even strength. His .8904 was tied for the eighth-lowest save percentage of any goaltender who played twenty-five games, and of the eight at or below him only Joonas Korpisalo played more of them.
The Physical Game
He is 6-3 and 194 and plays a controlled, positional game with very little athleticism in it.
Four shutouts in 51 games and five in a 63-game career. He is square and quiet and does not improvise; when the first shot is stopped the puck tends to stay in front of him rather than going to a corner, and the second chance is where the season went. He handles the puck without doing anything with it.
The Mental Game
A career .8922 across 63 games, and an .8991 in 12 games the season before this one.
Twenty-three wins in a first season as a starter, at 24, on a club that finished twentieth. There is no earlier body of NHL work to set this against — 63 games is the whole of it — and an .8922 across them is not yet evidence of anything except that it has not gone well.
The Intangibles
143rd overall in 2018, two seasons and 63 games at 24, both of them in Philadelphia.
A fifth-round pick handed fifty-one games at 24 because there was nobody else. Philadelphia took more than half the chances at five-on-five and finished twentieth, and this is the position that explains it.