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Semyon Varlamov
New York Islanders Goaltender #40
Six hundred and twenty-one games at a career .9156, and none last season.
| Season | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 2.89 | 0 | 262 | .889 |
| Career | 621 | 289 | 232 | 71 | 1572 | 2.65 | 41 | 18625 | .916 |
No games in 2025-26. The season above is the last one he played, and everything on this page should be read with that gap in it.
2024-25
Ten appearances, 3-4-3, a 2.89 goals-against average and a .8893 save percentage. He did not appear in the NHL last season.
His career figure across 621 games is .9156, which is among the best of any goaltender in this book.
The Physical Game
Six foot two, 201, and for most of a long career an unusually athletic goaltender — he made saves from positions that should not have been recoverable, and the flexibility was the whole of it.
That is the part that goes first. A back injury took most of two seasons and there is no recent evidence of what remains.
The Mental Game
Seventeen seasons, 289 wins, and a long stretch as one of the more consistently underrated goaltenders in the league. He has been a starter, a tandem partner and an injured reserve without visible complaint.
The Intangibles
There is nothing measurable to report from last season because there was no last season.
He is 38, and the Islanders have Sorokin — whose goaltending came in twenty goals better than the chances faced — and Vanecek at .8834. A third goaltender at 38 coming off a lost year is organisational depth rather than a plan.
Six hundred and twenty-one games at .9156 is the career. Whether there is another game in it is genuinely unknown, and this page will not pretend otherwise.