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Semyon Varlamov

Six hundred and eleven games, 286 wins, 41 shutouts, and a .9176 at 36.

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

2008-09	WSH	6	4	0	1	13	2.37	0	159	.918
2009-10	WSH	26	15	4	6	65	2.55	2	718	.909
2010-11	WSH	27	11	9	5	58	2.23	2	759	.924
2011-12	COL	53	26	24	3	136	2.59	4	1564	.913
2012-13	COL	35	11	21	3	98	3.02	3	1007	.903
2013-14	COL	63	41	14	6	146	2.41	2	2013	.927
2014-15	COL	57	28	20	8	141	2.56	5	1791	.921
2015-16	COL	57	27	25	3	148	2.81	2	1714	.914
2016-17	COL	24	6	17	0	76	3.38	1	745	.898
2017-18	COL	51	24	16	6	128	2.68	2	1595	.920
2018-19	COL	49	20	19	9	136	2.87	2	1496	.909
2019-20	NYI	45	19	14	6	110	2.62	2	1278	.914
2020-21	NYI	36	19	11	4	72	2.04	7	1020	.929
2021-22	NYI	31	10	17	2	87	2.91	2	978	.911
2022-23	NYI	23	11	9	2	60	2.70	2	689	.913
2023-24	NYI	28	14	8	4	69	2.60	3	837	.918
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	611	286	228	68	1543	2.64	41	18363	.916

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

28 games, 14-8-4, a .9176 save percentage and a 2.60 goals-against average with 3 shutouts on 837 shots faced.

That was the better of the two save percentages in this crease, against a career .9160 across 611 games. Three shutouts in twenty-eight starts at 35 is a very good season by any reading of it.

The Physical Game

He is 6-2 and 201 and plays higher in his crease than Ilya Sorokin does, challenging the shooter and recovering across on athleticism.

Forty-one career shutouts in 611 games. He is quicker across the crease than a 36-year-old has any right to be and that is the part of the game that has held up. He handles the puck well and is willing to leave the net.

The Mental Game

Rebound control is the weaker half — the aggressive depth means more pucks end up loose than they do at the other end of the tandem.

He tracks well through traffic and has done for sixteen seasons. Twenty-eight games a year is the arrangement now and he has been better at it than most starters.

The Intangibles

Twenty-third overall in 2006 by Washington, out of Samara, sixteen seasons across three organisations, 611 games, 286 wins and 41 shutouts at a career .9160.

He is 36 and put up the best save percentage on his club. Two Russian goaltenders over 29 and nothing behind them is the most obvious risk on this roster and also the reason it got to ninety-four points.