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Sergei Bobrovsky

Two Vezinas in Columbus, four Florida seasons under .9130, and thirty-five years old.

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

2010-11	PHI	54	28	13	8	130	2.59	0	1527	.915
2011-12	PHI	29	14	10	2	78	3.02	0	769	.899
2012-13	CBJ	38	21	11	6	74	2.00	4	1084	.932
2013-14	CBJ	58	32	20	5	131	2.38	5	1699	.923
2014-15	CBJ	51	30	17	3	134	2.68	2	1632	.918
2015-16	CBJ	37	15	19	1	97	2.75	1	1049	.907
2016-17	CBJ	63	41	17	5	127	2.06	7	1854	.931
2017-18	CBJ	65	37	22	6	158	2.42	5	1993	.921
2018-19	CBJ	62	37	24	1	153	2.58	9	1756	.913
2019-20	FLA	50	23	19	6	151	3.23	1	1505	.900
2020-21	FLA	31	19	8	2	88	2.91	0	935	.906
2021-22	FLA	54	39	7	3	137	2.67	3	1566	.912
2022-23	FLA	50	24	20	3	145	3.07	1	1466	.901
2023-24 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	642	360	207	51	1603	2.61	38	18835	.915

This Season So Far

The 2023-24 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

24-20-3 in 50 games, .9011, 3.07, one shutout on 1,466 shots.

A .9011 is below what a first-choice goaltender is expected to give, and it is his second-worst full season. The club still finished twelfth in the league in goaltending value, which means the surplus came from the two men behind him, and both have gone.

The four Florida seasons read .8997, .9059, .9125, .9011. The eight Columbus seasons that preceded them include .9317, .9315 and .9229.

Thirteen seasons, and the decline is not a blip — it is four years long.

The Finesse Game

Florida allowed the twentieth-most expected goals per sixty at even strength, so the volume in front of him was real: 1,466 shots in fifty games is 29.3 a night.

He plays deep in the crease and relies on reading the release rather than on cutting angles, which is a style that ages with the reflexes. The book cannot measure that directly. What it can say is that the save percentage has moved one way for four seasons while the workload has not changed much.

One shutout in fifty games. He had nine in a Columbus season.

The Intangibles

Undrafted, out of Novokuznetsk, signed by Philadelphia as a free agent out of Russia, and two Vezina Trophies later.

He was thirty-four last season and is signed for four more years, which is the contract that shapes every decision Florida makes in this crease.

A .9011 season is not a disaster on a club that generates the second-most expected goals per sixty in the league at even strength. It is also not what the club is paying for, and it has now happened four years running.

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

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 in the crease and relies on reading the release rather than on cutting angles, which is a style that ages with the reflexes.”