This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2025-26 report →
Spencer Martin
Carolina Hurricanes Goaltender
A career .8867 across fifty-seven games, and a third goaltender's job on a club with four.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | COL | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 4.35 | 0 | 96 | .865 |
| 2021-22 | VAN | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 1.74 | 0 | 218 | .950 |
| 2022-23 | VAN | 29 | 11 | 15 | 1 | 107 | 3.99 | 0 | 830 | .871 |
| 2023-24 | CBJ/CAR | 19 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 59 | 3.30 | 0 | 533 | .889 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 57 | 21 | 26 | 7 | 190 | 3.52 | 0 | 1677 | .887 |
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
7-9-2 with an .8893, a 3.30 average and no shutouts in 19 games, facing 533 shots.
It leaves him at a career .8867 across 57 games, and the club’s goaltending as a whole was 14th in the league behind the best chance suppression in hockey.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 191 and light for the height. He plays deep and relies on position rather than athleticism, which is the correct choice and is not enough.
The rebound control is the weakness and it is the reason for the career number — the second chance goes back into the slot, and behind a defence that allows the fewest chances in the league that is the only way to concede at this rate.
The Mental Game
Nineteen games on a 111-point club, with a .8893, and 21 wins in 57 career games across four seasons and three organisations.
He has never been given more than twenty-nine games in a season and the save percentage has not moved in any of them.
The Intangibles
Sixty-third overall in 2013 by Colorado, and 57 NHL games across four seasons at 29, most of the career in the American league.
This club carried four goaltenders and got exactly average goaltending out of them, and he is the fourth. A third-round pick who reaches fifty-seven NHL games has had a career most of his draft class did not.