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Spencer Martin

Carolina Hurricanes Goaltender

A career .8867 across fifty-seven games, and a third goaltender's job on a club with four.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2016-17COL3021134.35096.865
2021-22VAN6303111.740218.950
2022-23VAN29111511073.990830.871
2023-24CBJ/CAR19792593.300533.889
2024-25 so far——————————
Career—57212671903.5201677.887

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.

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
  • he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

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 and relies on position rather than athleticism, which is the correct choice and is not enough.”

  • rebound-controlhe lacks it· where the second chance ends up

    “**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.”