Spencer Martin
New York Rangers Goaltender
An .8457 in 9 games for Carolina, and a career .8828 across five seasons.
| 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 | CAR | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 27 | 3.89 | 1 | 175 | .846 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 66 | 24 | 30 | 8 | 217 | 3.56 | 1 | 1852 | .883 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
3-4-1 in 9 games for Carolina with an .8457, a 3.89 average and 1 shutout, facing 175 shots.
An .8457 is a bad number on a sample far too small to convict anybody with. The career figure is the one that matters: .8828 across 66 games and five seasons, which is not a number an NHL goaltender survives on.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 191, and the game is size and athleticism rather than technique. He covers the top of the net by standing in it and he is beaten low and across more than a positional goaltender would be.
The depth in the crease is inconsistent — he is out at the top of it on one shot and on his line the next — and the rebound control is poor. Those are the same faults he had five years ago and they have not been corrected.
The Mental Game
66 NHL games in five seasons for a succession of clubs, with one good stretch in Vancouver that ended as quickly as it started.
There is no evidence of him unravelling and none of a sustained good run either. The honest read is a goaltender who has never been given a settled situation and has not done enough in any of them to earn one.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick in 2013 who is 30 and has 66 NHL games.
He is the third goaltender, signed to play in Hartford and to be the emergency here. Behind a 29-year-old on an eight-year contract and a 39-year-old, that is a job with a very specific and very small shape, and he is the right size for it.
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.
- 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.
“The depth in the crease is inconsistent — he is out at the top of it on one shot and on his line the next”
“the rebound control is poor. Those are the same faults he had five years ago and they have not been corrected.”
“He covers the top of the net by standing in it and he is beaten low and across more than a positional goaltender would be.”