This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Thatcher Demko
Vancouver Canucks Goaltender
Thirty-five wins in 51 games — the fewest games any of the six men who won thirty-five needed.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | VAN | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3.91 | 0 | 30 | .867 |
| 2018-19 | VAN | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 25 | 2.81 | 0 | 288 | .913 |
| 2019-20 | VAN | 27 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 78 | 3.06 | 0 | 822 | .905 |
| 2020-21 | VAN | 35 | 16 | 18 | 1 | 99 | 2.85 | 1 | 1164 | .915 |
| 2021-22 | VAN | 64 | 33 | 22 | 7 | 168 | 2.72 | 1 | 1967 | .915 |
| 2022-23 | VAN | 32 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 99 | 3.16 | 1 | 1005 | .901 |
| 2023-24 | VAN | 51 | 35 | 14 | 2 | 123 | 2.45 | 5 | 1492 | .918 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 219 | 116 | 81 | 17 | 596 | 2.79 | 8 | 6768 | .912 |
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
51 games, 35-14-2 with a .9176 and a 2.45, 5 shutouts, facing 1,492 shots.
The .9176 was tied for the third-best figure of any goaltender who played twenty-five games, and 35 wins in 51 games is the fewest any of the six men who reached thirty-five needed. Five shutouts is more than he had managed in the six seasons before it put together.
The Physical Game
He is 6-4 and 192.
He plays tall and square at the top of the crease and lets the shot come to him rather than pushing out to meet it; at 6-4 that covers the net without requiring the recovery, and the tracking through a screen is the best part of it. The weight is the question a 192-pound goaltender always faces in a scramble.
The Mental Game
A career .9119 across 219 games with 8 shutouts.
He has been above .9130 in four seasons and below .9060 in three others, and last season was the best of the seven. Two hundred and nineteen games across seven years is a career that has never had two consecutive settled ones.
The Intangibles
Thirty-sixth overall in 2014 by Vancouver, seven seasons, one organisation, and 116 wins in 219 games.
A hundred and sixteen career wins against 81 losses. He is 28, he has played more than fifty games twice in seven seasons, and the club has just built a fifth-place defensive record in front of him.
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.
“He plays tall and square at the top of the crease and lets the shot come to him rather than pushing out to meet it; at 6-4 that covers the net without requiring the recovery, and the tracking through a screen is the best part of it.”
“The weight is the question a 192-pound goaltender always faces in a scramble.”