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2024-25 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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35

Tristan Jarry

Pittsburgh Penguins Goaltender

Six shutouts, tied for the most in this edition, and a 19-25-5 record to go with them.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2016-17PIT101033.06025.880
2017-18PIT261462632.772687.908
2018-19PIT201173.50062.887
2019-20PIT3320121782.433985.921
2020-21PIT3925931002.7521100.909
2021-22PIT58341861382.4241711.919
2022-23PIT47241371282.9021414.909
2023-24PIT51192551332.9161369.903
2024-25 so far——————————
Career—25713685256502.70197353.912

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, 19-25-5 with a .9028 and a 2.91, 6 shutouts, facing 1,369 shots.

Six shutouts is tied for the most of any goaltender in this edition, alongside Sergei Bobrovsky, Charlie Lindgren and Connor Ingram. The .9028 is the lowest of any season in which he has played more than twenty-five games, and the club’s goaltending still came out 2.8 goals ahead of the chances it faced, because those chances were the twenty-sixth-worst in the league.

The Physical Game

He is 6-4 and 201.

He plays deep in his crease and lets the size do the work rather than challenging out to the top of the paint. The first save is usually clean and the trouble comes on the second, because pucks die in front of him rather than going to the corners. The lateral push across a wide crease at that height is the part that has always been slower than it looks.

The Mental Game

Nineteen shutouts in 257 career games.

A career .9116 across eight seasons is the truer figure than any single year of it, and he has been above .9080 in five of the six seasons in which he played more than twenty-five games. He is capable of taking a game away from a club entirely and equally capable of a soft one at a bad moment, and last season’s record contained a great deal of both.

The Intangibles

Forty-fourth overall in 2013, eight seasons, all of them in Pittsburgh, and 257 games.

He has played at least thirty games in each of the last five seasons for the same club. At 29 he is neither young enough to be a project nor good enough to be settled, which is an uncomfortable place for a goaltender on a club three points out.

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 in his crease and lets the size do the work rather than challenging out to the top of the paint.”

  • lateral-recoveryhe lacks it· post-to-post, and across the slot

    “The lateral push across a wide crease at that height is the part that has always been slower than it looks.”

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

    “The first save is usually clean and the trouble comes on the second, because pucks die in front of him rather than going to the corners.”