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Ville Husso
Anaheim Ducks Goaltender #33
A career .900 goaltender, and two straight seasons well below it.
| Season | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 62 | 3.25 | 0 | 534 | .884 |
| Career | 165 | 81 | 54 | 21 | 475 | 3.07 | 7 | 4725 | .899 |
Last Season
Twenty appearances, 10-8-2, a 3.25 goals-against average and a .884 save percentage. No shutouts. His career figure is .8995 across 165 games, so this was a long way under his own standard.
The Physical Game
Six foot three and 205, which is the modern build, and he takes up the net well when he is square. The technique is sound and unspectacular: he is a positional goaltender who wants the shot to come to him.
The trouble is lateral. On plays that move him across the crease he arrives late and reaching, and against a second-chance team that is where the goals come from. Rebound control is ordinary.
The Mental Game
He has been a starter, lost the job, and come back as a backup, which is a harder road than it sounds and he has not visibly soured on it. Twenty appearances behind a defence that conceded the fourth-most expected goals in the league is not a fair test of anybody.
The Intangibles
He is 31, and the two numbers that matter both point the same way: .884 last season, and a club whose goaltending came in 33 goals worse than the chances it faced would predict. Anaheim has not solved this position and Husso is not obviously the answer to it either.
The team in front of him finished third in the NHL in even-strength expected goals for. If either goaltender gets to league average, this becomes a different club overnight. That is the whole story of the season here.