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33

Ville Husso

Detroit Red Wings Goaltender

A .9192 in St Louis at 27, an .8921 in Detroit at 29, and nineteen games.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2020-21STL17961493.211460.893
2021-22STL4025761002.5621236.919
2022-23DET56262271673.1141603.896
2023-24DET19952603.550556.892
2024-25 so far——————————
Career—1326940163763.0173855.902

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

Nineteen games, 9-5-2, an .8921 save percentage, a 3.55 average and no shutouts on 556 shots.

A career .9025 across 132 games, and two seasons in Detroit that have both been below it. The club’s goaltending was 25th in the league and he is part of the reason it was not better.

The Physical Game

He is 6-3 and 205 and covers a great deal of net standing still. The size is the method and against a clean shot from distance there is very little to shoot at.

The lateral recovery has gone. The second play across the crease is the one that beats him now, and a club that moves the puck east-west finds it every time. Behind the 27th-ranked chance suppression in hockey that is a fatal combination.

The Mental Game

Sixty-nine wins in 132 career games is a good record and almost all of it was collected in St Louis. Two seasons in Detroit have both come in below his career rate, and nineteen games last year is the club’s own verdict on the trend.

He is 29, which is young for a goaltender, and the numbers have gone one way for three years.

The Intangibles

A fourth-round pick in 2014 out of Helsinki, who posted a .9192 in St Louis at 27 and was traded on the strength of it.

Detroit has signed Cam Talbot and kept Alex Lyon. He is third and there is nothing in the last two seasons to argue with that.

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.

  • tracks-traffica strength· finds it through a screen

    “He is 6-3 and 205 and covers a great deal of net standing still.”

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

    “The lateral recovery has gone. The second play across the crease is the one that beats him now, and a club that moves the puck east-west finds it every time.”