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33

Ville Husso

Anaheim Ducks Goaltender

An .8899 in 13 games, and a third goaltender on a roster that needs its first two to be healthy.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2020-21STL17961493.211460.893
2021-22STL4025761002.5621236.919
2022-23DET56262271673.1141603.896
2023-24DET19952603.550556.892
2024-25DET/ANA13263373.470336.890
2025-26 so far——————————
Career—1457146194133.0574191.901

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

2-6-3 in 13 games, .8899 with a 3.47 average on 336 shots, split between Anaheim and the American League.

The third consecutive season in which his save percentage has fallen. He was a genuine starter in 2021-22 and has not been near that level since.

The Physical Game

6-3 and 205, and he plays a large, positional game — deep in the crease, relying on size and squareness rather than on quickness.

The lateral movement is the problem and it has got worse. A puck moved across the slot finds him late, and the recovery to a second chance is slow, which is why his numbers collapse on clubs that concede a lot of them.

The Mental Game

A goaltender who has lost a starting job, been traded, been waived, and been sent to the minors inside three years. He has not visibly stopped working, which is the most that can be said.

Confidence in this position is not a soft factor; a goaltender who does not trust his first read gets to the second one late, and that is what these numbers look like.

The Intangibles

At 30, on the last useful stretch of a career that had one very good year in it.

He is the third goaltender on a club whose entire season depends on the first one, which is the correct place for him and not a place that requires him to be good.

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 a large, positional game — deep in the crease, relying on size and squareness rather than on quickness”

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

    “The lateral movement is the problem and it has got worse. A puck moved across the slot finds him late, and the recovery to a second chance is slow”