Samuel Montembeault

Samuel Montembeault

G · Left catchesAge 306'3" · 218 lbBecancour, Canada
cap hit$3.15M3-year extensionsigned Dec. 1, 2023contract ledger →

Wins by season

Career NHL wins, ending with the projection at a 60-start workload (violet).

19: 4 pts41920: 5 pts522: 8 pts82223: 16 pts1624: 16 pts162425: 31 pts3126PROJ26: 10 pts (projected 26)26

Pool value

Projected full-season fantasy worth.

54/100
why 54?

Every fantasy goalie category, scored on the season model's projections at a 60-start workload:

  • proj wins26 × 4.5+117
  • proj shutouts2 × 3+6
  • SV% 0.891 vs .900-0.009 × 250-2.3
  • GAA 3.39 vs 2.70-0.69 × 50-34.5
  • total86 pool points  ·  an elite goalie season scores 16086 = 54/100

Weights: a win is worth 4.5 (the heaviest goalie category in every format), a shutout 3, SV% pays 250 per full point above .900 and GAA pays 50 per hundredth below 2.70. 100 = a Vezina-tier season (~26 W, 6 SO, .918, 2.45). Projections shrink SV% toward career and league averages because save percentage repeats poorly year to year; wins lean on team quality for the same reason.

Season stats — goaltending

NHL regular-season goaltending numbers from the league's goalie feed — wins, GAA, save% and shutouts, season by season. Skater columns (G/A/P) would be all zeros for a goalie, so they're gone. The 60-start proj line is a model, not a pace: save% is projected with empirical-Bayes shrinkage toward career and league (save% is weakly repeatable — Schuckers 2016; a James–Stein study on NHL save% found shrinkage beats the raw estimate 2.2× in error), GAA is rebuilt from its SA/60 × (1−SV%) identity, shutouts are the Poisson zero probability at the projected goals-against rate (Buttrey & Washburn, JQAS 2011), and wins are regressed toward the league per-start rate because wins are mostly a team stat (Berri & Brook 2010). Backtested on 330 goalie seasons from our own data: 26% lower save% error and 16% lower GAA error than naive last-year pace. Hockey's honest truth: save% barely repeats, so this model shrinks hard on purpose.

SeasonTeamGPGSWLOTGAASV%SO
18-19FLA11104323.0489.4%0
19-20FLA1495513.3489.0%0
21-22MTL383081863.7789.1%1
22-23MTL4039161933.4290.1%0
23-24MTL4140161593.1490.3%0
24-25MTL6563312672.8290.2%4
25-26MTL252310843.4387.2%0
60-start projMTL60602623103.3989.1%2.0

Data via the public NHL API · 2026 Pro Hockey Stats