Cam Talbot

Cam Talbot

G · Left catchesAge 396'3" · 205 lbCaledonia, Canada
cap hit$0.95M1-year signingsigned Sept. 14, 2026contract ledger →

Wins by season

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

19: 11 pts111920: 17 pts1721: 22 pts222122: 32 pts3223: 17 pts172324: 28 pts2825: 21 pts212526: 12 pts1233PROJ27: 5 pts (projected 33)27

Pool value

Projected full-season fantasy worth.

82/100
why 82?

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

  • proj wins33 × 4.5+148.5
  • proj shutouts2.5 × 3+7.5
  • SV% 0.896 vs .900-0.004 × 250-1
  • GAA 3.18 vs 2.70-0.48 × 50-24
  • total131 pool points  ·  an elite goalie season scores 160131 = 82/100

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
17-18EDM6767313133.0290.8%1
18-19EDM,PHI3532111733.4089.2%1
19-20CGY3632171412.5792.1%4
20-21MIN4040221252.6091.6%4
21-22MIN5049321342.7991.0%3
22-23OTT3632171422.9389.8%1
23-24LAK5755282262.6691.0%3
24-25DET4743211952.9390.1%2
25-26DET342512963.1988.3%0
26-27CBJ985302.5190.9%0
60-start projCBJ6060332443.1889.6%2.5

Data via the public NHL API · 2026 Pro Hockey Stats