Kevin Lankinen

Kevin Lankinen

G · Left catchesAge 316'2" · 198 lbHelsinki, Finland
cap hit$4.5M5-year extensionsigned Feb. 21, 2025contract ledger →

Wins by season

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

21: 17 pts172122: 8 pts823: 9 pts92324: 11 pts1125: 25 pts252526: 11 pts1119PROJ27: 1 pts (projected 19)27

Pool value

Projected full-season fantasy worth.

36/100
why 36?

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

  • proj wins19 × 4.5+85.5
  • proj shutouts2.1 × 3+6.3
  • SV% 0.890 vs .900-0.01 × 250-2.5
  • GAA 3.35 vs 2.70-0.65 × 50-32.5
  • total57 pool points  ·  an elite goalie season scores 16057 = 36/100

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
20-21CHI3737171453.0190.9%2
21-22CHI322981563.5089.1%0
22-23NSH19189812.7591.6%0
23-24NSH241711602.8290.8%1
24-25VAN51492515102.6290.2%4
25-26VAN4743112753.7087.5%0
26-27VAN981806.0380.8%0
60-start projVAN6060193853.3589.0%2.1

Data via the public NHL API · 2026 Pro Hockey Stats