Leevi Meriläinen

Leevi Meriläinen

G · Left catchesAge 246'3" · 186 lbOulu, Finland
cap hit$1.1M1-year extensionsigned July 2, 2026contract ledger →

Wins by season

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

23: 0 pts02325: 8 pts826: 8 pts82620PROJ27: 2 pts (projected 20)27

Pool value

Projected full-season fantasy worth.

41/100
why 41?

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

  • proj wins20 × 4.5+90
  • proj shutouts2.3 × 3+6.9
  • SV% 0.891 vs .900-0.009 × 250-2.3
  • GAA 3.27 vs 2.70-0.57 × 50-28.5
  • total66 pool points  ·  an elite goalie season scores 16066 = 41/100

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
22-23OTT220114.2387.8%0
24-25OTT12118311.9992.5%3
25-26OTT201981013.5186.0%0
26-27VAN14122813.4188.9%0
60-start projVAN6060203363.2789.1%2.3

Data via the public NHL API · 2026 Pro Hockey Stats