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Alex Lyon

Buffalo Sabres

Alex Lyon

BUFGoalieJersey number #34

2025-26 regular season

Games played
36
Save percentage
.907
Goals against average
2.77
Shutouts
3

OddPuck ranks and projects skaters only. There is no goalie pool to rank him in, and a per-game rate times his club’s schedule would assume he plays every game, which no goalie does. This page is his record.

How he got here

Each regular season

Open play · regular season · goals

Goals saved against the league average

  • 2021-22: +2.9 goals saved beyond the league average over 2 games and 94 unblocked attempts faced
  • 2022-23: +4.3 goals saved beyond the league average over 15 games and 681 unblocked attempts faced
  • 2023-24: −2.2 goals saved beyond the league average over 44 games and 1,910 unblocked attempts faced
  • 2024-25: +0.3 goals saved beyond the league average over 30 games and 1,092 unblocked attempts faced
  • 2025-26: +9.6 goals saved beyond the league average over 36 games and 1,506 unblocked attempts faced
Goals saved against the league average: what a league-average goalie would have allowed on the unblocked attempts he faced in open play, minus the goals he allowed. The shot model’s expected goals are scaled so the league’s goalies together match the goals they allowed that season, so each season is measured against its own average. Above zero, he saved more than an average goalie would have. GP: games played; Att: unblocked attempts faced.

All shots · regular season

Save percentage

  • 2021-22: .908 save percentage over 2 games, 123 minutes and 65 shots faced; league .907
  • 2022-23: .914 save percentage over 15 games, 893 minutes and 488 shots faced; league .904
  • 2023-24: .904 save percentage over 44 games, 2,499 minutes and 1,325 shots faced; league .903
  • 2024-25: .896 save percentage over 30 games, 1,560 minutes and 705 shots faced; league .900
  • 2025-26: .907 save percentage over 36 games, 1,992 minutes and 979 shots faced; league .896
Save percentage, regular season. The axis does not start at zero. GP: games played; Min: minutes played; SA: shots faced.

Detail

The record

Regular season

Regular season, by season
Season
2025-26363497992.9072.773
2024-25302670573.8962.811
2023-2444431,325127.9043.052
2022-23151448843.9142.891
2021-2222656.9082.930
No win-loss record — the NHL credits a decision to whoever was in net, not to the starter
A decision goes to whichever goalie was in net when the winning goal was scored, which is a play-by-play fact rather than part of a box-score line — and 884 team-games here used more than one goalie, so crediting the starter would be wrong often enough to matter. Save percentage is total saves over total shots faced. A shutout is a game this goalie was the only one his team used and conceded nothing, which is the NHL’s own rule and needs no minimum-minutes cutoff.

Last 10 games

Last 10 games, newest first
DateOpp
Started. May 16@ MTL413.25010:14
Relieved. May 14vs MTL321.66713:39
Started. May 10@ MTL36315.86158:39
Started. May 8vs MTL27234.85258:13
Started. May 6vs MTL28262.92959:40
Started. May 1@ BOS26251.96259:42
Started. Apr 28vs BOS29272.93169:14
Started. Apr 26@ BOS24231.95860:00
Started. Apr 23@ BOS25241.96059:55
Relieved. Apr 21vs BOS7701.00014:10

marks a game he started.

Goaltending against the league average · open play, regular season

Goaltending by season: goals against, against a league-average goalie on the same attempts
Season
2025-26101.692+9.6361,506
2024-2573.373+0.3301,092
2023-24124.8127−2.2441,910
2022-2347.343+4.315681
2021-228.96+2.9294

Saved vs avg: what a league-average goalie would have allowed on the same attempts (Exp GA), minus the goals he allowed.

No goalie market is modelled, so no markets are shown.