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Elvis Merzlikins

Columbus Blue Jackets

Elvis Merzlikins

CBJGoalieJersey number #90

2025-26 regular season

Games played
30
Save percentage
.883
Goals against average
3.40
Shutouts
1

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: +4.1 goals saved beyond the league average over 59 games and 2,584 unblocked attempts faced
  • 2022-23: −29.4 goals saved beyond the league average over 30 games and 1,251 unblocked attempts faced
  • 2023-24: −2.3 goals saved beyond the league average over 41 games and 1,794 unblocked attempts faced
  • 2024-25: −12.2 goals saved beyond the league average over 53 games and 2,331 unblocked attempts faced
  • 2025-26: −9.8 goals saved beyond the league average over 30 games and 1,246 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 59 games, 3,320 minutes and 1,920 shots faced; league .907
  • 2022-23: .876 save percentage over 30 games, 1,560 minutes and 889 shots faced; league .904
  • 2023-24: .897 save percentage over 41 games, 2,259 minutes and 1,266 shots faced; league .903
  • 2024-25: .892 save percentage over 53 games, 3,171 minutes and 1,557 shots faced; league .900
  • 2025-26: .883 save percentage over 30 games, 1,679 minutes and 812 shots faced; league .896
Save percentage, regular season. The axis does not start at zero. GP: games played; Min: minutes played; SA: shots faced.

From the last 7 days · newest first

News

  1. Transaction

    Blue Jackets trade Marchenko to Maple Leafs as part of major 7-player deal (external site)

    NBC Sports via Yahoo Sports ·

    In this story: Kirill Marchenko, Columbus Blue Jackets, Toronto Maple Leafs

    Also reported by: Associated Press via Yahoo Sports (external site)

All news about Elvis Merzlikins

Detail

The record

Regular season

Regular season, by season
Season
2025-26302981295.8833.401
2024-2553521,557168.8923.181
2023-2441401,266130.8973.451
2022-233027889110.8764.230
2021-2259561,920178.9083.222
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. Apr 2@ CAR21165.76259:53
Started. Mar 28vs SJS36333.91759:10
Started. Mar 21vs SEA17152.88260:00
Started. Mar 12@ FLA21192.90562:20
Started. Mar 10@ TBL18162.88959:29
Started. Mar 7vs UTA25205.80062:08
Relieved. Mar 3vs NSH2201.0008:16
Started. Mar 2@ NYR33294.87961:04
Started. Feb 26@ BOS22193.86458:32
Started. Feb 3@ NJD242401.00059:55

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
2025-2685.295−9.8301,246
2024-25155.8168−12.2532,331
2023-24127.7130−2.3411,794
2022-2380.6110−29.4301,251
2021-22182.1178+4.1592,584

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.