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Samuel Montembeault

Montréal Canadiens

Samuel Montembeault

MTLGoalieJersey number #35

2025-26 regular season

Games played
25
Save percentage
.872
Goals against average
3.43
Shutouts
0

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: −14.8 goals saved beyond the league average over 38 games and 1,507 unblocked attempts faced
  • 2022-23: +5.1 goals saved beyond the league average over 40 games and 1,881 unblocked attempts faced
  • 2023-24: +10.3 goals saved beyond the league average over 41 games and 1,895 unblocked attempts faced
  • 2024-25: +25.7 goals saved beyond the league average over 62 games and 2,584 unblocked attempts faced
  • 2025-26: −5.9 goals saved beyond the league average over 25 games and 967 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: .892 save percentage over 38 games, 1,943 minutes and 1,124 shots faced; league .907
  • 2022-23: .901 save percentage over 40 games, 2,334 minutes and 1,345 shots faced; league .904
  • 2023-24: .903 save percentage over 41 games, 2,429 minutes and 1,307 shots faced; league .903
  • 2024-25: .902 save percentage over 62 games, 3,534 minutes and 1,678 shots faced; league .900
  • 2025-26: .872 save percentage over 25 games, 1,418 minutes and 635 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
2025-26252363581.8723.430
2024-2562601,678166.9022.824
2023-2441401,307127.9033.140
2022-2340391,345133.9013.420
2021-2238301,124122.8923.771
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. Mar 6@ ANA33285.84965:00
Started. Feb 26vs NYI26224.84661:16
Started. Feb 4@ WPG37361.97360:00
Started. Jan 24@ BOS20164.80057:24
Started. Jan 22vs BUF16133.81358:33
Started. Jan 17@ OTT34295.85360:12
Started. Jan 13@ WSH42393.92963:59
Started. Jan 8vs FLA27252.92660:00
Started. Jan 4@ DAL27243.88963:40
Started. Dec 30@ FLA30282.93362:41

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
2025-2675.181−5.925967
2024-25191.7166+25.7622,584
2023-24137.3127+10.3411,895
2022-23138.1133+5.1401,881
2021-22106.2121−14.8381,507

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

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