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Mathieu Garon

#32 · Goalie · Tampa Bay Lightning

Born Jan 9, 1978 in Chandler, Quebec, CAN · 6'1", 198 lb · Catches right · Drafted 44th overall in 1996 by MTL (round 2)

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Stanley Cup NHL Champion 2008-09

Compare with a similar player

The goalies closest to him in games played in 2012-13. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Jean-Sebastien Giguere COL · 18 GP, 0.908 Dan Ellis CAR · 19 GP, 0.906 Johan Hedberg NJD · 19 GP, 0.883 Justin Peters CAR · 19 GP, 0.891 Scott Clemmensen FLA · 19 GP, 0.874

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below.

Games played by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

2012-13 season totals

2012-13 analytics

Rating

The goals he saved for his team, compared with a spare-part goalie facing the same shots. A goalie's season is about one-third the goalie and two-thirds chance, so read one year lightly. He has played fewer than 20 games, too few to be ranked. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

Shots faced

Expected goals adds up how likely each shot he faced was to go in, judged by where it came from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. A goalie who lets in fewer than that has saved goals above expected. Only shots taken while he was in net count, and the league's goalies as a whole come out at zero. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones. What these numbers mean

Goals saved above expected, taken per 60 minutes, and save % are coloured by where they rank among the 54 goalies who played enough to be ranked: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile. The two goals against tiles are left plain, since they follow how much he played.

Each bar shows the share of goalies he is ahead of, among the 54 who played at least a quarter as much as the busiest this season.

The goals he was expected to let in and the goals he did, as the season went on. When the allowed line runs below the expected line, he is saving more than his shots were worth.

Where he was shot at

Every unblocked attempt he faced this season, with his net on the right. Darker red means more attempts from that spot, and each dot is a goal. "Show every shot" switches to a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. Click a goal for its details.

Game log