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Dan Ellis

#39 · Goalie · Florida Panthers

Born Jun 19, 1980 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CAN · 6'1", 195 lb · Catches left · Drafted 60th overall in 2000 by DAL (round 2)

Compare with a similar player

The goalies closest to him in games played in 2010-11. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Peter Budaj COL · 45 GP, 0.895 Nikolai Khabibulin EDM · 47 GP, 0.890 Michal Neuvirth WSH · 48 GP, 0.914 Jonas Hiller ANA · 49 GP, 0.924 Craig Anderson OTT · 51 GP, 0.913

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

0102030402003-04: 1 games103-042007-08: 44 games4407-082008-09: 35 games3508-092009-10: 31 games3109-102010-11: 44 games4410-112011-12: 10 games1011-122012-13: 19 games1912-132013-14: 20 games2013-142014-15: 8 games814-15

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

Season Team GP WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save % Cap hit
2003-04 DAL 1 1000 28 25 3 3.00 0.893
2007-08 NSH 44 231036 1147 1060 87 2.34 0.924 $500K
2008-09 NSH 35 111943 963 867 96 2.93 0.900 $1.75M
2009-10 NSH 31 151311 848 771 77 2.69 0.909 $1.75M
2010-11 TBL 31 13762 741 659 82 2.93 0.889 $1.5M
2010-11 ANA 13 8310 348 319 29 2.39 0.917
2011-12 ANA 10 1500 214 195 19 2.72 0.911 $1.5M
2012-13 CAR 19 6821 555 503 52 3.13 0.906 $800K
2013-14 DAL 14 5601 349 314 35 3.04 0.900 $900K
2013-14 FLA 6 0500 165 138 27 4.80 0.836
2014-15 FLA 8 4311 221 202 19 2.34 0.914 $900K
9 seasons Career 212 87791815 5579 5053 526 2.79 0.906

Playoffs

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

Season Team GP WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
2007-08 NSH 6 2400 240 225 15 2.52 0.938
2010-11 ANA 1 0100 24 20 4 5.86 0.833
2 seasons Playoffs 7 2500 264 245 19 2.87 0.928

2010-11 season totals

GP Starts WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
44 37 211072 1089 978 111 2.77 0.898

Contract

$1.5MCap hitends in 2012, then UFA
-$413KWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
-$1.9MValueworth minus cap hit; below zero is overpaid

His cap hit for the whole season, set against what he did in the regular season. Lower is better value. In a season still being played the cost per point starts high and falls as the games add up. He rated at or below a spare-part player, so there is no cost per goal to show. Value is coloured by where it ranks among the 29 ranked goalies whose contract is known. How value is worked out.

The contract

Who signed him to it, and when, are not on record. It runs through 2011-12, with 1 season left after this one, and he is then an unrestricted free agent.

Season Cap hit
2010-11 $1.5M
2011-12 $1.5M

Each season left on the contract. Only its cap hit and its end are known: how the pay is split by season, and any signing bonus, are not.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
2013-14 to 2014-15 $900K
2012-13 to 2012-13 $800K
2010-11 to 2011-12 $1.5M
2008-09 to 2009-10 $1.75M
2007-08 to 2007-08 $500K

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2010-11 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

2010-11 analytics

Regular season Playoffs

Rating

-8.1Goals above replacement47th of 53 goalies
-1.3Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-17.6Goals above averagehis goals saved above expected

Each number is coloured by where it ranks among the 53 ranked goalies: 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. Goals above average is coloured as it is under Shots faced below, where it is taken per 60 minutes.

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. 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.

-10-505102010-112011-122012-132013-142014-15Goals above replacementGoals above replacement, by season

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

-17.6Goals saved above expectedexpected goals minus goals against
93.4Expected goals againstfrom 1,553 unblocked attempts
111Goals againstwhile he was in net
0.898Save %0.914 expected from his shots

Goals saved above expected, taken per 60 minutes, and save % are coloured by where they rank among the 53 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.

Goals saved -0.44 above expected per 60 minutes15th
Shot difficulty 6.0% chance per attempt faced21stA higher bar means his team gives up more dangerous shots.

Each bar shows the share of goalies he is ahead of, among the 53 who played at least a quarter as much as the busiest this season.

050100Game 10Game 20Game 30Game 40Allowed 111Expected 93.4

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

Date Opponent Result Decision Shots against Saves Goals against Save % TOI
Apr 9, 2011 @ LAK W 3-1 W 44 43 1 0.977 60:00
Apr 8, 2011 vs LAK W 2-1 W 24 23 1 0.958 60:00
Apr 6, 2011 vs SJS W 6-2 15 14 1 0.933 29:21
Mar 24, 2011 @ NSH L 4-5 L 19 17 2 0.895 45:56
Mar 20, 2011 vs CGY W 5-4 (OT) W 41 37 4 0.902 62:37
Mar 13, 2011 vs PHX L 2-5 L 21 17 4 0.810 40:00
Mar 11, 2011 @ COL W 6-2 W 26 24 2 0.923 59:41
Mar 9, 2011 vs NYR W 5-2 W 32 30 2 0.938 60:00
Mar 6, 2011 vs VAN L 0-3 L 16 13 3 0.813 60:00
Mar 4, 2011 vs DAL W 4-3 (OT) W 26 23 3 0.885 64:37
Mar 2, 2011 vs DET W 2-1 (OT) W 29 28 1 0.966 62:50
Feb 27, 2011 vs COL W 3-2 W 24 22 2 0.917 59:42
Feb 25, 2011 vs MIN L 2-3 (OT) OTL 31 28 3 0.903 64:44
Feb 19, 2011 vs FLA L 2-3 (SO) OTL 26 24 2 0.923 65:00
Feb 6, 2011 vs STL W 4-3 (OT) W 32 29 3 0.906 64:39
Jan 21, 2011 @ FLA W 2-1 (SO) W 30 29 1 0.967 64:59
Jan 14, 2011 vs NJD L 2-5 16 15 1 0.938 44:06
Jan 9, 2011 @ NJD L 3-6 L 24 20 4 0.833 58:38
Jan 5, 2011 @ PIT L 1-8 18 15 3 0.833 32:43
Dec 28, 2010 vs BOS L 3-4 L 29 25 4 0.862 59:26
Dec 26, 2010 @ ATL W 3-2 (OT) W 28 26 2 0.929 61:08
Dec 23, 2010 @ NYR W 4-3 (SO) W 37 34 3 0.919 65:00
Dec 22, 2010 @ NYI L 1-2 (OT) OTL 28 26 2 0.929 63:22
Dec 20, 2010 vs CAR W 5-1 W 22 21 1 0.955 60:00
Dec 11, 2010 @ VAN W 5-4 (OT) W 27 23 4 0.852 60:30
Dec 10, 2010 @ EDM L 3-4 (SO) OTL 23 20 3 0.870 65:00
Dec 7, 2010 @ CGY L 2-4 L 19 15 4 0.789 58:17
Dec 4, 2010 vs COL W 6-5 W 24 19 5 0.792 59:59
Dec 2, 2010 @ BOS L 1-8 10 7 3 0.700 19:26
Nov 30, 2010 @ TOR W 4-3 (OT) W 25 22 3 0.880 60:11
Nov 27, 2010 vs FLA L 3-4 (SO) OTL 27 24 3 0.889 64:56
Nov 26, 2010 @ WSH L 0-6 11 9 2 0.818 31:04
Nov 18, 2010 @ PHI W 8-7 10 6 4 0.600 15:34
Nov 17, 2010 @ NYI W 4-2 W 36 34 2 0.944 60:00
Nov 14, 2010 vs MIN L 1-4 L 17 14 3 0.824 59:49
Nov 11, 2010 @ WSH L 3-6 L 25 20 5 0.800 58:28
Nov 9, 2010 vs TOR W 4-0 W, SO 28 28 0 1.000 59:56
Nov 3, 2010 @ ANA L 2-3 (OT) OTL 30 27 3 0.900 62:50
Oct 30, 2010 @ PHX W 3-0 W, SO 23 23 0 1.000 60:00
Oct 27, 2010 vs PIT W 5-3 W 24 24 0 1.000 47:43
Oct 24, 2010 vs NSH L 3-4 L 26 22 4 0.846 58:54
Oct 21, 2010 vs NYI L 2-3 (OT) OTL 25 22 3 0.880 61:56
Oct 16, 2010 @ FLA L 0-6 L 15 12 3 0.800 15:13
Oct 14, 2010 @ PHI W 3-2 W 26 24 2 0.923 59:55