Brian Elliott

Born Apr 9, 1985 in Newmarket, Ontario, CAN · 6'2", 221 lb · Catches left · Drafted 291st overall in 2003 by OTT (round 9)

Trophy case

William M. Jennings Trophy Goaltender(s) on Team with Fewest Goals Against 2011-12

Compare with a similar player

The goalies closest to him in games played in 2018-19. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Cory Schneider NJD · 26 GP, 0.903

Louis Domingue TBL · 26 GP, 0.908

Joonas Korpisalo CBJ · 27 GP, 0.897

Pheonix Copley WSH · 27 GP, 0.905

Aaron Dell SJS · 25 GP, 0.886

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.

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

Season	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	SO	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	GAA	Save %	Cap hit
2007-08	OTT	1	1	0	0	0	29	28	1	1.01	0.966
2008-09	OTT	31	16	8	3	1	786	709	77	2.77	0.902
2009-10	OTT	55	29	18	4	5	1424	1294	130	2.57	0.909	$850K
2010-11	OTT	43	13	19	8	3	1147	1025	122	3.19	0.894	$850K
2010-11	COL	12	2	8	1	0	404	360	44	3.83	0.891
2011-12	STL	38	23	10	4	9	972	914	58	1.56	0.940	$600K
2012-13	STL	24	14	8	1	3	526	477	49	2.28	0.907	$1.8M
2013-14	STL	31	18	6	2	4	681	628	53	1.96	0.922	$1.8M
2014-15	STL	46	26	14	3	5	1150	1054	96	2.26	0.917	$2.5M
2015-16	STL	42	23	8	6	4	1113	1035	78	2.07	0.930	$2.5M
2016-17	CGY	49	26	18	3	2	1338	1217	121	2.55	0.910	$2.5M
2017-18	PHI	43	23	11	7	1	1228	1116	112	2.66	0.909	$2.75M
2018-19	PHI	26	11	11	1	1	741	672	69	2.96	0.907	$2.75M
2019-20	PHI	31	16	7	4	2	796	716	80	2.87	0.899	$2M
2020-21	PHI	30	15	9	2	2	738	656	82	3.06	0.889
2021-22	TBL	19	11	4	3	1	489	446	43	2.43	0.912	$900K
2022-23	TBL	22	12	8	2	2	689	614	75	3.40	0.891
16 seasons	Career	543	279	167	54	45	14251	12961	1290	2.57	0.909

Playoffs

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

Season	Team	GP	W	L	SO	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	GAA	Save %
2009-10	OTT	4	1	2	0	95	81	14	4.14	0.853
2011-12	STL	8	3	4	0	187	169	18	2.38	0.904
2012-13	STL	6	2	4	0	149	137	12	1.90	0.919
2014-15	STL	1	0	0	0	7	6	1	2.29	0.857
2015-16	STL	18	9	9	1	546	503	43	2.44	0.921
2016-17	CGY	4	0	3	0	100	88	12	3.88	0.880
2017-18	PHI	4	1	3	0	97	83	14	4.74	0.856
2019-20	PHI	2	0	1	0	39	35	4	3.02	0.897
8 seasons	Playoffs	47	16	26	1	1220	1102	118	2.76	0.903

2018-19 season totals

GP	Starts	W	L	OTL	SO	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	GAA	Save %
26	23	11	11	1	1	741	672	69	2.96	0.907

Contract

$2.75MCap hitends in 2019, then UFA

$566KCap dollars per goal above replacement4.9 goals above replacement

$1.7MWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his

-$1.1MValueworth 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. Value is coloured by where it ranks among the 60 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 2018-19, so this is its last season, after which he is an unrestricted free agent.

Season	Cap hit
2018-19	$2.75M

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
			2021-22 to 2021-22			$900K
			2019-20 to 2019-20			$2M
			2017-18 to 2018-19			$2.75M
			2014-15 to 2016-17			$2.5M
			2012-13 to 2013-14			$1.8M
			2011-12 to 2011-12			$600K
			2009-10 to 2010-11			$850K

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 2018-19 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.

2018-19 analytics

Rating

+4.9Goals above replacement42nd of 60 goalies

+0.8Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six

-2.0Goals above averagehis goals saved above expected

Each number is coloured by where it ranks among the 60 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. Provisional: under 40 games it is more chance than player. 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

-2.0Goals saved above expectedexpected goals minus goals against

67.0Expected goals againstfrom 1,013 unblocked attempts

69Goals againstwhile he was in net

0.907Save %0.910 expected from his shots

Goals saved above expected, taken per 60 minutes, and save % are coloured by where they rank among the 60 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 -0.08 above expected per 60 minutes38th

Shot difficulty 6.6% chance per attempt faced57thA higher bar means his team gives up more dangerous shots.

Each bar shows the share of goalies he is ahead of, among the 60 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

Date	Opponent	Result	Decision	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	Save %	TOI
Apr 4, 2019	@ STL	L 3-7	L	5	1	4	0.200	06:58
Mar 24, 2019	@ WSH	L 1-3	L	30	27	3	0.900	58:06
Mar 15, 2019	@ TOR	L 6-7	L	51	44	7	0.863	58:02
Mar 11, 2019	vs OTT	W 3-2	W	22	20	2	0.909	60:00
Mar 9, 2019	@ NYI	W 5-2	W	27	25	2	0.926	59:59
Mar 6, 2019	vs WSH	L 3-5	L	19	15	4	0.789	24:18
Mar 3, 2019	@ NYI	W 4-1	W	30	29	1	0.967	60:00
Feb 28, 2019	@ CBJ	L 3-4 (OT)	OTL	40	36	4	0.900	64:27
Feb 26, 2019	vs BUF	W 5-2	W	36	34	2	0.944	60:00
Feb 23, 2019	vs PIT	W 4-3 (OT)	W	43	40	3	0.930	59:38
Feb 21, 2019	@ MTL	L 1-5		31	29	2	0.935	49:27
Feb 19, 2019	vs TBL	L 2-5		23	22	1	0.957	48:30
Nov 15, 2018	vs NJD	L 0-3	L	25	23	2	0.920	53:48
Nov 13, 2018	vs FLA	L 1-2	L	30	28	2	0.933	58:52
Nov 10, 2018	vs CHI	W 4-0	W, SO	33	33	0	1.000	60:00
Nov 8, 2018	vs ARI	W 5-4 (OT)	W	16	16	0	1.000	34:23
Nov 1, 2018	@ LAK	W 5-2	W	27	25	2	0.926	60:00
Oct 30, 2018	@ ANA	W 3-2	W	25	23	2	0.920	60:00
Oct 25, 2018	@ BOS	L 0-3	L	24	22	2	0.917	59:14
Oct 22, 2018	vs COL	L 1-4	L	32	29	3	0.906	59:14
Oct 20, 2018	vs NJD	W 5-2	W	21	19	2	0.905	59:38
Oct 16, 2018	vs FLA	W 6-5 (SO)		23	19	4	0.826	45:06
Oct 13, 2018	vs VGK	L 0-1	L	21	20	1	0.952	58:28
Oct 9, 2018	vs SJS	L 2-8	L	48	40	8	0.833	59:45
Oct 6, 2018	@ COL	L 2-5	L	34	30	4	0.882	59:29
Oct 4, 2018	@ VGK	W 5-2	W	25	23	2	0.920	59:21