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Brian Elliott

#1 · Goalie · Tampa Bay Lightning

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

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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 2019-20. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Carter Hutton BUF · 31 GP, 0.898 Jaroslav Halak BOS · 31 GP, 0.919 Thomas Greiss NYI · 31 GP, 0.913 Elvis Merzlikins CBJ · 32 GP, 0.923 Anton Khudobin DAL · 30 GP, 0.930

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.

020402007-08: 1 games107-082008-09: 31 games312009-10: 55 games5509-102010-11: 55 games552011-12: 38 games3811-122012-13: 24 games242013-14: 31 games3113-142014-15: 46 games462015-16: 42 games4215-162016-17: 49 games492017-18: 43 games4317-182018-19: 26 games262019-20: 31 games3119-202020-21: 30 games302021-22: 19 games1921-222022-23: 22 games22

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
2007-08 OTT 1 1000 29 28 1 1.01 0.966
2008-09 OTT 31 16831 786 709 77 2.77 0.902
2009-10 OTT 55 291845 1424 1294 130 2.57 0.909 $850K
2010-11 OTT 43 131983 1147 1025 122 3.19 0.894 $850K
2010-11 COL 12 2810 404 360 44 3.83 0.891
2011-12 STL 38 231049 972 914 58 1.56 0.940 $600K
2012-13 STL 24 14813 526 477 49 2.28 0.907 $1.8M
2013-14 STL 31 18624 681 628 53 1.96 0.922 $1.8M
2014-15 STL 46 261435 1150 1054 96 2.26 0.917 $2.5M
2015-16 STL 42 23864 1113 1035 78 2.07 0.930 $2.5M
2016-17 CGY 49 261832 1338 1217 121 2.55 0.910 $2.5M
2017-18 PHI 43 231171 1228 1116 112 2.66 0.909 $2.75M
2018-19 PHI 26 111111 741 672 69 2.96 0.907 $2.75M
2019-20 PHI 31 16742 796 716 80 2.87 0.899 $2M
2020-21 PHI 30 15922 738 656 82 3.06 0.889
2021-22 TBL 19 11431 489 446 43 2.43 0.912 $900K
2022-23 TBL 22 12822 689 614 75 3.40 0.891
16 seasons Career 543 2791675445 14251 12961 1290 2.57 0.909

Playoffs

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

Season Team GP WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
2009-10 OTT 4 1200 95 81 14 4.14 0.853
2011-12 STL 8 3400 187 169 18 2.38 0.904
2012-13 STL 6 2400 149 137 12 1.90 0.919
2014-15 STL 1 0000 7 6 1 2.29 0.857
2015-16 STL 18 9901 546 503 43 2.44 0.921
2016-17 CGY 4 0300 100 88 12 3.88 0.880
2017-18 PHI 4 1300 97 83 14 4.74 0.856
2019-20 PHI 2 0100 39 35 4 3.02 0.897
8 seasons Playoffs 47 162601 1220 1102 118 2.76 0.903

2019-20 season totals

GP Starts WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
31 27 16742 796 716 80 2.87 0.899

Contract

$2MCap hitends in 2020, then UFA
$579KCap dollars per goal above replacement3.5 goals above replacement
$1.6MWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
-$412KValueworth 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 57 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 2019-20, so this is its last season, after which he is an unrestricted free agent.

Season Cap hit
2019-20 $2M

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 2019-20 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.

2019-20 analytics

Regular season Playoffs

Rating

+3.5Goals above replacement46th of 57 goalies
+0.6Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-4.3Goals above averagehis goals saved above expected

Each number is coloured by where it ranks among the 57 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.

-20-100102030402010-112012-132014-152016-172018-192020-212022-23Goals 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

-4.3Goals saved above expectedexpected goals minus goals against
75.7Expected goals againstfrom 1,069 unblocked attempts
80Goals againstwhile he was in net
0.899Save %0.905 expected from his shots

Goals saved above expected, taken per 60 minutes, and save % are coloured by where they rank among the 59 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 -0.15 above expected per 60 minutes24th
Shot difficulty 7.1% chance per attempt faced85thA higher bar means his team gives up more dangerous shots.

Each bar shows the share of goalies he is ahead of, among the 59 who played at least a quarter as much as the busiest this season.

020406080Game 10Game 20Game 30Allowed 80Expected 75.7

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
Mar 4, 2020 @ WSH W 5-2 W 27 25 2 0.926 60:00
Feb 20, 2020 @ CBJ W 4-3 (OT) W 31 28 3 0.903 63:51
Feb 11, 2020 @ NYI L 3-5 L 24 20 4 0.833 58:47
Feb 8, 2020 @ WSH W 7-2 W 27 25 2 0.926 60:00
Feb 6, 2020 vs NJD L 0-5 L 17 13 4 0.765 44:01
Feb 3, 2020 @ DET W 3-0 W, SO 16 16 0 1.000 59:52
Jan 31, 2020 @ PIT L 3-4 (OT) OTL 20 16 4 0.800 60:55
Jan 21, 2020 vs PIT W 3-0 W, SO 19 19 0 1.000 59:34
Jan 18, 2020 vs LAK W 4-1 W 35 34 1 0.971 59:58
Jan 15, 2020 @ STL W 4-3 (OT) W 33 30 3 0.909 63:33
Jan 7, 2020 @ CAR L 4-5 (OT) OTL 33 28 5 0.848 61:56
Jan 4, 2020 @ ARI L 2-6 9 7 2 0.778 42:35
Dec 31, 2019 @ LAK L 3-5 L 15 11 4 0.733 20:00
Dec 29, 2019 @ ANA W 2-1 (OT) W 28 27 1 0.964 63:53
Dec 21, 2019 @ OTT W 5-4 (SO) W 34 30 4 0.882 65:00
Dec 15, 2019 @ WPG L 3-7 L 17 11 6 0.647 40:00
Dec 5, 2019 vs ARI L 1-3 L 17 15 2 0.882 57:53
Nov 30, 2019 @ MTL W 4-3 (OT) W 42 39 3 0.929 60:31
Nov 27, 2019 @ CBJ W 3-2 W 30 28 2 0.933 60:00
Nov 21, 2019 @ CAR W 5-3 W 36 33 3 0.917 59:52
Nov 19, 2019 @ FLA L 2-5 7 7 0 1.000 28:23
Nov 16, 2019 vs NYI L 3-4 (SO) OTL 36 33 3 0.917 65:00
Nov 9, 2019 @ TOR W 3-2 (SO) W 40 38 2 0.950 65:00
Nov 2, 2019 vs TOR L 3-4 (SO) OTL 26 23 3 0.885 64:23
Oct 29, 2019 @ PIT L 1-7 L 28 22 6 0.786 40:00
Oct 27, 2019 @ NYI L 3-5 19 19 0 1.000 28:27
Oct 26, 2019 vs CBJ W 7-4 W 26 22 4 0.846 59:50
Oct 24, 2019 @ CHI W 4-1 W 24 23 1 0.958 60:00
Oct 21, 2019 vs VGK W 6-2 W 35 33 2 0.943 59:51
Oct 16, 2019 @ EDM L 3-6 8 6 2 0.750 23:03
Oct 15, 2019 @ CGY L 1-3 L 37 35 2 0.946 57:46