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Jonathan Bernier

#45 · Goalie · New Jersey Devils

Born Aug 7, 1988 in Laval, Quebec, CAN · 6'0", 185 lb · Catches left · Drafted 11th overall in 2006 by LAK (round 1)

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Stanley Cup NHL Champion 2011-12

Compare with a similar player

The goalies closest to him in games played in 2015-16. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Louis Domingue ARI · 39 GP, 0.912 Jimmy Howard DET · 37 GP, 0.906 Karri Ramo CGY · 37 GP, 0.909 Sergei Bobrovsky CBJ · 37 GP, 0.908 James Reimer SJS · 40 GP, 0.922

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: 4 games407-082009-10: 3 games309-102010-11: 25 games2510-112011-12: 16 games1611-122012-13: 14 games1412-132013-14: 55 games5513-142014-15: 58 games5814-152015-16: 38 games3815-162016-17: 39 games3916-172017-18: 37 games3717-182018-19: 35 games3518-192019-20: 46 games4619-202020-21: 24 games2420-212021-22: 10 games1021-22

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 LAK 4 1300 118 102 16 4.03 0.864
2009-10 LAK 3 3001 94 90 4 1.30 0.957
2010-11 LAK 25 11833 652 595 57 2.48 0.913
2011-12 LAK 16 5621 383 348 35 2.36 0.909 $1.25M
2012-13 LAK 14 9311 306 282 24 1.87 0.922 $1.25M
2013-14 TOR 55 261971 1787 1649 138 2.69 0.923 $2.9M
2014-15 TOR 58 212872 1735 1583 152 2.87 0.912 $2.9M
2015-16 TOR 38 122133 1114 1011 103 2.88 0.908 $4.15M
2016-17 ANA 39 21742 982 899 83 2.50 0.915 $4.15M
2017-18 COL 37 191332 1092 997 95 2.85 0.913 $2.75M
2018-19 DET 35 91851 1025 927 98 3.16 0.904 $3M
2019-20 DET 46 152231 1353 1227 126 2.95 0.907 $3M
2020-21 DET 24 91110 757 692 65 2.99 0.914 $3M
2021-22 NJD 10 4410 264 238 26 3.06 0.902 $4.125M
14 seasons Career 404 1651634018 11662 10640 1022 2.77 0.912

Playoffs

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

Season Team GP WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
2012-13 LAK 1 0000 9 9 0 0.00 1.000
2016-17 ANA 4 1200 79 69 10 3.29 0.873
2017-18 COL 4 1300 120 106 14 3.87 0.883
3 seasons Playoffs 9 2500 208 184 24 3.35 0.885

2015-16 season totals

GP Starts WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
38 36 122133 1114 1011 103 2.88 0.908

Contract

$4.15MCap hitends in 2017, then UFA
$206KWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
-$3.9MValueworth 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 58 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 2016-17, with 1 season left after this one, and he is then an unrestricted free agent.

Season Cap hit
2015-16 $4.15M
2016-17 $4.15M

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 2022-23 $4.125M
2018-19 to 2020-21 $3M
2017-18 to 2017-18 $2.75M
2015-16 to 2016-17 $4.15M
2013-14 to 2014-15 $2.9M
2011-12 to 2012-13 $1.25M

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 2015-16 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.

2015-16 analytics

Rating

-1.5Goals above replacement51st of 58 goalies
-0.3Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-10.9Goals above averagehis goals saved above expected

Each number is coloured by where it ranks among the 58 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.

-1001020302010-112012-132014-152016-172018-192020-21Goals 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

-10.9Goals saved above expectedexpected goals minus goals against
92.1Expected goals againstfrom 1,565 unblocked attempts
103Goals againstwhile he was in net
0.908Save %0.917 expected from his shots

Goals saved above expected, taken per 60 minutes, and save % are coloured by where they rank among the 57 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 -0.31 above expected per 60 minutes12th
Shot difficulty 5.9% chance per attempt faced25thA higher bar means his team gives up more dangerous shots.

Each bar shows the share of goalies he is ahead of, among the 57 who played at least a quarter as much as the busiest this season.

050100Game 10Game 20Game 30Allowed 103Expected 92.1

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 7, 2016 @ PHI W 4-3 (OT) W 44 41 3 0.932 62:51
Apr 4, 2016 vs FLA L 3-4 L 36 32 4 0.889 58:30
Mar 29, 2016 @ FLA W 5-2 W 34 32 2 0.941 59:23
Mar 26, 2016 vs BOS L 1-3 L 32 30 2 0.938 57:20
Mar 21, 2016 vs CGY W 5-2 W 25 23 2 0.920 59:31
Mar 17, 2016 vs FLA L 1-4 L 30 28 2 0.933 57:25
Mar 15, 2016 vs TBL W 4-1 W 27 26 1 0.963 60:00
Mar 13, 2016 @ DET W 1-0 W, SO 38 38 0 1.000 60:00
Mar 5, 2016 vs OTT L 2-3 L 31 28 3 0.903 57:53
Mar 2, 2016 @ WSH L 2-3 L 23 20 3 0.870 57:53
Feb 27, 2016 @ MTL L 1-4 L 36 32 4 0.889 59:36
Feb 25, 2016 vs CAR W 3-1 W 31 30 1 0.968 59:33
Feb 20, 2016 vs PHI L 4-5 (OT) 13 10 3 0.769 20:57
Feb 18, 2016 vs NYR L 2-4 L 19 16 3 0.842 58:50
Feb 11, 2016 @ EDM L 2-5 L 34 30 4 0.882 58:25
Feb 6, 2016 @ OTT L 1-6 17 14 3 0.824 52:22
Jan 27, 2016 @ TBL L 0-1 L 29 28 1 0.966 58:08
Jan 16, 2016 @ BOS L 2-3 L 45 42 3 0.933 59:24
Jan 9, 2016 @ SJS L 0-7 L 31 24 7 0.774 59:25
Jan 6, 2016 @ ANA W 4-0 W, SO 39 39 0 1.000 60:00
Jan 2, 2016 vs STL W 4-1 W 40 39 1 0.975 60:00
Dec 30, 2015 @ PIT W 3-2 (SO) W 41 39 2 0.951 65:00
Dec 29, 2015 vs NYI L 3-6 L 15 9 6 0.600 39:45
Dec 27, 2015 @ NYI W 3-1 W 26 25 1 0.962 59:45
Dec 22, 2015 @ ARI L 2-3 L 26 23 3 0.885 57:52
Dec 21, 2015 @ COL W 7-4 W 28 24 4 0.857 60:00
Dec 19, 2015 vs LAK W 5-0 W, SO 26 26 0 1.000 60:00
Dec 17, 2015 vs SJS L 4-5 (OT) OTL 29 26 3 0.897 50:41
Dec 15, 2015 vs TBL L 4-5 (OT) OTL 27 22 5 0.815 62:01
Nov 28, 2015 vs WSH L 2-4 L 23 19 4 0.826 58:22
Nov 15, 2015 @ NYR L 3-4 L 30 26 4 0.867 58:58
Oct 31, 2015 vs PIT L 0-4 L 32 28 4 0.875 60:00
Oct 30, 2015 @ NYR L 1-3 L 25 23 2 0.920 58:49
Oct 24, 2015 @ MTL L 3-5 L 27 22 5 0.815 56:57
Oct 21, 2015 @ BUF L 1-2 (SO) OTL 35 34 1 0.971 65:00
Oct 17, 2015 @ PIT L 1-2 L 33 31 2 0.939 58:07
Oct 9, 2015 @ DET L 0-4 L 9 6 3 0.667 20:20
Oct 7, 2015 vs MTL L 1-3 L 28 26 2 0.929 57:43