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

Mackenzie Blackwood NJD · 47 GP, 0.915 Semyon Varlamov NYI · 45 GP, 0.914 Braden Holtby WSH · 48 GP, 0.897 David Rittich CGY · 48 GP, 0.907 Ben Bishop DAL · 44 GP, 0.920

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

2019-20 season totals

GP Starts WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
46 41 152231 1353 1227 126 2.95 0.907

Contract

$3MCap hitends in 2021, then UFA
$154KCap dollars per goal above replacement19.4 goals above replacement
$5.8MWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
+$2.8MValueworth 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 2020-21, with 1 season left after this one, and he is then an unrestricted free agent.

Season Cap hit
2019-20 $3M
2020-21 $3M

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 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

Rating

+19.4Goals above replacement10th of 57 goalies
+3.2Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
+6.0Goals 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. 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

+6.0Goals saved above expectedexpected goals minus goals against
132.0Expected goals againstfrom 1,863 unblocked attempts
126Goals againstwhile he was in net
0.907Save %0.902 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 +0.14 above expected per 60 minutes63rd
Shot difficulty 7.1% chance per attempt faced83rdA 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.

050100Game 10Game 20Game 30Game 40Expected 132.0Allowed 126

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 10, 2020 vs CAR L 2-5 L 36 31 5 0.861 60:00
Mar 8, 2020 vs TBL W 5-4 (SO) W 37 33 4 0.892 64:19
Mar 6, 2020 vs CHI W 2-1 W 33 32 1 0.970 60:00
Mar 2, 2020 vs COL L 1-2 L 27 25 2 0.926 58:07
Feb 29, 2020 @ OTT L 3-4 (SO) OTL 39 36 3 0.923 64:57
Feb 27, 2020 vs MIN L 1-7 9 7 2 0.778 27:48
Feb 25, 2020 vs NJD L 1-4 L 31 27 4 0.871 59:24
Feb 23, 2020 vs CGY L 2-4 L 30 27 3 0.900 56:59
Feb 21, 2020 @ NYI L 1-4 L 39 36 3 0.923 57:54
Feb 18, 2020 vs MTL W 4-3 W 22 19 3 0.864 59:35
Feb 16, 2020 @ PIT L 1-5 19 18 1 0.947 32:05
Feb 15, 2020 @ BOS L 1-4 L 41 37 4 0.902 59:44
Feb 13, 2020 @ NJD L 1-4 L 26 22 4 0.846 59:33
Feb 11, 2020 @ BUF L 2-3 L 25 22 3 0.880 59:34
Feb 9, 2020 vs BOS W 3-1 W 40 39 1 0.975 60:00
Feb 6, 2020 @ BUF W 4-3 (SO) W 32 29 3 0.906 65:00
Feb 3, 2020 vs PHI L 0-3 L 30 28 2 0.933 58:41
Feb 1, 2020 vs NYR L 0-1 L 31 30 1 0.968 58:30
Jan 10, 2020 vs OTT W 3-2 (SO) W 31 29 2 0.935 65:00
Jan 7, 2020 vs MTL W 4-3 W 26 23 3 0.885 60:00
Jan 3, 2020 @ DAL L 1-4 L 26 23 3 0.885 59:24
Dec 31, 2019 vs SJS W 2-0 W, SO 34 34 0 1.000 60:00
Dec 29, 2019 @ TBL L 1-2 L 39 37 2 0.949 58:38
Dec 21, 2019 @ TOR L 1-4 3 3 0 1.000 06:52
Dec 17, 2019 vs CBJ L 3-5 L 38 34 4 0.895 58:43
Dec 14, 2019 @ MTL W 2-1 W 43 42 1 0.977 60:00
Dec 12, 2019 vs WPG W 5-2 W 28 26 2 0.929 60:00
Dec 7, 2019 vs PIT L 3-5 L 23 19 4 0.826 49:22
Dec 2, 2019 vs NYI L 1-4 L 25 21 4 0.840 60:00
Nov 30, 2019 vs WSH L 2-5 L 32 29 3 0.906 59:13
Nov 27, 2019 vs TOR L 0-6 40 37 3 0.925 50:12
Nov 23, 2019 @ NJD L 1-5 L 33 29 4 0.879 59:23
Nov 19, 2019 vs OTT L 3-4 L 33 29 4 0.879 57:54
Nov 14, 2019 @ LAK L 2-3 (OT) OTL 31 28 3 0.903 60:22
Nov 12, 2019 @ ANA W 4-3 (OT) W 27 24 3 0.889 60:29
Nov 10, 2019 vs VGK W 3-2 W 19 17 2 0.895 59:54
Nov 8, 2019 vs BOS W 4-2 W 28 26 2 0.929 60:00
Nov 4, 2019 vs NSH L 1-6 11 9 2 0.818 32:24
Nov 2, 2019 @ FLA L 0-4 L 41 37 4 0.902 59:28
Nov 1, 2019 @ CAR L 3-7 12 11 1 0.917 27:50
Oct 27, 2019 vs STL L 4-5 (OT) OTL 20 15 5 0.750 61:28
Oct 23, 2019 @ OTT L 2-5 L 37 33 4 0.892 59:08
Oct 18, 2019 @ EDM L 1-2 L 37 35 2 0.946 58:03
Oct 15, 2019 @ VAN L 1-5 L 32 27 5 0.844 60:00
Oct 10, 2019 @ MTL W 4-2 W 35 33 2 0.943 59:59
Oct 6, 2019 vs DAL W 4-3 W 22 19 3 0.864 60:00