Hockey Terminal
Be a GM

← All players

Photo of Michal Neuvirth

Michal Neuvirth

#30 · Goalie · Philadelphia Flyers

Born Mar 23, 1988 in Ústí nad Labem, CZE · 6'1", 209 lb · Catches left · Drafted 34th overall in 2006 by WSH (round 2)

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.

Scott Darling CAR · 8 GP, 0.884 Michael Hutchinson TOR · 9 GP, 0.887 Thatcher Demko VAN · 9 GP, 0.913 Kevin Boyle ANA · 5 GP, 0.928 Marcus Hogberg OTT · 4 GP, 0.884

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.

0102030402008-09: 5 games508-092009-10: 17 games1709-102010-11: 48 games4810-112011-12: 38 games3811-122012-13: 13 games1312-132013-14: 15 games1513-142014-15: 32 games3214-152015-16: 32 games3215-162016-17: 28 games2816-172017-18: 21 games2117-182018-19: 7 games718-19

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

Season Team GP Shots against Saves Goals against Save % Cap hit
2008-09 WSH 5 102 91 11 0.892
2009-10 WSH 17 464 424 40 0.914
2010-11 WSH 48 1283 1173 110 0.914
2011-12 WSH 38 976 881 95 0.903 $1.15M
2012-13 WSH 13 367 334 33 0.910 $1.15M
2013-14 WSH 13 419 383 36 0.914 $2.5M
2013-14 BUF 2 98 93 5 0.949
2014-15 BUF 27 941 864 77 0.918 $2.5M
2014-15 NYI 5 126 111 15 0.881
2015-16 PHI 32 908 839 69 0.924 $1.625M
2016-17 PHI 28 586 522 64 0.891 $1.625M
2017-18 PHI 21 530 485 45 0.915 $2.5M
2018-19 PHI 7 184 158 26 0.859 $2.5M
11 seasons Career 256 6984 6358 626 0.910

Playoffs

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

Season Team GP Shots against Saves Goals against Save %
2010-11 WSH 9 261 238 23 0.912
2014-15 NYI 1 6 6 0 1.000
2015-16 PHI 3 105 103 2 0.981
2017-18 PHI 3 72 61 11 0.847
4 seasons Playoffs 16 444 408 36 0.919

2018-19 season totals

GP Shots against Saves Goals against Save % Goals against per game
7 184 158 26 0.859 3.71

Contract

$2.5MCap hitends in 2019, then UFA

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.

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 $2.5M

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
2017-18 to 2018-19 $2.5M
2015-16 to 2016-17 $1.625M
2013-14 to 2014-15 $2.5M
2011-12 to 2012-13 $1.15M

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

-7.2Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
-1.2Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-8.9Goals above averagehis goals saved above expected

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. He has played fewer than 20 games, too few to be ranked. 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.

-10010202010-112012-132014-152016-172018-19Goals 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

-8.9Goals saved above expectedexpected goals minus goals against
17.1Expected goals againstfrom 244 unblocked attempts
26Goals againstwhile he was in net
0.859Save %0.907 expected from his shots
Goals saved -1.46 above expected per 60 minutes1st
Shot difficulty 7.0% chance per attempt faced90thA 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.

01020Allowed 26Expected 17.1

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 Shots against Saves Goals against Save % TOI
Jan 3, 2019 vs CAR L 3-5 28 23 5 0.821 57:25
Jan 1, 2019 @ NSH L 0-4 30 26 4 0.867 59:23
Dec 31, 2018 @ CAR L 1-3 23 23 0 1.000 36:15
Dec 27, 2018 @ TBL L 5-6 (OT) 37 31 6 0.838 60:18
Dec 23, 2018 @ NYR W 3-2 (SO) 34 32 2 0.941 64:46
Dec 9, 2018 @ WPG L 1-7 10 7 3 0.700 27:31
Oct 27, 2018 vs NYI L 1-6 22 16 6 0.727 60:00