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Ben Scrivens

#40 · Goalie · Montréal Canadiens

Born Sep 11, 1986 in Spruce Grove, Alberta, CAN · 6'2", 181 lb · Catches left

Compare with a similar player

The goalies closest to him in games played in 2014-15. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Corey Crawford CHI · 57 GP, 0.924 Semyon Varlamov COL · 57 GP, 0.921 Devan Dubnyk MIN · 58 GP, 0.929 Jonathan Bernier TOR · 58 GP, 0.912 Jaroslav Halak NYI · 59 GP, 0.914

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.

020402011-12: 12 games1211-122012-13: 20 games2012-132013-14: 40 games4013-142014-15: 57 games5714-152015-16: 15 games1515-16

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
2011-12 TOR 12 4520 359 324 35 3.13 0.903 $600K
2012-13 TOR 20 7902 542 496 46 2.69 0.915 $613K
2013-14 LAK 19 7543 464 432 32 1.97 0.931 $613K
2013-14 EDM 21 91101 741 679 62 3.01 0.916
2014-15 EDM 57 1526111 1542 1372 170 3.16 0.890 $2.3M
2015-16 MTL 15 5800 447 405 42 3.07 0.906 $2.3M
5 seasons Career 144 4764177 4095 3708 387 2.92 0.905

2014-15 season totals

GP Starts WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
57 53 1526111 1542 1372 170 3.16 0.890

Contract

$2.3MCap hitends in 2016, then UFA
-$4MWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
-$6.3MValueworth 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 48 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 2015-16, with 1 season left after this one, and he is then an unrestricted free agent.

Season Cap hit
2014-15 $2.3M
2015-16 $2.3M

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
2014-15 to 2015-16 $2.3M
2012-13 to 2013-14 $613K
2011-12 to 2011-12 $600K

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 2014-15 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.

2014-15 analytics

Rating

-20.9Goals above replacement50th of 50 goalies
-3.5Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-34.7Goals above averagehis goals saved above expected

Each number is coloured by where it ranks among the 50 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.

-30-20-1001020302011-122012-132013-142014-152015-16Goals 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

-34.7Goals saved above expectedexpected goals minus goals against
135.3Expected goals againstfrom 2,169 unblocked attempts
170Goals againstwhile he was in net
0.890Save %0.912 expected from his shots

Goals saved above expected, taken per 60 minutes, and save % are coloured by where they rank among the 49 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 -0.65 above expected per 60 minutes1st
Shot difficulty 6.2% chance per attempt faced63rdA higher bar means his team gives up more dangerous shots.

Each bar shows the share of goalies he is ahead of, among the 49 who played at least a quarter as much as the busiest this season.

050100150Game 10Game 20Game 30Game 40Game 50Allowed 170Expected 135.3

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 11, 2015 @ VAN L 5-6 (OT) OTL 23 17 6 0.739 62:29
Apr 4, 2015 vs CGY L 0-4 L 29 25 4 0.862 60:00
Apr 2, 2015 @ LAK L 2-8 L 21 16 5 0.762 40:00
Apr 1, 2015 @ ANA L 1-5 L 27 22 5 0.815 59:58
Mar 25, 2015 vs COL W 4-3 W 44 41 3 0.932 60:00
Mar 23, 2015 vs WPG L 1-4 L 24 20 4 0.833 60:00
Mar 21, 2015 vs PHI W 5-4 (OT) W 31 27 4 0.871 62:46
Mar 18, 2015 vs CBJ L 3-4 (SO) OTL 20 17 3 0.850 65:00
Mar 16, 2015 vs TOR W 4-1 W 29 28 1 0.966 59:56
Mar 13, 2015 @ CBJ L 4-5 (SO) OTL 31 27 4 0.871 64:41
Mar 12, 2015 @ PIT L 4-6 13 9 4 0.692 21:01
Mar 9, 2015 @ DET L 2-5 L 24 21 3 0.875 58:19
Mar 6, 2015 @ CHI L 1-2 (SO) OTL 39 38 1 0.974 65:00
Mar 3, 2015 vs LAK L 2-5 L 29 24 5 0.828 59:58
Feb 28, 2015 vs STL L 1-2 L 27 25 2 0.926 58:37
Feb 24, 2015 @ MIN W 2-1 W 34 33 1 0.971 60:00
Feb 21, 2015 vs ANA L 1-2 L 21 19 2 0.905 58:34
Feb 20, 2015 vs MIN L 0-4 L 29 25 4 0.862 59:56
Feb 18, 2015 vs BOS W 4-3 (SO) W 41 38 3 0.927 64:54
Feb 9, 2015 @ NJD W 2-1 W 14 13 1 0.929 60:00
Jan 31, 2015 @ CGY L 2-4 L 33 29 4 0.879 57:54
Jan 29, 2015 vs BUF W 3-2 W 20 18 2 0.900 60:00
Jan 15, 2015 @ TBL L 2-3 L 19 16 3 0.842 58:20
Jan 13, 2015 @ STL L 2-4 L 29 25 4 0.862 57:55
Jan 11, 2015 vs FLA L 2-4 L 27 23 4 0.852 58:52
Jan 9, 2015 vs CHI W 5-2 W 21 19 2 0.905 60:00
Jan 4, 2015 vs NYI W 5-2 W 33 31 2 0.939 59:58
Jan 2, 2015 @ COL L 1-2 (SO) OTL 28 27 1 0.964 65:00
Dec 31, 2014 @ CGY L 3-4 (OT) OTL 28 24 4 0.857 61:08
Dec 30, 2014 vs LAK W 3-2 (SO) W 39 37 2 0.949 65:00
Dec 27, 2014 @ CGY L 1-4 21 20 1 0.952 50:10
Dec 23, 2014 vs ARI L 1-5 L 3 1 2 0.333 05:00
Dec 21, 2014 vs DAL L 5-6 (SO) OTL 45 40 5 0.889 64:59
Dec 18, 2014 @ SJS L 3-4 L 30 26 4 0.867 58:36
Dec 16, 2014 @ ARI L 1-2 (OT) OTL 44 42 2 0.955 64:54
Dec 14, 2014 vs NYR L 0-2 L 21 20 1 0.952 58:32
Dec 12, 2014 vs ANA L 2-4 7 7 0 1.000 38:51
Dec 9, 2014 @ SJS L 2-5 L 24 19 5 0.792 60:00
Dec 7, 2014 vs SJS W 2-1 W 21 20 1 0.952 59:43
Dec 3, 2014 @ WPG L 2-3 (OT) OTL 26 23 3 0.885 60:17
Nov 28, 2014 @ STL L 3-4 (OT) OTL 41 37 4 0.902 64:20
Nov 22, 2014 vs CHI L 1-7 L 13 8 5 0.615 22:45
Nov 19, 2014 vs VAN L 4-5 L 31 26 5 0.839 58:11
Nov 16, 2014 vs ARI L 1-2 L 28 26 2 0.929 58:28
Nov 13, 2014 vs OTT L 3-4 (OT) OTL 30 26 4 0.867 62:39
Nov 11, 2014 @ NSH L 2-3 18 18 0 1.000 38:39
Nov 6, 2014 @ BOS L 2-5 L 31 27 4 0.871 58:30
Nov 1, 2014 vs VAN L 2-3 L 30 27 3 0.900 58:40
Oct 29, 2014 vs NSH L 1-4 L 35 31 4 0.886 59:51
Oct 27, 2014 vs MTL W 3-0 W, SO 29 29 0 1.000 60:00
Oct 24, 2014 vs CAR W 6-3 W 30 27 3 0.900 59:44
Oct 22, 2014 vs WSH W 3-2 W 34 32 2 0.941 60:00
Oct 20, 2014 vs TBL W 3-2 W 24 22 2 0.917 60:00
Oct 17, 2014 vs VAN L 0-2 L 29 28 1 0.966 58:15
Oct 15, 2014 @ ARI L 4-7 L 29 23 6 0.793 57:43
Oct 14, 2014 @ LAK L 1-6 15 12 3 0.800 44:26
Oct 9, 2014 vs CGY L 2-5 L 26 21 5 0.808 59:05