Philipp Grubauer

Born Nov 25, 1991 in Rosenheim, DEU (age 34) · 6'1", 188 lb · Catches left · Drafted 112th overall in 2010 by WSH (round 4)

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Stanley Cup NHL Champion 2017-18

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.

Joni Ortio CGY · 22 GP, 0.902

Keith Kinkaid NJD · 23 GP, 0.904

Darcy Kuemper MIN · 21 GP, 0.915

Robin Lehner BUF · 21 GP, 0.924

Andrei Vasilevskiy TBL · 24 GP, 0.910

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.

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

Season	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	SO	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	GAA	Save %	Cap hit
2012-13	WSH	2	0	1	0	0	59	54	5	3.57	0.915	$578K
2013-14	WSH	17	6	5	5	0	469	434	35	2.38	0.925	$578K
2014-15	WSH	1	1	0	0	0	25	23	2	1.85	0.920	$578K
2015-16	WSH	22	8	9	1	0	523	480	43	2.32	0.918	$750K
2016-17	WSH	24	13	6	2	3	585	542	43	2.04	0.926	$750K
2017-18	WSH	35	15	10	3	3	953	880	73	2.35	0.923	$1.5M
2018-19	COL	37	18	9	5	3	1071	982	89	2.64	0.917	$3.333M
2019-20	COL	36	18	12	4	2	1067	977	90	2.63	0.916	$3.333M
2020-21	COL	40	30	9	1	7	993	916	77	1.95	0.922	$3.333M
2021-22	SEA	55	18	31	5	2	1479	1315	164	3.16	0.889	$5.9M
2022-23	SEA	39	17	14	4	0	930	832	98	2.85	0.895	$5.9M
2023-24	SEA	36	14	16	2	2	941	846	95	2.85	0.899	$5.9M
2024-25	SEA	26	8	17	1	0	681	596	85	3.49	0.875	$5.9M
2025-26	SEA	32	13	12	4	0	866	787	79	2.65	0.909	$5.9M
2026-27	SEA	3	1	1	0	0	72	66	6	2.59	0.917	$5.9M
15 seasons	Career	405	180	152	37	22	10714	9730	984	2.65	0.908

Playoffs

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

Season	Team	GP	W	L	SO	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	GAA	Save %
2014-15	WSH	1	1	0	0	21	18	3	3.00	0.857
2016-17	WSH	1	0	0	0	9	7	2	6.46	0.778
2017-18	WSH	2	0	1	0	49	41	8	4.55	0.837
2018-19	COL	12	7	5	1	373	345	28	2.30	0.925
2019-20	COL	5	4	0	1	95	88	7	1.60	0.926
2020-21	COL	10	6	4	0	301	275	26	2.61	0.914
2022-23	SEA	14	7	7	0	422	381	41	2.99	0.903
7 seasons	Playoffs	45	25	17	2	1270	1155	115	2.65	0.909

2015-16 season totals

GP	Starts	W	L	OTL	SO	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	GAA	Save %
22	16	8	9	1	0	523	480	43	2.32	0.918

Contract

$750KCap hitends in 2017

$109KCap dollars per goal above replacement6.9 goals above replacement

$2.2MWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his

+$1.5MValueworth 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 58 ranked goalies whose contract is known. How value is worked out.

The contract

Signed by the Washington Capitals on Jun 15, 2015, as an extension of the contract he was on: 2 years and $1.5M, beginning in 2015-16. It runs through 2016-17, with 1 season left after this one.

Season	Cap hit	Base salary	Signing bonus	Performance bonuses	Paid in all	Clause
2015-16	$750K	$650K	$0		$650K
2016-17	$750K	$850K	$0		$850K

Each season of the contract, with this one marked. The cap hit is the same every year; what he is paid is not. The pay is as written when the contract was recorded in October 2024, so a later change, such as the rise in the lowest salary for 2026-27, is not shown.

Contracts he has signed

Signed	Signed by	Kind	Seasons	Years	In all	Cap hit
Jul 28, 2021	Seattle Kraken	New contract	2021-22 to 2026-27	6	$35.4M	$5.9M
Jun 23, 2018	Colorado Avalanche	Extension	2018-19 to 2020-21	3	$10M	$3.333M
Jul 6, 2017	Washington Capitals	New contract	2017-18 to 2017-18	1	$1.5M	$1.5M
Jun 15, 2015	Washington Capitals	Extension	2015-16 to 2016-17	2	$1.5M	$750K
Oct 4, 2010	Washington Capitals	Entry-level	2012-13 to 2014-15 signed for 2010-11, slid	3	$1.945M	$578K

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

+6.9Goals above replacement38th of 58 goalies

+1.1Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six

+2.3Goals 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.

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

+2.3Goals saved above expectedexpected goals minus goals against

45.3Expected goals againstfrom 756 unblocked attempts

43Goals againstwhile he was in net

0.918Save %0.913 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 +0.12 above expected per 60 minutes70th

Shot difficulty 6.0% chance per attempt faced33rdA 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.

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 10, 2016	vs ANA	L 0-2	L	21	19	2	0.905	58:09
Apr 2, 2016	@ ARI	L 0-3	L	27	24	3	0.889	60:00
Mar 26, 2016	vs STL	L 0-4	L	29	25	4	0.862	59:44
Mar 20, 2016	@ PIT	L 2-6		5	4	1	0.800	12:42
Mar 12, 2016	@ SJS	L 2-5	L	27	23	4	0.852	58:19
Mar 5, 2016	@ BOS	W 2-1 (OT)	W	34	33	1	0.971	62:29
Mar 2, 2016	vs TOR	W 3-2	W	29	27	2	0.931	60:00
Feb 24, 2016	vs MTL	L 3-4	L	16	15	1	0.938	36:30
Feb 16, 2016	vs LAK	W 3-1	W	40	39	1	0.975	60:00
Feb 13, 2016	@ DAL	L 3-4		10	10	0	1.000	18:15
Feb 2, 2016	vs FLA	L 2-5	L	18	14	4	0.778	59:05
Jan 17, 2016	vs NYR	W 5-2		11	11	0	1.000	22:18
Jan 16, 2016	@ BUF	L 1-4		13	12	1	0.923	32:46
Jan 10, 2016	vs OTT	W 7-1	W	33	32	1	0.970	60:00
Dec 31, 2015	@ CAR	L 2-4	L	36	33	3	0.917	59:09
Dec 21, 2015	@ CAR	W 2-1	W	32	31	1	0.969	60:00
Dec 18, 2015	vs TBL	W 5-3	W	7	7	0	1.000	30:56
Dec 10, 2015	@ FLA	L 1-4	L	25	22	3	0.880	56:55
Nov 19, 2015	vs DAL	L 2-3	L	31	28	3	0.903	58:41
Nov 13, 2015	vs CGY	L 2-3 (OT)	OTL	29	26	3	0.897	61:40
Oct 31, 2015	@ FLA	W 2-1 (OT)	W	27	26	1	0.963	63:44
Oct 23, 2015	@ EDM	W 7-4	W	23	19	4	0.826	59:40