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Malcolm Subban

#32 · Goalie · Columbus Blue Jackets

Born Dec 21, 1993 in Toronto, Ontario, CAN · 6'2", 215 lb · Catches left · Drafted 24th overall in 2012 by BOS (round 1)

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.

Alex Stalock MIN · 21 GP, 0.899 Laurent Brossoit WPG · 21 GP, 0.925 Garret Sparks TOR · 20 GP, 0.902 Ryan Miller ANA · 20 GP, 0.912 Mackenzie Blackwood NJD · 23 GP, 0.918

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.

051015202014-15: 1 games114-152016-17: 1 games116-172017-18: 22 games2217-182018-19: 21 games2118-192019-20: 21 games2119-202020-21: 16 games1620-212021-22: 4 games421-222023-24: 1 games123-24

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
2014-15 BOS 1 0100 6 3 3 5.76 0.500
2016-17 BOS 1 0100 16 13 3 5.88 0.813
2017-18 VGK 22 13420 614 559 55 2.68 0.910 $650K
2018-19 VGK 21 81021 612 552 60 2.93 0.902 $650K
2019-20 VGK 20 9730 546 486 60 3.18 0.890 $850K
2019-20 CHI 1 0000 0 0 0 0.00 0.000
2020-21 CHI 16 6812 471 424 47 3.20 0.900 $850K
2021-22 BUF 4 0210 132 115 17 4.85 0.871 $850K
2023-24 CBJ 1 0100 35 32 3 3.00 0.914
8 seasons Career 87 363493 2432 2184 248 3.10 0.898

2018-19 season totals

GP Starts WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
21 20 81021 612 552 60 2.93 0.902

Contract

$650KCap hitends in 2019, then RFA
-$34KWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
-$684KValueworth 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 60 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 2018-19, so this is its last season, after which he is a restricted free agent.

Season Cap hit
2018-19 $650K

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
2020-21 to 2021-22 $850K
2019-20 to 2019-20 $850K
2017-18 to 2018-19 $650K

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

-3.3Goals above replacement57th of 60 goalies
-0.6Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-8.6Goals above averagehis goals saved above expected

Each number is coloured by where it ranks among the 60 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.

-505102014-152016-172017-182018-192019-202020-212021-222023-24Goals 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

-8.6Goals saved above expectedexpected goals minus goals against
51.4Expected goals againstfrom 806 unblocked attempts
60Goals againstwhile he was in net
0.902Save %0.916 expected from his shots

Goals saved above expected, taken per 60 minutes, and save % are coloured by where they rank among the 60 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 -0.42 above expected per 60 minutes5th
Shot difficulty 6.4% chance per attempt faced28thA 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.

0204060Game 10Game 20Allowed 60Expected 51.4

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 1, 2019 vs EDM W 3-1 W 19 18 1 0.947 60:00
Mar 30, 2019 @ SJS L 3-4 (OT) OTL 34 30 4 0.882 60:22
Mar 29, 2019 vs MIN L 2-3 L 32 29 3 0.906 57:57
Mar 27, 2019 @ COL L 3-4 L 30 26 4 0.867 58:48
Mar 25, 2019 @ STL L 1-3 L 22 19 3 0.864 58:47
Mar 23, 2019 vs DET L 2-3 (OT) OTL 30 27 3 0.900 60:19
Mar 21, 2019 vs WPG W 5-0 W, SO 20 20 0 1.000 60:00
Mar 18, 2019 @ SJS W 7-3 W 39 36 3 0.923 60:00
Mar 17, 2019 vs EDM W 6-3 W 19 16 3 0.842 59:56
Mar 10, 2019 @ CGY L 3-6 L 34 29 5 0.853 59:19
Feb 28, 2019 vs FLA W 6-5 (SO) W 37 32 5 0.865 64:53
Feb 18, 2019 @ COL L 0-3 L 38 35 3 0.921 59:47
Feb 16, 2019 vs NSH W 5-1 W 30 29 1 0.967 59:14
Jan 6, 2019 vs NJD W 3-2 W 38 36 2 0.947 60:00
Dec 29, 2018 @ LAK W 4-1 W 31 30 1 0.968 60:00
Dec 17, 2018 @ CBJ L 0-1 L 31 30 1 0.968 59:00
Nov 19, 2018 @ CGY L 2-7 L 32 25 7 0.781 60:00
Nov 11, 2018 @ BOS L 1-4 L 37 33 4 0.892 60:00
Oct 30, 2018 @ NSH L 1-4 L 28 25 3 0.893 59:43
Oct 11, 2018 @ PIT L 2-4 L 22 18 4 0.818 58:53
Oct 4, 2018 vs PHI L 2-5 9 9 0 1.000 29:49