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

Anders Nilsson OTT · 20 GP, 0.908 Ryan Miller ANA · 23 GP, 0.907 Laurent Brossoit WPG · 19 GP, 0.895 Jake Allen STL · 24 GP, 0.927 Marcus Hogberg OTT · 24 GP, 0.904

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

2019-20 season totals

GP Starts WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
21 19 9730 546 486 60 3.17 0.890

Contract

$850KCap hitends in 2020, then RFA
$491KCap dollars per goal above replacement1.7 goals above replacement
$1.1MWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
+$283KValueworth 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 2019-20, so this is its last season, after which he is a restricted free agent.

Season Cap hit
2019-20 $850K

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 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

+1.7Goals above replacement48th of 57 goalies
+0.3Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-4.0Goals 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. 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

-4.0Goals saved above expectedexpected goals minus goals against
56.0Expected goals againstfrom 753 unblocked attempts
60Goals againstwhile he was in net
0.890Save %0.897 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 -0.21 above expected per 60 minutes17th
Shot difficulty 7.4% chance per attempt faced98thA 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.

0204060Game 10Game 20Allowed 60Expected 56.0

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 3, 2020 vs ANA W 6-2 0 0 0 0.000 01:10
Feb 23, 2020 @ ANA W 6-5 (OT) W 30 25 5 0.833 63:47
Feb 13, 2020 vs STL W 6-5 (OT) W 24 19 5 0.792 62:23
Feb 11, 2020 @ MIN L 0-4 5 5 0 1.000 20:00
Jan 31, 2020 @ CAR W 4-3 W 25 22 3 0.880 59:54
Jan 9, 2020 vs LAK L 2-5 L 23 18 5 0.783 57:21
Dec 27, 2019 @ ANA L 3-4 L 18 14 4 0.778 58:39
Dec 22, 2019 @ SJS W 3-1 W 38 37 1 0.974 60:00
Dec 13, 2019 @ DAL W 3-2 (OT) W 30 28 2 0.933 60:51
Dec 8, 2019 vs NYR L 0-5 L 25 20 5 0.800 59:49
Dec 5, 2019 @ NYI L 2-3 (OT) OTL 31 28 3 0.903 63:16
Dec 3, 2019 @ NJD W 4-3 W 35 32 3 0.914 60:00
Dec 2, 2019 @ NYR W 4-1 W 30 29 1 0.967 60:00
Nov 29, 2019 vs ARI W 2-1 (SO) W 36 35 1 0.972 65:00
Nov 27, 2019 @ NSH W 4-3 (OT) W 34 31 3 0.912 60:43
Nov 25, 2019 @ DAL L 2-4 L 28 24 4 0.857 57:57
Nov 16, 2019 @ LAK L 3-4 L 25 21 4 0.840 58:03
Nov 10, 2019 @ DET L 2-3 L 19 16 3 0.842 59:34
Nov 7, 2019 @ TOR L 1-2 (OT) OTL 37 35 2 0.946 62:26
Nov 2, 2019 vs WPG L 3-4 (OT) OTL 39 35 4 0.897 63:22
Oct 10, 2019 @ ARI L 1-4 L 14 12 2 0.857 20:00