What this report is built on
- Lindgren’s sample grew 2.5× on 2026-08-25 — fifteen tagged games to Thompson’s twelve. One goal now moves his overall save % by about .003. Where the bigger sample moved a number, his slides say so rather than smoothing it over.
- No single game carries his rates any more — 04.05 vs NYR (8 GA on 30 shots) held 38% of his goals in the six-game sample; at fifteen games it holds 16%, and excluding it he is .884 overall.
- Seven double-tagged rows are excluded from every Lindgren number — two of his games arrived tagged twice at the source (two video uploads of the same periods); the duplicates, including one double-counted goal, were removed before anything on these slides was computed.
- Baseline (“NHL pool”) = the other NHL goalies we track — 2,005 shots, includes backups — not a league average. Thompson’s rows always exclude his own shots from the pool.
- The pool contains a 180-shot Thompson sample from GEM’s own earlier tagging (~9% of it), so Lindgren’s baselines are not fully independent of his tandem partner. It never mixes into either goalie’s own numbers on these slides.
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Workload and quality faced
- Lindgren carried the heavier per-game load — 26.2 shots per game to Thompson’s 20.7, across fifteen games to Thompson’s twelve, at an identical 30% high-danger share.
- On high-danger itself both sat under the pool: Thompson .693 and Lindgren .672 against roughly .75 for the goalies we track — the tandem’s gap to the pool lives almost entirely in the high-danger tier.
- Fifteen games is a real profile for Lindgren — the six-game caveat this deck first shipped with is retired.
Traffic and the perimeter didn’t beat him
- Sees it, stops it: .913 through screens (46 shots, pool .853) and .900 on deflections — obstructed sightlines are not his problem.
- Strong off the pass: .885 on one-timers (46/52) against a pool .850, and .955 from the dot lane.
- Goal quality is not the story: 3 of 26 goals carry a should’ve-had qualifier (11.5%, pool 14.3%). 41% of his saves left a rebound, 27 of those attacked.
Deflections and screens rest on 20 and 46 shots — comfortable margins on modest populations. Every row on this page excludes his own shots from the pool.
Focus areas
The lead row was checked for game concentration: no single game carries more than one of the eight forced-lateral goals’ weight — without his worst game (03.31 PHI) the area is still .632. His worst game holds 4 of 26 goals on 8% of his shots, so no rate on this page leans on one night.
- The theme is lateral: 8 of 26 goals on forced lateral movement, and Around leads his beaten chart (6 goals) — when he is beaten, the puck moves him and goes around, not through.
- 17 of 26 goals come from the slot; outside the interior he is at or above the pool nearly everywhere.
- In-tight chaos is small but brutal: 4 goals on 5 such chances.
Development keys
Clip counts are the shots each area’s filter selects for Thompson: 20 · 39 · 36, 84 clips in the deduped union of the three (95 before dedupe). All three areas are proposed from filter analysis and await clip review — the player marks each with its open question.
Forced movement and pace stayed his side of the net
- The inverse of his partner’s profile: .780 in forced lateral movement (32/41, pool .738) and .933 off the rush (111/119) — the exposure that leads Thompson’s focus list is Lindgren’s best delta, and speed does not beat him.
- The kill regressed to the pool: .841 on 69 PK shots against a pool .850 — the six-game .906 was the small sample talking, not a strength.
- Second chances stayed clean: 36% of saves left a rebound, under the pool’s 40%, with 28 attacked.
Fifteen games, 41–207 decided shots per row. Two six-game strengths — the kill (.906) and the dot lane (.938) — settled back to the pool as the sample grew; forced lateral movement, quick release and the rush held above it. The pool for these rows includes an earlier-tagged Thompson sample (~9%); see slide one.
Focus areas
Game concentration was re-checked on every row. 04.05 vs NYR (8 GA) now holds 16% of his goals; without it he is .884, and no row on this page leans on one night — upper glove is .774 without its worst game, and the zone-entry goals sit in four different games. One-timers are the row the sample changed most: .879 at six games, .779 at fifteen.
- The organizing theme is sightline and the seam: screens and deflections together are 20 GA on 86 shots (.767, pool .865), five more goals come from the blue line through bodies (.898 vs .970), and set-play one-timers run .779 on 77.
- Upper glove now carries half his goals (25 of 50) — the one exposure he and Thompson share, on an identical filter, and the rate held as the sample tripled.
- His should’ve-had share, 22.0% against the pool’s 13.9%, held as the sample grew from six games to fifteen — no longer small-sample noise. Flagged for coach review.
Development keys
Clip counts are the shots each area’s filter selects for Lindgren: 107 · 86 · 29 · 77, 229 clips in the deduped union of the four (299 before dedupe). All four areas are proposed from filter analysis and await clip review — the player marks each with its open question.