Pro Tips with Logan Thompson Focusing on Control, not Numbers Turned Career Around
” I always feel like I believed in myself that I could be a top goalie in every league that I played in. I don’t like to like look at my numbers. I’m obviously happy that we’re winning.”
That was Logan Thompson in in 2020-2021. He might not like to look at numbers, but at the time he was in the middle of posting an absurd 16-6-1 record with a 1.96 goals-against average and 0.943 save percentage in his debut season in the American Hockey League.
But it could have been an undrafted Logan Thompson at Brock University in 2018-2019, going 18-6-0 with a 0.934 save percentage, winning rookie and goalie of the year.
And it could absolutely have been Thompson in the NHL, where he’s gone 96-44-18 between the Vegas Golden Knights and Washington Capitals, including last season’s ridiculous 31-6-6 run and a top five goals-saved above expected (per Clear Sight Analytics) to start this year that has him a frontrunner to represent Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.
Still ahead in this article:
Thompson pinpoints the exact moment his obsession with getting drafted started working against him — and the word he says he had to rebuild his entire mindset around is in the next paragraph.
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