~ New InGoal Magazine author Colin Hodd is a goalie coach and journalist based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He has a degree in journalism from St. Thomas University and has been covering a little bit of everything since 2011. He's been obsessed with goaltending ever since he saw Jose Theodore's backwards blocker save on Joe Thornton (if you know, you know). He still straps on the pads as much as possible, but hopes his students aren't watching.
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.
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