Connor Ingram

Connor Ingram did not start playing goal until he was 12 years old. Two years later, he was cut from his Bantam AA team. By 15, he was playing Midget AA. At 16, he landed a spot on a team in Prince Albert. At 17, he reached the WHL without being drafted into it. At 18, he had a strong enough season to be selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the third round, 88th overall, at the 2016 NHL Entry Draft. The Saskatoon, Saskatchewan native has since played 134 NHL regular-season games — a threshold reached by fewer than three percent of drafted goaltenders, according to InGoal ^[1].

Ingram's path to an NHL roster took several years after the draft. His first NHL action came with the Nashville Predators in 2021-22, when he appeared in three games, going 1-2 with a 3.71 goals-against average and a .879 save percentage. The following summer, he was claimed on waivers by the Arizona Coyotes, a move that opened the door to his most sustained NHL work to that point.

In 2022-23, Ingram appeared in 27 games for Arizona, posting a 6-13 record with a 3.37 goals-against average and a .907 save percentage, along with one shutout. The Coyotes returned him for a full season in 2023-24, and Ingram logged a career-high 50 games, going 23-21 with a 2.91 goals-against average, a .907 save percentage, and six shutouts — the most he has recorded in a single season. When the Coyotes franchise relocated and became the Utah Hockey Club for 2024-25, Ingram went with the new organization, appearing in 22 games and posting a 9-8 record with a 3.27 goals-against average and a .882 save percentage.

He then moved to the Edmonton Oilers. In the current 2025-26 season, Ingram has appeared in 32 games for Edmonton, going 16-10-3 with a 2.60 goals-against average, a .899 save percentage, and two shutouts. Across his 134 NHL regular-season games, he carries career totals of 55 wins, 54 losses, 18 overtime losses, a 3.01 goals-against average, a .901 save percentage, and nine shutouts over 7,555:42 minutes of ice time.

InGoal Magazine has covered Connor Ingram in one podcast appearance and one InGoal article. On Episode 222 of the InGoal Radio Podcast, Ingram walked through the step-by-step arc of his unlikely path to professional hockey — including being cut at 14, his WHL route, and the draft ^[2]. A 2026 article by Colin Hodd drew on that conversation to examine what Ingram's journey reveals about confidence, learning curves, and what it actually takes to reach and stay in the NHL ^[1].

In his own words from that podcast appearance, Ingram described the mental framework that shaped his game from a young age: "I think from the time I was young, I was never fast enough or big enough to get away with just pure athleticism, so I had to learn to read the game and think it before I played it." ^[2] He also spoke about what it takes to build genuine confidence at each new level — a topic Hodd explores in full at InGoal ^[1].