Joey Daccord

Joey Daccord was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 19, 1996, and the city has remained a fixture in his story. Drafted in the seventh round — 199th overall — by the Ottawa Senators in 2015, he has since traveled a winding road from high school hockey in North Andover and three seasons at Cushing Academy, through the USHL with the Muskegon Lumberjacks, three seasons of college hockey at Arizona State, and eventually to a full-time starting role in the NHL with the Seattle Kraken.

After signing with Ottawa in 2019, Daccord made one NHL appearance that season — a loss with a 5.00 GAA and .875 save percentage — before spending time with the Belleville Senators in the AHL and the Brampton Beast in the ECHL. The shortened 2020-21 season gave him eight games with the Senators, producing a 1-3 record with a 3.27 GAA and .897 save percentage. Then came the 2021 NHL expansion draft, in which Seattle selected him for their inaugural roster.

Daccord's first two seasons with the Kraken were limited in scope. He appeared in five games in 2021-22, going 0-4 with a 4.30 GAA and .850 save percentage, and five games in 2022-23 with a 2-1 record and a 3.14 GAA. In between, his development continued in the AHL with Seattle's affiliate, the Coachella Valley Firebirds. In 2023, he led the Firebirds to the Calder Cup Finals, where they fell to the Hershey Bears in seven games.

The 2023-24 season marked Daccord's arrival as a full-time NHL starter. Over 50 games, he posted a 19-18 record with a 2.46 GAA and .916 save percentage — both top-10 figures among NHL goaltenders who appeared in at least 20 games — and recorded three shutouts. Among those milestones was the first shutout in Winter Classic history. He followed that with a career-high 57 games in 2024-25, going 27-23 with a 2.75 GAA, .906 save percentage, and two shutouts. That season he was voted Seattle Kraken MVP. In 2025, he was part of the United States team that won its first World Championship in 92 years, the last American victory in the event having come in 1933.

Through the 2024-25 season, Daccord's career NHL totals stand at 173 games played, 69 wins, 70 losses, 24 overtime losses, a 2.83 GAA, .904 save percentage, and 7 shutouts across more than 9,800 minutes of ice time. In the current 2025-26 season he has appeared in 47 games with a 20-20-6 record, a 3.03 GAA, .897 save percentage, and 2 shutouts.

The Daccord name carries particular weight in goaltending circles. His father, Brian Daccord, spent decades in the NHL as a goaltending coach — including time with the Boston Bruins — and served as a scout in Toronto and Director of Goaltending with the Arizona Coyotes. Brian has since been named Director of Goaltending Scouting and Development for the Detroit Red Wings, and is also the goalie development director for NHL Sense Arena and the founder of the Stop It Goaltending U app. InGoal has featured Brian in multiple podcast appearances over the years ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}, and the father-son relationship has become a recurring thread in the publication's coverage.

That relationship came to the fore in Episode 318 of the InGoal Radio Podcast, recorded on the back deck of the Daccord family home overlooking Boston, where Joey and Brian sat down together with host David Hutchison ^[5]. The conversation drew directly on their shared experience — father and son, not coach and goaltender — and Joey shared at least one story that Brian said had never been told publicly before. The accompanying Parent Segment distilled five tips for goalie parents drawn from that interview ^[6], and a follow-up Parent Segment the next week continued exploring the themes the Daccords raised ^[7].

On the technical side, a 2025 InGoal Pro Read broke down a specific 4-on-3 rush sequence against the Minnesota Wild — available to InGoal members — with Daccord walking through his depth positioning, his initial read on the puck carrier, how a backchecking forward changed his first push, and the angle-versus-depth decision that ultimately gave him a chance on the save ^[8]. Daccord first appeared in InGoal's Pro Reads format while with the Ottawa Senators in 2021, and returned for an in-person video session ahead of the 2024-25 season. A separate Pro Read featuring all three Seattle Kraken goaltenders explored how NHL goalies identify shooters by stick blade, tape job, handedness, and tendencies — Daccord noting that beyond individual identification, his reads center on what teams are looking for: "What teams are looking for. Do they love to go low to high and pound it? Do they look to make plays? … I think as you play more and you go through the League as a starter more and more, and you play teams, you kind of know where guys like to shoot" ^[9].

Daccord has also spoken openly about his use of NHL Sense Arena as part of his pre-game preparation. In Episode 318, he described his early skepticism when his father first showed it to him, calling it "a fun little video game," before beginning to use it regularly roughly two and a half seasons ago and finding that it sharpened his puck-tracking before warm-ups ^[5]. He has referred to certain saves he attributes to that training as "Sense Arena saves."

Kevin Woodley touched on Daccord's contract in the context of a broader market discussion during Episode 292 of the InGoal Radio Podcast ^[10]. Episode 272 featured Daccord as the primary guest in a conversation focused on game-reading and preparation ^[11], and Episode 13 from 2019 represents the earliest InGoal interview with Daccord on record ^[12]. The publication's milestone Episode 300 Parent Segment also cited Brian Daccord's How to Be a Goalie Parent as a recommended resource for goalie families ^[13].

InGoal Magazine has covered Joey Daccord in ten podcast appearances, three Parent Segments, and two Pro Reads.