Jordan Binnington

Jordan Binnington was born on July 11, 1993, in Richmond Hill, Ontario. The left-catching goaltender stands 6'2" and weighs 172 pounds. He was selected by the St. Louis Blues in the third round (27th pick) of the 2011 NHL Draft and wears number 50. Before turning professional, he played major junior hockey for the Owen Sound Attack of the Ontario Hockey League, winning the Hap Emms Memorial Trophy as the top goaltender at the 2011 Memorial Cup and the 2013 Jim Rutherford Trophy as the OHL's goaltender of the year.

Binnington's path to the NHL included a memorable first full season in St. Louis. In 32 regular season games during that rookie year, he posted a .927 save percentage, and the Blues went on to win the Stanley Cup. In the 2019-20 season, he appeared in 50 games for the Blues, enough to establish him as the clear starter ahead of veteran Jake Allen.

Questions about his second season circulated widely, but an examination of advanced data told a different story. As InGoal reported Myth or Fact? Exploring Narrative of Binnington’s Sophomore Slump, Clear Sight Analytics ranked Binnington fourth in the league in goals saved above expectation, having stopped 13.56 more goals than expected across 1,260 chances. The same analysis placed his Save Percentage Differential — at 1.08 percent — seventh among 50 goalies who faced at least 670 chances. The data also revealed that Binnington faced the sixth most difficult shots in the league that season, meaning the Blues' defensive reputation did not translate into an easy workload. He ranked second in the entire league at stopping shots off slot-line passes, behind only Marc-André Fleury, saving more than eight goals above expectation on that shot type alone.

Off the ice, Binnington's pre-game habits drew attention during and after the Blues' Cup run. He described the origins of his on-ice warm-up routine to InGoal Pro-Tips: Binnington brings pre-game juggling onto ice with unique warm up: "I'm always juggling with balls before the game and back of the hand catching it, so it's kind of what I do. I just brought it onto the ice." He elaborated: "Just watching the puck, getting my eyes going and feeling it in my gloves. You don't really do that with your blocker very often but just kind of finesse, work on just feeling the puck and using my eyes and getting my stick involved, you know, covering pucks off my pads. It's just a warm up. It goes into my warmup that I've been doing for a few years now."

The development work happening behind the scenes in St. Louis also drew InGoal's attention. Blues goalie coach Dave Alexander, writing for InGoal Blues Goalie Coach Shifts Binnington Drill Focus to Problem Solving, described presenting on Binnington's puck-moving skills at an international coaching convention, specifically how those skills function within what Alexander called a "harmonious flow" with his defensemen. Alexander's approach with Binnington has moved beyond technique repetition toward what he described as training the goaltender's ability to solve different problems within different game-like contexts — incorporating variability and constraints into drills to develop perceptual skills such as reading forecheckers, directing traffic flow, and executing clean zone exits.

Through 377 career NHL games, Binnington has posted 186 wins, 136 losses, and 43 overtime losses, with a career goals-against average of 2.83, a save percentage of .903, and 19 shutouts. In the current 2025-26 season, he has appeared in 41 games for St. Louis, going 13-20-7 with a 3.33 goals-against average, an .873 save percentage, and 1 shutout.

InGoal Magazine has covered Jordan Binnington in three InGoal articles.