Laurent Brossoit

Laurent Brossoit grew up in Port Alberni, British Columbia, and was selected by the Edmonton Oilers in the sixth round, 13th pick, of the 2011 NHL Draft. He stands 6'3" and weighs 203 pounds, catching left. Now 33, he currently plays for the San Jose Sharks, wearing number 93.

Brossoit won the Stanley Cup with the Vegas Golden Knights in 2023. Two days after his day with the Cup, he traveled to Kelowna to join his long-time trainer Adam Francilia and agent Ray Petkau at the NET360 Goalie Camp they have run for the past 10 years. InGoal Magazine was on hand and on the ice to film those sessions, and Brossoit spent an extra 30 minutes doing Pro Reads with the publication. That visit produced his first three Pro Read breakdowns, all focused on saves from his Cup-winning season in Las Vegas Laurent Brossoit ProRead 1 Laurent Brossoit ProRead 2 Laurent Brossoit ProRead 3.

He subsequently returned to Winnipeg as a free agent, re-joining the Jets and fellow NET360 regular and Jets goalie coach Wade Flaherty. During a Jets streak of 12 consecutive games with a point — which had them atop the NHL standings — and a franchise-record run of 29 consecutive games without surrendering more than three goals (described at the time as second in the modern era), Brossoit won all three of his starts while posting a .946 save percentage. His +4.2 save percentage differential since December 1 of that season ranked third in the NHL during that span. Those performances prompted a fourth Pro Read with InGoal Laurent Brossoit ProRead 4.

InGoal Magazine has covered Laurent Brossoit in four Pro Reads. Across all four sessions, Brossoit walked through the mechanics of lateral movement, skate-or-slide decisions, rotation timing, and the temptation to reach early on backdoor plays. In the first breakdown, he described needing to play more aggressively than usual on a long pass through traffic to Jason Robertson of the Dallas Stars, opting for a t-push rather than his preferred lateral shuffle because the passer was positioned outside the top of the circle Laurent Brossoit ProRead 1. "You want to stay on your feet as much as possible given that he is passing it from outside the top of the circle and outside of the dots," he said. "A slide here and you are too committed and there are too many other people that can get a stick on it."

In the second session, also against Dallas, Brossoit discussed reading Jamie Benn as a passing threat early in a rush play and described his movement as more of a shift than a push because he anticipated the pass without going too hard or too early. He also pointed to an element he wanted to clean up: "To nitpick — because I'm a bit of a perfectionist — I anticipated it and I still came up," he said Laurent Brossoit ProRead 2.

The third breakdown covered a broken-play rush against the Minnesota Wild, where Brossoit identified his own positioning as too aggressive. "When I am more aggressive than usual, I play a little more high-strung because plays become more difficult, longer movement patterns," he said. He also noted that shuffling before rotating made the rest of the movement pattern harder. "I was sloppy. I just needed an early rotation and that would have been a lot easier" Laurent Brossoit ProRead 3.

In the fourth Pro Read, set against the Seattle Kraken on a power play, Brossoit expressed satisfaction with his rotation on a backdoor sequence. "The one thing I do like about this one is not making these big, grand, long pushes," he said, adding: "Once I see that he's one-timing it, a lot of times it's so easy to see the one-timer and just start to try to get a blocker on it or you go into a spread and you come undone but I stayed controlled for another split second, enough to seal" Laurent Brossoit ProRead 4.

Over his NHL career, Brossoit has appeared in 141 games, going 64-47-13 with a 2.66 goals-against average, a .910 save percentage, and 6 shutouts.