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Hunter Shepard

Position	Goaltender	Current Team	Montreal Canadiens
Catches	Left	Current Contract	1 year ($775.0K CapHit)
Height	5'11"	Expires	2025-26
Weight (lbs)	225	Expiry Age (Jun 30)	30
Age (DOB)	30 (Nov 7, 1995)	Expiry Status	UFA
Drafted	Undrafted

News and Opinions

Newly acquired Canadiens goaltender Hunter Shepard mourning agent Jay Grossman's passing at Habs Fanatics (Wed Mar 18, 2026)
Habs Acquire Hunter Shepard and Jake Chiasson at Habs World (Fri Mar 13, 2026)
Montreal Canadiens acquire Hunter Shepard, Jake Chiasson for Riley Kidney at Habs Eyes on the Prize (Fri Mar 13, 2026)
Red Wings-Senators Tweetcap: Gibson, Red Wings pull out a crucial victory over Ottawa at The Malik Report (Tue Jan 6, 2026)
Ottawa Senators Prospect Update - November 12th at Silver Seven Sens (Wed Nov 12, 2025)
Crookshank, Daws help Utica shutout Belleville 3-0 at SenShot (Sat Nov 8, 2025)
Why it could be worth Senators giving Hunter Shepard a chance at an NHL start soon at SenShot (Mon Nov 3, 2025)
These two are each off to a solid start in goaltending battle in Belleville at SenShot (Wed Sep 24, 2025)
What can Hunter Shepard bring for Belleville? at SenShot (Tue Jul 8, 2025)
Hunter Shepard 2024-25 Report Card at Stars and Sticks (Tue May 20, 2025)

Career Statistics

			Regular Season									Playoffs
Season	League	Team	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	GA	GAA	Sv%	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	GA	GAA	Sv%
2011-12	USHS-MN	Grand Rapids High	10							2.20	0.908
2012-13	USHS-MN	Grand Rapids High	24					554	41	1.95	0.926	3							2.20	0.911
2012-13	UMHSEHL	Team Velocity	11							3.11	0.919	2							3.20	0.906
2013-14	USHS-MN	Grand Rapids High	25					427	35	2.64	0.918	2							2.71	0.914
2013-14	UMHSEHL	Team Velocity	12							2.57	0.926	1							6.53	0.792
2014-15	NAHL	Bismarck Bobcats	31							3.28	0.878	2							2.55	0.911
2015-16	NAHL	Bismarck Bobcats	50							1.90	0.926	11							2.28	0.926
2016-17	NCAA	Univ. of Minnesota-Duluth	2			2		51	4	2.58	0.922
2017-18	NCAA	Univ. of Minnesota-Duluth	41		25	14		1012	76	1.91	0.925
2018-19	NCAA	Univ. of Minnesota-Duluth	42		29	11	2	974	75	1.76	0.923
2019-20	NCAA	Univ. of Minnesota-Duluth	34		22	10	2	900	74	2.18	0.918
2020-21	AHL	Hershey Bears	3		3			96	3	1.00	0.969
2020-21	ECHL	South Carolina Stingrays	21		12	6	2	664	52	2.55	0.922	13		7	6		359	42	3.38	0.883
2021-22	AHL	Hershey Bears	9		5	3		217	17	2.06	0.922
2021-22	ECHL	South Carolina Stingrays	23		12	9	2	812	67	2.88	0.917
2022-23	AHL	Hershey Bears	33		20	8		835	70	2.18	0.916	20		14	6	5	523	45	2.27	0.914
2023-24	NHL	Washington Capitals	4	4	2	1	1	123	13	3.19	0.894
2023-24	AHL	Hershey Bears	34		27	4	3	860	61	1.76	0.929	20		14	6	3	553	50	2.49	0.910
2024-25	NHL	Washington Capitals	1	1		1		26	7	7.00	0.731
2024-25	AHL	Hershey Bears	39		23	11	4	959	105	2.80	0.891	7		2	5	4	178	19	2.77	0.893
2025-26	NHL	Ottawa Senators	1	1		1		12	2	3.35	0.833
2025-26	AHL	Laval Rocket	4		1	2	2	79	8	2.40	0.899	1					12	2	3.00	0.833
2025-26	AHL	Belleville Senators	15		6	7	2	470	54	3.65	0.885
NHL Career			6	6	2	3	1	161	22	3.88	0.863

Core Archetypes

Season	Team(s)	GP	TOI	Producer	Playmaker	Shooter	Sniper	Rebound	Rush	Skating	Defend

Situational and Secondary Archetypes

Season	Team(s)	GP	TOI	5v5 TOI	5v4 TOI	4v5 TOI	Possession	Drive	Suppress	Faceoffs

See About Skater Archetypes for more information about skater archetypes.

5v5 Goalie Stats

Season	Team(s)	GP	TOI	SAA/60	SA/60	xGA/60	GA/60	GS/60	Sv%	xSv%	Sv%AE
2023-24	WSH	4	205:41	50.76	32.09	2.98	3.21	-0.23	90.00	90.70	-0.70
2024-25	WSH	1	52:08	39.13	27.62	3.44	8.06	-4.61	70.83	87.53	-16.70
2025-26	OTT	1	22:45	31.65	23.74	1.53	2.64	-1.10	88.89	93.54	-4.65

4v5 Goalie Stats

Season	Team(s)	GP	TOI	SAA/60	SA/60	xGA/60	GA/60	GS/60	Sv%	xSv%	Sv%AE
2023-24	WSH	4	9:13	32.55	26.04	2.67	13.02	-10.35	50.00	89.75	-39.75
2024-25	WSH	1	3:52	46.55	31.03	2.01	0.00	2.01	100.00	93.53	6.47
2025-26	OTT	1	7:31	31.93	15.96	3.55	0.00	3.55	100.00	77.74	22.26

Legend

Percentile 0-25

Percentile 25-50

Percentile 50-75

Percentile 75-100

Glossary

Statistic	Definition
SAA/60	Shot Attempts Against per 60 minutes.
SA/60	Shots Against per 60 minutes.
xGA/60	Expected Goals Against per 60 minutes.
GA/60	Goals Against per 60 minutes (lower is better).
GS/60	Goals Saved per 60 minutes (xGA/60 -GA/60).
Sv%	Save Percentage.
xSv%	Expected Save Percentage.
Sv%AE	Save Percentage above Expected (Sv% - xSv%).

Data from Puckalytics.com (starting in 2015-16).

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Player cards present an infographic of a players performance using a series of Player Archetypes developed for Puckalytics.com and TheStanleyCap.com. The boxes in the rink image show the archetype ratings for the season specified in the card while the graphs to the right show the five-year trends for those archetypes.

Except for Faceoffs, the values shown are the players z-score (standard deviation from the mean) for the specific metric used to calculate the archetype values. When calculating z-scores forwards were compared to forwards and defensemen were compared to defensemen. Positive values indicate the player is above average and shaded in blue, while negative values indicate the player is below average and shaded in pink. The five year trend charts show a range of -4.0 to 4.0.

The value shown for Faceoffs is the faceoff winning percentage rather than their z-score with winning percentages below 50 in pink shades and above 50 in blue shades.

All archetypes are 5v5 except 5v4 TOI, 4v5 TOI, Skating (even strength) and Faceoffs (all situations). Archetypes use regular season data only.

Archetypes Summary

Sniper - Measures the to score above the expected goal rate.
Rebound - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rebounds (forwards only).
5v4 TOI - Powerplay ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 5v4 ice time that the player was on the ice for.
Shooter - Measures whether a players points come from shots (goals or assists on rebounds from his shots).
Producer - Measures a players ability to produce goals and assists, adjusted for quality of teammates.
Playmaker - Measures whether a players points come from passes.
Drive - Measures a players ability to drive puck possession and generate shot attempts for his team.
Rush - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rush plays
Possession - An indicator of a players ability to improve his teams puck possession game.
Faceoffs - Faceoff Winning Percentage (min. 75 faceoffs taken).
5v5 TOI - The percentage of his teams 5v5 TOI that the player was on the ice for.
Suppress - Measures a players ability to suppress opponent puck possession and shot attempts against.
Skating - An indicator of a players skating ability, or speed bursts above 20mph per mile skated.
Defend - An indicator of a players ability to suppress shot quality against.
4v5 TOI - Penalty Kill ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 4v5 ice time that the player was on the ice for.

Data Sources

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Skating data is from NHL Edge
Other statistics are from Puckalytics.com and derived from data from NHL.com

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