Illegal Curve Hockey

Numbers Game: The Brodeur Milestone

In anticipation of Brodeur becoming the all-time leader in wins at the age of 36, in today’s Numbers Game, I look at the stats that some of the current NHL goalies would have to achieve in order to reach 551 wins and 100 shutouts by the time they turn 36.

		Career Statistics			Averages per season needed to reach stats by age 36
	Age	Games Played	Wins	Shutouts	Games	Wins	Win %	Shutouts
Martin Brodeur	36	986	551	100	—	—	—	—
Steve Mason	20	49	28	9	58.6	32.7	0.558	5.7
Marc-Andre Fleury	24	225	104	14	63.4	37.3	0.587	5.3
Henrik Lundqvist	27	254	135	19	81.3	46.2	0.568	9.0
Roberto Luongo	29	531	222	43	65.0	47.0	0.723	8.1