Kraken's Philipp Grubauer: Season to forget

Grubauer ended 2021-22 with an 18-31-5 record, a 3.16 GAA and an .889 save percentage in 55 games.

Grubauer went from Vezina candidate with the Avalanche in 2020-21 to one of the statistically worst starters in the league in 2021-22 despite playing a career high in games. That happened because backups Chris Driedger and Joey Daccord failed to do much better behind a porous Kraken defense. Grubauer's neither as bad as he was last season nor as good as the year before -- somewhere in the middle would shake out to about a 2.60 GAA and a .905 save percentage if he can get a little help from his teammates in the Kraken's second campaign.