The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed 28-year-old goaltender Jhonas Enroth to a one-year contract worth $750,000.
Like several Kings backup goalies before him, Enroth’s numbers saw a significant jump in Los Angeles under Darryl Sutter’s defensive system last season as he put up a career-best .922 save percentage over 16 games (including two shutouts) in 2015-16.
A product of the Sabres organization (drafted in the 2nd round in 2006), Enroth’s biggest workload came in 2014-15 when he started 37 games for Buffalo before getting traded as a deadline rental, after which Enroth joined Dallas for the stretch run. He played 50 games total that season and posted a .904 save percentage, but he strung together some impressive performances while fighting an uphill battle behind a historically-bad Sabres team — particularly his 10-3-1 run wherein he posted a .924 save percentage between mid November and late December.
Among the 56 goalies with 80 or more games played since 2010-11, Enroth ranks 43rd in the league with a .911 save percentage.
Enroth shows better in Quality Start Percentage, where he ranks 24th of 65 with a .559. QS% measures how often a goaltender gives his team a chance to win with league average or above goaltending — in other words, the percentage of games in which a goalie achieves at least the mean save percentage for that season — and Enroth has given his team a better than league average percentage of quality starts over his career.
Player | Age | From | To | Active | GP | GS | SV% | SO | QS% |
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Cory Schneider | 27 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 260 | 249 | 0.926 | 21 | 0.651 |
Cam Talbot | 27 | 2013 | 2016 | 3 | 113 | 106 | 0.924 | 11 | 0.557 |
Henrik Lundqvist | 31 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 347 | 344 | 0.923 | 35 | 0.608 |
Carey Price | 26 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 313 | 310 | 0.923 | 32 | 0.59 |
Tuukka Rask | 26 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 280 | 270 | 0.923 | 24 | 0.626 |
Tim Thomas | 37 | 2010 | 2014 | 3 | 164 | 155 | 0.923 | 14 | 0.619 |
Ben Bishop | 27 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 225 | 217 | 0.921 | 18 | 0.594 |
Braden Holtby | 24 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 244 | 236 | 0.921 | 23 | 0.602 |
Roberto Luongo | 34 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 314 | 309 | 0.921 | 21 | 0.589 |
Petr Mrazek | 22 | 2012 | 2016 | 4 | 94 | 83 | 0.92 | 9 | 0.614 |
Tomas Vokoun | 35 | 2010 | 2013 | 3 | 125 | 120 | 0.92 | 13 | 0.525 |
Thomas Greiss | 28 | 2011 | 2016 | 5 | 111 | 95 | 0.919 | 4 | 0.547 |
Martin Jones | 25 | 2013 | 2016 | 3 | 99 | 94 | 0.919 | 13 | 0.574 |
Frederik Andersen | 25 | 2013 | 2016 | 3 | 125 | 114 | 0.918 | 6 | 0.596 |
Corey Crawford | 29 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 318 | 309 | 0.918 | 18 | 0.612 |
Jonathan Quick | 28 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 356 | 352 | 0.918 | 34 | 0.568 |
Pekka Rinne | 31 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 334 | 332 | 0.918 | 26 | 0.59 |
Semyon Varlamov | 25 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 292 | 284 | 0.918 | 18 | 0.563 |
Craig Anderson | 32 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 286 | 280 | 0.917 | 19 | 0.55 |
Sergei Bobrovsky | 25 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 267 | 257 | 0.917 | 12 | 0.584 |
Devan Dubnyk | 27 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 279 | 264 | 0.917 | 19 | 0.538 |
Brian Elliott | 28 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 235 | 215 | 0.917 | 28 | 0.581 |
Marc-Andre Fleury | 29 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 351 | 343 | 0.917 | 27 | 0.551 |
Jaroslav Halak | 28 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 266 | 263 | 0.917 | 30 | 0.578 |
Anton Khudobin | 27 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 98 | 91 | 0.917 | 5 | 0.571 |
Chad Johnson | 27 | 2010 | 2016 | 5 | 96 | 84 | 0.916 | 4 | 0.571 |
Robin Lehner | 22 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 107 | 97 | 0.916 | 3 | 0.598 |
Ryan Miller | 33 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 322 | 319 | 0.916 | 19 | 0.552 |
Jake Allen | 24 | 2012 | 2016 | 3 | 99 | 89 | 0.915 | 11 | 0.551 |
Jonathan Bernier | 25 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 206 | 187 | 0.915 | 11 | 0.551 |
Antti Niemi | 30 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 344 | 339 | 0.915 | 28 | 0.54 |
Mike Smith | 31 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 279 | 275 | 0.915 | 20 | 0.542 |
Kari Lehtonen | 30 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 337 | 330 | 0.914 | 20 | 0.548 |
Michal Neuvirth | 25 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 178 | 160 | 0.914 | 10 | 0.531 |
James Reimer | 25 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 215 | 196 | 0.914 | 14 | 0.52 |
Jimmy Howard | 29 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 303 | 295 | 0.913 | 19 | 0.536 |
Jose Theodore | 35 | 2010 | 2013 | 3 | 100 | 94 | 0.913 | 4 | 0.564 |
Cam Ward | 29 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 292 | 286 | 0.913 | 11 | 0.521 |
Jonas Hiller | 31 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 276 | 260 | 0.912 | 17 | 0.523 |
Darcy Kuemper | 24 | 2012 | 2016 | 4 | 84 | 72 | 0.912 | 7 | 0.514 |
Eddie Lack | 27 | 2013 | 2016 | 3 | 116 | 103 | 0.912 | 8 | 0.505 |
Steve Mason | 25 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 286 | 276 | 0.912 | 15 | 0.518 |
Jhonas Enroth | 25 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 146 | 127 | 0.911 | 7 | 0.559 |
Karri Ramo | 28 | 2013 | 2016 | 3 | 110 | 106 | 0.911 | 5 | 0.5 |
Niklas Backstrom | 35 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 183 | 172 | 0.91 | 9 | 0.488 |
Ilya Bryzgalov | 32 | 2010 | 2015 | 5 | 207 | 200 | 0.91 | 18 | 0.55 |
Jean-Sebastien Giguere | 35 | 2010 | 2014 | 4 | 105 | 89 | 0.91 | 4 | 0.539 |
Miikka Kiprusoff | 35 | 2010 | 2013 | 3 | 165 | 163 | 0.909 | 10 | 0.546 |
Al Montoya | 28 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 131 | 106 | 0.909 | 4 | 0.575 |
Johan Hedberg | 38 | 2010 | 2013 | 3 | 80 | 69 | 0.908 | 8 | 0.551 |
Evgeni Nabokov | 38 | 2011 | 2015 | 4 | 134 | 130 | 0.908 | 9 | 0.492 |
Ondrej Pavelec | 26 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 310 | 298 | 0.908 | 15 | 0.473 |
Ray Emery | 30 | 2010 | 2015 | 5 | 124 | 101 | 0.905 | 5 | 0.525 |
Curtis McElhinney | 30 | 2010 | 2016 | 5 | 108 | 84 | 0.905 | 4 | 0.44 |
Ben Scrivens | 27 | 2011 | 2016 | 5 | 144 | 130 | 0.905 | 7 | 0.462 |
Martin Brodeur | 40 | 2010 | 2015 | 5 | 190 | 186 | 0.904 | 15 | 0.495 |
Anders Lindback | 25 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 130 | 102 | 0.904 | 3 | 0.461 |
Jacob Markstrom | 24 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 83 | 73 | 0.904 | 0 | 0.452 |
Peter Budaj | 30 | 2010 | 2016 | 5 | 100 | 88 | 0.903 | 3 | 0.409 |
Scott Clemmensen | 35 | 2010 | 2015 | 5 | 100 | 76 | 0.902 | 2 | 0.461 |
Jonas Gustavsson | 29 | 2010 | 2016 | 6 | 130 | 113 | 0.902 | 6 | 0.416 |
Dwayne Roloson | 42 | 2010 | 2012 | 2 | 94 | 85 | 0.902 | 5 | 0.459 |
Mathieu Garon | 34 | 2010 | 2013 | 3 | 102 | 89 | 0.9 | 4 | 0.404 |
Nikolai Khabibulin | 40 | 2010 | 2014 | 4 | 103 | 101 | 0.9 | 5 | 0.416 |
Dan Ellis | 32 | 2010 | 2015 | 5 | 101 | 82 | 0.899 | 5 | 0.402 |
His size (5’10) is out of step with the current trend at the goalie position, but the Swede should do the trick as a serviceable backup – if everything goes as planned with Frederik Andersen – for 20 or so starts this season. With Andersen locked in as starter of the future, trading assets for a backup goalie didn’t make sense, and Enroth was the only reasonable option with experience remaining in the free agency pool.
Enroth earned $1.25 million AAV on his last two contracts (a two-year deal with Buffalo, and most recently on a one-year deal in LA), so this is a low number that should help the Leafs‘ cap situation. The Leafs spent just under $6 million on their goaltending tandem of Reimer and Bernier last season, so the hope is they’re spending about the same amount of money but getting a far better return than last season’s .904 team save percentage in all situations (25th in the NHL).
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Leafs management has addressed the goaltending position at all levels with the addition of four new goalies in the last four months via trade, the draft, and free agency. The number of goalies who can capably play 65+ games and stay healthy can be counted on one hand, so while a quality backup is important, the Leafs are certainly hoping Enroth isn’t asked to play too big of a role this season. With the addition and subsequent long-term extension of Frederik Andersen, the expectation will be that the big Dane can provide the year-over-year quality starting goaltending that has eluded the organization for over a decade.