- Age
- 32
- Catches
- Left
- Height
- 191 cm
- Weight
- 86 kg
- Born
- Riga, LVA
- Draft
- 2014, round 3, #76 (CBJ)
Career · 2019–20 to 2025–26
- Games
- 273
- Save %
- .900
- GAA
- 3.22
- GSAx
- −51.1
- Wins
- 108
- HD save %
- .767
Season by season
The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded goalies.
Form
Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.
Elvis Merzlikins's save percentage over the previous ten appearances. The dashed line is .900.
Player card
How 2019–20 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.
Overall rating
Backup
42nd percentile among qualified goalies, blending goaltending 75%, usage 25%.
- Starter
- Backup
- Third string / AHL
Goaltending
Backup- Save %.90040th pct
- GSAx−51.10th pct
- GSAx /60-0.2029th pct
- High-danger SV%.76770th pct
- Medium-danger SV%.85424th pct
- Low-danger SV%.96324th pct
- Rebound control−0.0549th pct
- GAA (lower is better)3.2222nd pct
Usage
Starter- Games started25789th pct
- Shots faced /6032.1189th pct
- xG faced /603.0273rd pct
Percentiles among goalies with 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).
Most similar players this season
Elvis Merzlikins −51.1 GSAx
GSAx, every goalie with 10+ games
Speed and tracking
From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time.
Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.
Tracking
- Goals-against average3.408th pct
- Share of games above .90041.4%27th pct
- Goal differential per 600.0047th pct
- Goal support per game3.4083rd pct
- Team points % in starts51.7%44th pct