Carolina Hurricanes · #55 · Goalie

Cayden Primeau

Age 27 · Catches left · 6′3″ · 205 lb · Born Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA

Drafted 2017, #199 overall by Montréal

Next game · Thu 8 Octvs Vancouver · 7:00 PM ETGame preview →

Games32025-26 · 3 starts

Record2-1-0Wins: 4th on CAR

Save %.838

GAA4.30

Shutouts0

Saves6780 shots faced

Quality starts00.0% of starts

Cayden Primeau posted a .838 save percentage and a 4.30 goals-against average over 3 games in 2025-26, with a 2-1-0 record.

This season

2026-27 regular season · 0 games

Carolina have played 4 games and Cayden Primeau has not dressed yet. Next game on Thursday 8 October against Vancouver. 2025-26 in full below.

Last season

2025-26 regular season · 3 games

2025-26 · The season

A .838 save percentage over 3 games

Where he ranks among NHL goalies with 25+ games, then his save percentage through the season in ten-game blocks.

Percentiles need 25 games in 2025-26; Cayden Primeau has 3.

Save % · ten-game blocks

Dashed line: season average (.838). Dark blocks sit at or above it.

Where he ranks

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Wins24th on CAR

Save %.838

Goals against avg4.30

Starts34th on CAR

Shutouts03rd on CAR

Stats hub

Workload and save % by strength

Eighty-one points of save percentage below the league at even strength

3 starts in 2025-26: save percentage split by strength, how often he finished what he started, and the goal support in front of him.

Save % by strength

Even strength.82468 shots · lg .904

Opponent power play.91712 shots · lg .853

League figures pool every goalie with the same minimum games (59 goalies).

Workload

Starts34th on CAR

Relief appearances0

Complete games3100.0% of games

Shots faced / 6026.5

Minutes181

Goal support

Goals for / 604.63

Goals against / 604.30

Regulation wins2

Regulation losses1

Quality starts00.0% of starts

Expected goals

5.9 goals below expected in 2025-26

How many goals the shots he faced should have produced, against how many went in.

GSAx−5.977th of 98 goalies

Expected goals against7.113 allowed

Save %.838Expected .911

GSAx per game−1.973 games

2025-26. Goals saved above expected = the expected goals of every unblocked shot he faced (empty net excluded) minus the goals he allowed. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.

Goals saved above expected for every goalie →

2025-26 · Save % by zone

A .700 save percentage from the slot

Every shot on goal he faced, split into the same five zones as our shot maps. The map shows where the goals against came from.

Goal against

Save % by zone

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Crease.857

Slot.700

Wing.892

Point.857

Neutral zone1.000

Not enough shots yet to rank in 2025-26. Bars start at .750. Small sample: these numbers move a lot in the first weeks of a season.

Save % by zone, every goalie

5v5 save %.81565 shots at 5v5

Slot + crease save %.74127 shots

Games above .9000%0 of 3 games

Shots on goal faced8013 goals against

Game log

The last ten games

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DateOpponentResultSAGASV%TOI

29 Oct 2025@

CBJL 3-6246.75060:00

25 Oct 2025vs

BUFW 4-3 OT263.88561:28

14 Oct 2025vs

NSHW 7-4304.86760:00

Contract

$913K a season through 2027-28

Cap hit$913K0.9% of the $104M ceiling

Term2 yearsYear 1 of 2

Expires2027-28UFA at 28

Cap value$1.8MReported total

Cap space, every team Best-value contracts

Contract terms from public reports. Cap hit is the average annual charge against the salary cap, not a yearly salary; cap value is cap hit times the years of the deal, not a reported total. As of 1 Oct 2026.

Career

Regular season and playoffs

Career · regular season

Seven seasons, with 2 clubs

Career · regular season

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAASV%SO

2019-20MTL21102.52.9310

2020-21MTL41214.16.8490

2021-22MTL121714.62.8680

2022-23MTL30203.46.8520

2023-24MTL238942.99.9102

2024-25MTL112314.70.8360

2025-26TOR32104.30.8380

Career58152573.73.8822

Season rows reconcile with the official career totals.

Draft

2017Montréal · round 7#199

Updated after every final · through 6 Oct