Thatcher Demko
Age 30 · Catches left · 6′4″ · 192 lb · Born San Diego, California, USA
Drafted 2014, #36 overall by Vancouver
at Carolina · 7:00 PM ETThatcher Demko posted a .897 save percentage and a 2.90 goals-against average over 20 games in 2025-26, with a 8-10-1 record.
This season
2026-27 regular season · 0 gamesVancouver have played 4 games and Thatcher Demko has not dressed yet (ir, hip). Next game on Thursday 8 October at Carolina. 2025-26 in full below.
Last season
2025-26 regular season · 20 gamesA .897 save percentage over 20 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; Thatcher Demko has 20.
Save % · ten-game blocks
Dashed line: season average (.895). Dark blocks sit at or above it.
Where he ranks
See all: Where he ranks →Three points of save percentage above the league at even strength
20 starts in 2025-26: save percentage split by strength, how often he finished what he started, and the goal support in front of him.
Workload
4.6 goals saved above expected in 2025-26
How many goals the shots he faced should have produced, against how many went in.
2025-26. Goals saved above expected = the expected goals of every unblocked shot he faced (empty net excluded) minus the goals he allowed.
A .863 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.
Save % by zone
See all: Save % by zone →Not enough shots yet to rank in 2025-26. Bars start at .750.
Save % by zone, every goalie.900 or better in 9 of 20 starts
How often he gives his team a chance, from the game log.
The last ten games
TORL 0-563.50020:00
BUFL 3-5194.78958:51
SEAOTL 3-4 SO283.89365:00
PHIL 3-6314.87158:46
SJSL 3-6365.88959:56PHIL 2-5384.89558:44
NYIW 4-1241.95860:00
NYRW 3-02301.00059:51
NJDW 2-1261.96260:00BUFL 2-3153.80057:54Better on the road
Home and road
By opponent
By month
3.5% for the Vezina Trophy
Season ladders and award futures he is priced for, as the venues' average midpoint.
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$8.5M a season through 2028-29
In 2025-26 he saved +0.55 goals above expected per $1M of cap hit, 29th of 59 goalies with 20 or more games and a current contract.
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.
With Vancouver
Nine seasons · 2017-18 to 2025-263rd in franchise wins since 1990-91
Franchise ranks
See all: Franchise ranks →Career
Regular season and playoffsNine seasons, all with the Canucks
Career · regular season
Season rows reconcile with the official career totals.
Draft
Updated after every final · through 6 Oct