1 L · 0 OT · 3 GP
0.867 SV% · 3.64 GAA · 0 SO
Buffalo Sabres#31Active
Matt Villalta
G · 6′3″ / 190 lb · Catches L · Kingston, CAN · Age 27 · 2017 #72 by LAK
1Career wins
0.867Career SV%
3.64Career GAA
0Shutouts
2 seasonsNHL service
Overview
2024-251wins
The last read.
1 win in 1 appearance in 2024-25, his most recent NHL season. Career: 1 win and 0 shutouts.
1GP
1wins
0.903SV%
3.00GAA
0SO
0losses
The career ledger.
Regular season and playoffsofficial NHL landing
0 L · 0 OT · 0 GP
— SV% · — GAA · 0 SO
The height of the career.
Peak season and the best five41+ GP qualified seasons
2024-25 peak: 1 GP / 1 W / 0.903 SV% / 3.00 GAA · 60:00 TOI
What this draft slot returns.
Base rate for the exact pick, a history, never a forecastdraft-position study · 2026-07-14-prospect-translation-v2.32
2017 draft#72round 3 · LAK
Rates: insufficient sample (n=10 of 32): no NHLer/impact/star/stayer rate shown for this cohort.
Sample: 10 players taken #72, drawn only from classes old enough to judge, on the Schuckers-style pick curve published on Draft Value. A base rate describes a slot, not a person: it cannot predict this career and is not used to grade it.
Floor rule: rates below a minimum sample are suppressed, not shown thin. Exact slot needs 12+ players, the pooled pick-curve band needs 32+, matching this site's builders to the nhl-draft-intel engine's own bucket-calibration floors (12 / 18 / 32).
The arc.
Wins and save percentage by seasonNHL season log · 2 seasons
Last five games.
Most recent official appearancesofficial game log
2025-04-14@ NSH60:00 TOIW31 SA · 3 GA · 0.903
Career
Where he stands right now.
2025-26 league position and career shapeNHL league browser 2025-26
Season by season.
Every NHL season · peak highlighted, split seasons kept apart2 regular-season rows
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OT | SV% | GAA | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25Peak | Utah Hockey Club | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.903 | 3.00 | 0 |
| 2023-24 | Arizona Coyotes | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.828 | 4.17 | 0 |
No NHL playoff row is available.
Before the NHL.
Junior, college, European and international rowsofficial NHL landing · season totals
| Season | League | Team | GP | W | SV% | GAA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | AHL | Tucson Roadrunners | 33 | 16 | 0.895 | 3.10 |
| 2024-25 | AHL | Tucson Roadrunners | 43 | 18 | 0.905 | 3.03 |
| 2024-25 | AHL | Tucson Roadrunners | 1 | 0 | 0.826 | 4.12 |
| 2023-24 | AHL | Tucson Roadrunners | 51 | 31 | 0.911 | 2.54 |
| 2023-24 | AHL | Tucson Roadrunners | 2 | 0 | 0.914 | 2.56 |
| 2022-23 | AHL | Ontario Reign | 22 | 12 | 0.910 | 2.65 |
| 2021-22 | AHL | Ontario Reign | 46 | 28 | 0.903 | 2.98 |
| 2021-22 | AHL | Ontario Reign | 3 | 2 | 0.829 | 4.64 |
| 2020-21 | AHL | Ontario Reign | 18 | 8 | 0.889 | 3.43 |
| 2020-21 | AHL | Ontario Reign | 1 | 0 | 0.828 | 4.35 |
| 2019-20 | AHL | Ontario Reign | 22 | 10 | 0.899 | 3.27 |
| 2019-20 | ECHL | Fort Wayne Komets | 8 | 4 | 0.864 | 3.85 |
| 2018-19 | OHL | Soo Greyhounds | 51 | 33 | 0.903 | 3.03 |
| 2018-19 | OHL | Soo Greyhounds | 11 | 6 | 0.885 | 3.43 |
| 2017-18 | OHL | Soo Greyhounds | 49 | 40 | 0.908 | 2.58 |
| 2017-18 | OHL | Soo Greyhounds | 24 | 14 | 0.893 | 3.30 |
| 2016-17 | OHL | Soo Greyhounds | 33 | 25 | 0.918 | 2.41 |
| 2016-17 | OHL | Soo Greyhounds | 2 | 1 | 0.841 | 4.20 |
| 2014-15 | ETAHL U16 | Greater Kingston Gaels U16 AAA | 34 | 0 | — | — |
| 2014-15 | ETAMMHL | Greater Kingston Fr. Mn Mdgt AAA | 34 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.00 |
The comparable set.
Chosen by a printed rule, not by feelNHL dossier pool · 1,162 careers
Selection rule. Goaltenders only; career games played within ±20% of 3 (or ±10 games, whichever band is wider: 1 to 13); then the five nearest by career SV%, ties broken by the closest games played. The pool is the 1,162 players in this site's NHL dossier set who own at least one official regular-season game: 24 of them cleared the band.
Hunter ShepardG · Undrafted · retired6 GP · 2 W · 0.863 SV% · 3.88 GAA0.863 SV% · −0.003Thomas MilicG · 2023 #151 · active3 GP · 0 W · 0.871 SV% · 3.46 GAA0.871 SV% · +0.004Olivier RodrigueG · 2018 #62 · active2 GP · 0 W · 0.862 SV% · 3.10 GAA0.862 SV% · −0.005Jakub SkarekG · 2018 #72 · retired2 GP · 0 W · 0.872 SV% · 3.94 GAA0.872 SV% · +0.005Carl LindbomG · 2021 #222 · active8 GP · 2 W · 0.873 SV% · 3.00 GAA0.873 SV% · +0.006
Similar career shape is not similar player. The rule matches volume and rate only; it knows nothing about era, position within the group, usage or role, and two careers can land on the same line for opposite reasons.
Game log
Official game ledger
Every 2025-26 appearance.
Loading the complete official ledger…official NHL game log
Insights
NHL Edge tracking.
Measured puck and player trackingNHL Edge tracking · api-web.nhle.com · coverage from 2021-22 · fetched 2026-08-17
No Edge tracking on file for Matt Villalta. The league publishes Edge for goaltenders from 2021-22 onward, and only for players it tracked in the covered season. Nothing is drawn here as a zero, because the absence is a coverage fact rather than a measurement.
Who solves him.
Every shooter on record against him · 3 seasonsNHL play-by-play · 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26 · 4,192 games · fetched 2026-08-18
60 shots on goal faced from 37 different shooters, 8 of them scored: 13.3% against, on a league baseline of 10.2%. 7 of those shooters have scored at least once.
Hunters: 3 or more goals on him
Nobody in this dataset has scored 3 on him. The threshold is not lowered to fill the board.
Method: goals, shots on goal and missed shots are attributed to the goaltender the feed says was in the net (details.goalieInNetId). Blocked shots are excluded, the puck never reached a goaltender, and empty-net events are excluded, because there was no goaltender to charge. Shooting percentage is goals divided by shots on goal, the league definition, in which shots on goal already include goals. The two board thresholds (3+ goals; 10+ shots at 15% or worse) are ported from the source project and printed here rather than left implicit. This is a count of what happened, not a rating of the goaltender.
The development file.
Draft path and latest leagueNHL API Draft Intelligence
27age at snapshot
AHLlatest league
2017 #72draft path
The source receipt.
Official basics plus named researchOfficial NHL API Web player landing, with local nhl api draft cache reuse
Career, season, game-log, bio, draft and award rows come from official NHL endpoints. Redraft is a separate hindsight model with its own snapshot clock. Pressure is a descriptive Gamelogs layer. Development Trails uses its own declared clock. Missing evidence stays unavailable rather than being drawn as zero.
Official endpoint: player landing · redraft 2026-07-10-redraft-v5.2 snapshot 2026-07-09.
The room.
Every current Buffalo Sabres teammate, one click awaycanonical player directory
Forwards 14
Defence 8
Goaltenders 3
Clubs on the official record
Utah Hockey ClubArizona Coyotes