The Career of Craig Anderson

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of Craig Anderson, who announced at the end of this season in Buffalo, that's all he's done now. I did a video of Craig Anderson a couple of years ago when he hit 300 wins. Now we're making this video in his Throughout my

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I felt like using Ottawa made the most sense. He played there for a long time. He won an award as a member of the Ottawa Senators and was part of a very memorable career for the Ottawa Senators. Furthermore, he is the 73rd pick. In 2001, it was the second time he was in the draft.

He was originally drafted 77th overall in 1989 by the Calgary Flames. He could not reach a contractual agreement with them, so he returned to the draft. That's what he went through two years later. your draft, if you hadn't signed a contract, you come back immediately for Craig Anderson made his debut with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2002-2003 basically a cup of coffee here six games oh three and two record with a 856 8th percentage 2003 2004 as a backup for Chicago, 21 games have a record of 6 and 14 and a safety percentage of 905, these were not the Chicago Blackhawks, it would be half a decade later, uh, 2005-2006, so after the lockout ends the season of o405 , is still in Chicago. 29 games, 6, 12 and 4 record a save percentage of 886, however, he bounces around the league a bit even though he is still a Chicago Blackhawk.

On January 19, claimed by Boston, he does not play a game. On January 31, he is claimed by St. Louis, so these teams put him on waivers. So now St Louis claimed him and then on February 3rd, a few days later, the Chicago Blackhawks claimed him again, so he bounced around to three different teams and ended up right where he started and didn't miss a beat, so on June 24th . of that year he was traded for a 2008 6th round pick to the Florida Panthers, so Florida picks him up and again not a lot of expectations, he doesn't play much in the 0607 season, five games, a record one, one and one , but the same percentage of 931 is encouraging, so it is a safe percentage, the best there has been up to that point and then 0708 plays more games that year 17. uh, eight, six and a record in those 17 games and a safe percentage of 9.35, so that's starting to go up. and things are looking good 2008 2009 in his last season in Florida 31 games 15 7-5 record his 924 safety percentage was third in the NHL that year so overall his numbers are excellent and that's why he becomes a young Target goalie and free agent hitting free agency. and on July 1st he signs as a free agent with the Colorado Avalanche and Colorado, well, they put him to work.

He ended up being the surprising starter in 0910, 71 games, fifth overall in the NHL, 38 wins, seventh overall with 25 losses. which is 16. sixth mistake, I should say overall in the league and seven draws, extra time losses, penalty shootout points, however if you want to look at them, that third column is always there and we don't really pay much attention to it or we should 917 percent safe. and then in the playoffs uh six games two and four in those playoffs 9 33 save percentage those numbers are great, in fact, it's the fourth investment in voting that year and it's ninth in heart voting, so it goes from being claimed off waivers three times in less than a month to be a backup in Florida after a couple of years where he didn't really play much and suddenly he's in the top five in Vesna voting the following year in Colorado 2010 2011 33 games in Colorado 13-15 and three record safe percentages of 897, so he can't continue that.

He can't have another season like last, so Colorado decides to make a trade and it's a goalie for goalie trade. On February 18 he was traded for Brian Elliott Brian Elliott. who had had some good years with Ottawa but broke through and in Ottawa Craig Anderson hits the next speed 18 games and a record of 11 5-1 with a safety percentage of 939, so the combined number of 897,939 ends up around the middle there, but he's playing much better in Ottawa than he did in Colorado before. Clearly the trade benefited him, as I recall. Elliot didn't last as long in Colorado, the trade didn't benefit him as much as he did with Anderson.

So in his first full season in Ottawa, a pretty good season, 63 games, 33 wins, which is 10th overall in the NHL, 22 regulation losses, which is 7th in the third column with 6th, there are 914 percentage security in the playoffs, seven games, a record three. and four with a safety percentage of 933, so Anderson has become the starter. He went from being a starter in Colorado to being out of Colorado and is now a starter in Ottawa. The lockout-shortened season of 2012 and 2013 was placed at 24 games, a record 12 9 and 2 9 41. safe percentage which is first in the NHL a 1.69 goals against average and in the playoffs he played 10 games a record of 5 and 4 9 18 safe percentage and fourth voting inversion that year so he narrowly missed being a Vesna finalist two seasons uh in his time, between 2009, 2010 and 2012, 2013.

So, 2013, 2014 . 53 games, a record of 25, 16 and 8, 9, 11, safe percentage. We're in that period where Ottawa would make the playoffs every two years, a pattern they would do. break by not making the playoffs for a while 2014-2015 placed 35 games, a record of 14 13 and 8 9 23 save percentage, which is seventh overall in the NHL that year in the playoffs, it is two and two in four games with a safe percentage of 972. Playoff numbers are great, they really are uh 2015 2016 60 games played, which was 10th overall in the NHL that year record of 31-23-5 23 regulation losses are seventh in the NHL uh 9 16 percentage for sure, so his numbers are good his numbers are very good throughout 2016-2017 This is the big year 40 games 25 11 and 4 record 926 a percentage that is third overall in the playoffs a record of 11 and 8 in 19 games 9 22 percentage sure won the masterton trophy that year Because on October 29, 2016 his wife was diagnosed with throat cancer, he would leave the team, deal with it and still played very well despite what we would have understood as a huge distraction in the office, so it becomes something like that.

This big thing for Ottawa is like they are playing against Fran Anderson and Anderson is playing for them and when he is in net he is very good and that is both in the regular season and in the playoffs, unfortunately that streak did not extend further than in 2017. The Penguins stop them, but in 2017-2018 things fall apart for the Senators. He ends up playing 58 games with his record at 23, 25 or 23, yes, 23, 25 and 6. The 25 regulation losses are ninth overall in the NHL and a safe percentage drops to 8.98, so he can't continue what was a fantastic season with another and again remember he was drafted in 2001 so he is getting older and even with goalies they get older apparently they tend to age better than other skaters and players but goalies the age march that everyone gets 2018-2019 Play 47 games 17-27 and four record 27 losses in regulation are second in the NHL 903 confident person manages 2019-2020 34 games 11 17 and 2 record 902 save percentage 17 losses and regulation rank 10th in overall in the NHL that year, so the perception is that at this point, he's probably already done it, but on January 13th of the following season he signs as a free agent with the Capitals, so the Capitals need some depth in the goal, so they choose. he went up and would go up towards the end of the season and played well in four games, a 2-1-0 record, 915 safe percentage, played in two playoff games that year and was also one and one with a safe percentage of 929 and Somehow let us all know that while Anderson seemed to be done when he ended up with the Ottawa Senators and they decided to move in another direction, he still had some hockey left in him, so in 2021 and 2022 he will sign on 28 July before that.

The season starts with the Buffalo Sabers now, for the Sabers it felt like they were hiring veterans and this was to make sure they had those veterans to protect their rookies from being in the lineup too early, but Anderson has a record Pretty decent 31 games, 17-12 and two safety percentage record of 897, so again Craig Anderson proves he can still play. He may not be the goalie he said he was in 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and then, but he can still play. still be a decent backup option or a1b situation right uh 2022 2023 season just finished regular season anyway 26 games with the sabers 11 11 and 2 safe percentage record of 908 so his numbers improved This year, I think if I wanted to come back for one more year, I could have found a place to play as a substitute.

I don't know if he necessarily would have been Buffalo, but I think he could have found a backup job somewhere, so at the end of his career he played 709 games, among the goalies. ranks 29th all-time 319 wins, which is 31st all-time 275 losses in regulation, which is 27th all-time 73 draws overtime losses penalty shootout losses 912 percentage sure is solid a throughout his playoff career in 48 games, a record of 24 and 23 and 929 safe percentage, so Craig Anderson has a really solid career throughout, basically, and again, uh, 2020, 2021, it was kind of he did well, he's playing in the AHL at the end of that, but he has two years with Buffalo after that he adds another 57 games. another 28 wins get to that 300 win mark and keep their numbers pretty solid, so there you go, let me know what you think in the comments section below, as always don't forget to like and subscribe if you're browsing through you.

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