About Last Season: Pyotr Kochetkov

Pyotr Kochetkov 2022-23 By The Numbers

Age: 24

NHL seasons: 8

Stats: 12-7-5, 2.44 GAA, .909 save percentage, four shutouts in 24 games played, 23 starts

Playoff stats: 0-0-1, .818 save percentage, 6.14 GAA in one game played, 0 starts

Pyotr Kochetkov continued to demonstrate why he’s viewed as the Hurricanes’ goalie of the future in 2022-23, making a career-high 23 starts. While his season was a mixed bag overall, when he’s on, he’s on, and that ability to be a future No. 1 goalie shone through, particularly when he was called upon to step up with Frederik Andersen injured.

In all of the hoopla of the tooth-and-nail battle with the New Jersey Devils in the second half of the season, and the…