By The Numbers: Jimmy Howard

By The Numbers will highlight the Red Wings on-ice accomplishments in the 2015-16 season. Each week during the off-season, By The Numbers will profile a different player on the team, focusing on their statistical highs. This week we focus on goalie Jimmy Howard.

It’s a future very much in limbo. After the worst season of his NHL career, Howard isn’t sure where he’ll be at the start of the 2016-17 season.

“We’ll wait and see what happens,” the veteran goalie said as the Red Wings cleaned out their locker room last month.

Howard started strong but then back-to-back catastrophes in late December led to a rough stretch for the 32-year-old goalie. He finished the season with a 14-14-5 record in a 33 starts, which is his single-season career low.

“That was more so on me, having the one bad game there against New Jersey and then Winnipeg and Petr (Mrazek) was playing hot and decided to go with the hot hand,” Howard said. “For me, it’s just controlling what I …

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