Adin Hill

Last Season

Twenty-seven appearances, 10-9-6, a 3.04 goals-against average and a .8705 save percentage with one shutout.

That is the third-lowest figure of any goaltender in the league who appeared twenty times.

His career figure across 213 games is .9047, with 106 wins.

Over his last ten appearances, .879 on 224 shots.

The Physical Game

Six foot four, 222, and a large, positionally sound goaltender who plays deep and covers net rather than moving to it. When he is square he is very difficult to beat clean.

The lateral recovery is the weak point and it has got slower. Rebound control is ordinary.

The Mental Game

He won a Stanley Cup as an emergency starter three seasons ago and was excellent doing it, which is the reason this club has kept handing him the net.

Ten wins in twenty-seven appearances behind the team described below is a hard thing to explain any other way.

The Intangibles

This is the page that explains Vegas. The club finished 53.4 per cent in expected goals and allowed only 153 expected goals against — the fifth-fewest in the league.

It conceded 175. Its goaltending came in twenty-two goals worse than the chances it faced, second-worst in the league.

Three goaltenders played eight games or more and stopped .8705, .8910 and .8730. Not one reached .900 behind one of the five best defensive teams in the National Hockey League.

He is 30, and there is no other conclusion available: this is a Stanley Cup roster with a crease that lost it twenty-two goals.