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Adin Hill

Vegas Golden Knights Goaltender

A career .9096 across 136 games, and a .9091 across 35 of them last season.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2017-18ARI4130143.490129.891
2018-19ARI13750322.761322.901
2019-20ARI13243282.620343.918
2020-21ARI19991462.742530.913
2021-22SJS2510111612.662648.906
2022-23VGK271671622.500721.914
2023-24VGK3519122892.712979.909
2024-25 so far——————————
Career—136645183322.6873672.910

This Season So Far

The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

35 games, 19-12-2 with a .9091 and a 2.71, 2 shutouts, facing 979 shots.

That is almost exactly his career figure, in the largest workload anybody has given him. Nineteen wins in 35 games behind a club that finished twelfth in goals allowed.

The Physical Game

He is 6-4 and 222.

He is large and plays deep and square in the crease, covering the net by occupying it rather than by challenging the shooter. At that size the first shot is almost always taken care of, and the push across on the second one is the part that has to be watched.

The Mental Game

A career .9096 across 136 games with 7 shutouts.

He has been between .9059 and .9184 in five of his seven seasons and the two that were not were his first two. That is as settled a record as a goaltender who has never played forty games in a season can have.

The Intangibles

Seventy-sixth overall in 2015 by Arizona, seven seasons, and Vegas is his third organisation.

Sixty-four career wins against 51 losses in 136 games. He is 28, he has never played more than 35 games in a season, and this club has just handed him the crease anyway.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

  • a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
  • he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

  • plays-deepa strength· takes the net away by occupying it

    “He is large and plays deep and square in the crease, covering the net by occupying it rather than by challenging the shooter.”

  • lateral-recoveryhe lacks it· post-to-post, and across the slot

    “At that size the first shot is almost always taken care of, and the push across on the second one is the part that has to be watched.”