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Akira Schmid

Vegas Golden Knights Goaltender

Six-five and 190 pounds, and a .9216 across 18 games two seasons ago.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2021-22NJD6040194.830114.833
2022-23NJD18952322.131408.922
2023-24NJD19591483.150457.895
2024-25 so far——————————
Career—4314183992.901979.899

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

19 games with New Jersey, 5-9-1 with an .8950 and a 3.15, no shutouts, facing 457 shots.

That is the middle of his three figures, and five wins against nine losses in 19 games is what a club does with a goaltender it is no longer sure about.

The Physical Game

He is 6-5 and 190 pounds, the tallest goaltender on this roster and the lightest on it.

He covers an enormous amount of net standing up and plays a patient, deep game that lets the shot come to him. The frame is the asset and the strength is not yet there to hold position in a scramble at that height.

The Mental Game

A career .8989 across 43 games with 1 shutout.

An .8333 in six games, a .9216 in eighteen and an .8950 in nineteen is a goaltender whose whole NHL record is forty-three games. There is not enough here to conclude anything in either direction.

The Intangibles

One hundred and thirty-sixth overall in 2018 by New Jersey, three seasons, and Vegas will be his second organisation.

Fourteen career wins against 18 losses in 43 games. He is 24, he was a fifth-round pick out of Switzerland, and he is arriving to be the second goaltender on a club that has three of them.

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 covers an enormous amount of net standing up and plays a patient, deep game that lets the shot come to him.”

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

    “The frame is the asset and the strength is not yet there to hold position in a scramble at that height.”