This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Akira Schmid
Vegas Golden Knights Goaltender
Six-five and 190 pounds, and a .9216 across 18 games two seasons ago.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | NJD | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 19 | 4.83 | 0 | 114 | .833 |
| 2022-23 | NJD | 18 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 32 | 2.13 | 1 | 408 | .922 |
| 2023-24 | NJD | 19 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 48 | 3.15 | 0 | 457 | .895 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 43 | 14 | 18 | 3 | 99 | 2.90 | 1 | 979 | .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.