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Joel Hofer
St. Louis Blues Goaltender #30
Six shutouts, a .9088, and the second-best in the league at it.
| Season | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 46 | 24 | 13 | 5 | 114 | 2.61 | 6 | 1250 | .909 |
| Career | 115 | 59 | 35 | 10 | 283 | 2.67 | 8 | 3076 | .908 |
Last Season
Forty-six appearances, 24-13-5, a 2.61 goals-against average and a .9088 save percentage with six shutouts — one behind Ilya Sorokin for the most in the league. His career figure across 115 games is .9080.
Over his last ten appearances, .913 on 288 shots.
The Physical Game
Six foot five and 193 pounds, and he uses the height properly — he plays tall in his crease, takes away the top of the net, and does not drop early.
The lateral movement for a goaltender this long is genuinely good and the rebound control has improved every season. He is calm and does not chase.
The Mental Game
He took the net from a Conn Smythe winner by playing better than him for two seasons running, which is not a straightforward thing to do in this particular city.
The Intangibles
The split in this crease is the largest in the league. Hofer .9088 and 24-13-5; Binnington .8733 and 13-20-7, behind the same defence.
St. Louis conceded 174 goals at five-on-five against an expected 159.7 — its goaltending finished fourteen goals worse than its chances — and every one of those fourteen and more is on the other page.
He is 26, a fourth-round pick, and on the evidence of two seasons he is this club’s starting goaltender. The contract situation says otherwise, which is a problem the front office has been putting off.