Jordan Binnington

Last Season

Forty-one appearances, 13-20-7, a 3.33 goals-against average and a .8733 save percentage with one shutout. That is the lowest figure of any goaltender in the league who appeared forty times.

His career figure across 377 games is .9034, with 186 wins.

Over his last ten appearances, .898 on 244 shots — better, and still under the league median.

The Physical Game

Six foot two and 172 pounds, which is very light for a modern goaltender, and it shows when traffic arrives: he is moved in his crease and loses his post.

The athleticism is real and the technique has always been unorthodox — he battles rather than positions, which produces both the saves he is famous for and the goals he is not.

The Mental Game

This is the whole career. He won a Stanley Cup as a rookie at twenty-five, on a club that was last in the league in January, and he has been the most emotionally visible goaltender in the sport ever since.

There is no scouting instrument for what he did in 2019 and there is no arguing with a .8733 either.

The Intangibles

St. Louis finished fourteen goals worse than the chances its goaltenders faced. Hofer, in five more appearances, stopped .9088.

That is a thirty-five-thousandth gap behind the same defence, over a full season, and it is the single largest difference between two goaltenders on one club in this edition.

He is 33. The 2019 banner does not come down, and neither does this number.