Joel Hofer

Joel Hofer

G · Left catchesAge 266'5" · 197 lbWinnipeg, Canada
cap hit$3.4M2-year extensionsigned June 28, 2025contract ledger →

Wins by season

Career NHL wins, ending with the projection at a 60-start workload (violet).

22: 1 pts12223: 3 pts324: 15 pts152425: 16 pts1626: 24 pts242632PROJ27: 7 pts (projected 32)27

Pool value

Projected full-season fantasy worth.

83/100
why 83?

Every fantasy goalie category, scored on the season model's projections at a 60-start workload:

  • proj wins32 × 4.5+144
  • proj shutouts2.8 × 3+8.4
  • SV% 0.894 vs .900-0.006 × 250-1.5
  • GAA 3.06 vs 2.70-0.36 × 50-18
  • total133 pool points  ·  an elite goalie season scores 160133 = 83/100

Weights: a win is worth 4.5 (the heaviest goalie category in every format), a shutout 3, SV% pays 250 per full point above .900 and GAA pays 50 per hundredth below 2.70. 100 = a Vezina-tier season (~26 W, 6 SO, .918, 2.45). Projections shrink SV% toward career and league averages because save percentage repeats poorly year to year; wins lean on team quality for the same reason.

Season stats — goaltending

NHL regular-season goaltending numbers from the league's goalie feed — wins, GAA, save% and shutouts, season by season. Skater columns (G/A/P) would be all zeros for a goalie, so they're gone. The 60-start proj line is a model, not a pace: save% is projected with empirical-Bayes shrinkage toward career and league (save% is weakly repeatable — Schuckers 2016; a James–Stein study on NHL save% found shrinkage beats the raw estimate 2.2× in error), GAA is rebuilt from its SA/60 × (1−SV%) identity, shutouts are the Poisson zero probability at the projected goals-against rate (Buttrey & Washburn, JQAS 2011), and wins are regressed toward the league per-start rate because wins are mostly a team stat (Berri & Brook 2010). Backtested on 330 goalie seasons from our own data: 26% lower save% error and 16% lower GAA error than naive last-year pace. Hockey's honest truth: save% barely repeats, so this model shrinks hard on purpose.

SeasonTeamGPGSWLOTGAASV%SO
21-22STL221103.0788.0%0
22-23STL663113.2290.5%0
23-24STL3027151212.6591.4%1
24-25STL312816832.6490.4%1
25-26STL4643241352.6191.0%6
26-27STL13137512.3392.0%1
60-start projSTL6060322253.0689.4%2.8

Data via the public NHL API · 2026 Pro Hockey Stats