Quoting: mokumboi
Wow, you're really invested in this. Dude, Hofer was a rookie backup this season and was always going to be a rookie backup until Binnington got hurt, which did not happen. What benchmark do you expect to him to meet here? Feel free to find all those people out there who think Schmid is better or as good or worth near as much, or whomever thought that at any time since they were drafted. He never has been higher rated, even when he had a couple brief hot spells. None of it changes my main point, which has nothing to do with how good Schmid is or isn't.
Besides, you and I both know that if you need to cling so tightly to "days of rest" stats for guys with 38 and 43 regular season NHL games, respectively, you're really scraping the bottom of the evidence barrel. Schmid has started back to back nights exactly TWO times in the NHL - the first time he got friggin shelled by San Jose (five goals on 17 shots!!) and the second time he gave up four to lose to Anaheim. This is not the boast you seem to think it is.
And who the hell asked for two 1sts for Hofer? I have no idea where that came from.
Yes, and those 2 times have tanked schmids stats. If Schmid was getting the kind of rest that HOFer gets (backup rest), his results would be much better.
But again, I have not said Schmid was worth more than Hofer in a trade.
The point was to illustrate that Hofer is not special. Every single fanbase in hockey is combined that whatever goalie they have under 25 is a sure thing to become a stud.
Ersson, Pyotr, Dostal, woll, cossa, Schmid, daws, Silovs, Bussi, Fowler, Wolf, Levi, and 100 other guys. And each of their fanbases is CONVINCED they’ll all be sure things. Heck even you showed it more by assuming the next 2 goalies AFTER HOFer are also sure things to make it.
Every team has one of these goalies. And every fanbase is convinced that their crapshoot goalie is better than everyone else’s crapshoot goalie. They don’t fetch much in trades if you try and sell them.
And so teams simply keep them and play the lottery on it.
Or, if they try to get sold, you see prices like Adin Hill to SJS, Vitek acquired by Washington after Seattle took him in expansion, etc etc.
But hey, Schmid’s 0.922 27 games last year=flash in the pan doesn’t count
And Hofer .914 30 games this year=totally legit and sustainable this is the bare minimum going forward
Hofer went in the 4th, Schmid in the 5th. Pretending you’ve got Askarov or Wallstedt out here lmao.
Frankly going into next year I’d prefer Schmid because his waiver exemption allows you to hold 3 NHL ready goalies in case of injury, while you are locked into just 2 options with Hofer, with your 3rd option being a guy who will pass through waivers