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Photo of NHL player Joel Hofer

St. Louis Blues Logo Joel Hofer

Position Goaltender Current Team St. Louis Blues
Catches Left Current Contract 2 years ($3.4M CapHit)
Height 6'5" Expires 2026-27
Weight (lbs) 193 Expiry Age (Jun 30) 26
Age (DOB) 25 (July 30, 2000) Expiry Status RFA-arb
Drafted 2018, Round 4, Overall 107 (STL)
Date Team Transaction
Jun 28, 2025 St. Louis Blues Signed 2 years @ $3.400M AAV starting in 2025-26
Jan 2, 2023 St. Louis Blues Signed 2 years @ $775K AAV starting in 2023-24
Mar 21, 2019 St. Louis Blues Signed to an entry level contract.
Status History Coming Soon

About Player Cards

Player cards present an infographic of a players performance using a series of Player Archetypes developed for Puckalytics.com and TheStanleyCap.com. The boxes in the rink image show the archetype ratings for the season specified in the card while the graphs to the right show the five-year trends for those archetypes.

Except for Faceoffs, the values shown are the players z-score (standard deviation from the mean) for the specific metric used to calculate the archetype values. When calculating z-scores forwards were compared to forwards and defensemen were compared to defensemen. Positive values indicate the player is above average and shaded in blue, while negative values indicate the player is below average and shaded in pink. The five year trend charts show a range of -4.0 to 4.0.

The value shown for Faceoffs is the faceoff winning percentage rather than their z-score with winning percentages below 50 in pink shades and above 50 in blue shades.

All archetypes are 5v5 except 5v4 TOI, 4v5 TOI, Skating (even strength) and Faceoffs (all situations). Archetypes use regular season data only.

Archetypes Summary
  • Sniper - Measures the to score above the expected goal rate.
  • Rebound - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rebounds (forwards only).
  • 5v4 TOI - Powerplay ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 5v4 ice time that the player was on the ice for.
  • Shooter - Measures whether a players points come from shots (goals or assists on rebounds from his shots).
  • Producer - Measures a players ability to produce goals and assists, adjusted for quality of teammates.
  • Playmaker - Measures whether a players points come from passes.
  • Drive - Measures a players ability to drive puck possession and generate shot attempts for his team.
  • Rush - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rush plays
  • Possession - An indicator of a players ability to improve his teams puck possession game.
  • Faceoffs - Faceoff Winning Percentage (min. 75 faceoffs taken).
  • 5v5 TOI - The percentage of his teams 5v5 TOI that the player was on the ice for.
  • Suppress - Measures a players ability to suppress opponent puck possession and shot attempts against.
  • Skating - An indicator of a players skating ability, or speed bursts above 20mph per mile skated.
  • Defend - An indicator of a players ability to suppress shot quality against.
  • 4v5 TOI - Penalty Kill ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 4v5 ice time that the player was on the ice for.
Data Sources
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5v5 Goalie Stats

Season Team(s) GP TOI SAA/60 SA/60 xGA/60 GA/60 GS/60 Sv% xSv% Sv%AE
2021-22 STL 2 91:17 36.15 22.35 1.87 1.97 -0.10 91.18 91.65 -0.47
2022-23 STL 6 236:50 43.32 32.43 2.57 1.52 1.05 95.31 92.07 3.24
2023-24 STL 30 1315:07 44.25 30.70 2.71 2.33 0.38 92.42 91.18 1.24
2024-25 STL 31 1383:29 39.81 26.98 2.21 1.99 0.22 92.60 91.81 0.80
2025-26 STL 46 2109:00 42.45 27.11 2.51 2.30 0.20 91.50 90.76 0.74

4v5 Goalie Stats

Season Team(s) GP TOI SAA/60 SA/60 xGA/60 GA/60 GS/60 Sv% xSv% Sv%AE
2021-22 STL 2 8:21 86.23 57.49 8.82 7.19 1.63 87.50 84.66 2.84
2022-23 STL 6 29:19 85.96 71.63 9.63 14.33 -4.70 80.00 86.56 -6.56
2023-24 STL 30 102:30 82.54 59.12 8.54 8.78 -0.24 85.15 85.55 -0.40
2024-25 STL 31 82:22 85.96 55.36 7.97 12.38 -4.41 77.63 85.60 -7.97
2025-26 STL 46 207:56 79.35 51.36 7.90 6.64 1.26 87.08 84.63 2.45

Legend

Percentile 0-25 Percentile 25-50 Percentile 50-75 Percentile 75-100

Glossary

Statistic Definition
SAA/60Shot Attempts Against per 60 minutes.
SA/60Shots Against per 60 minutes.
xGA/60Expected Goals Against per 60 minutes.
GA/60Goals Against per 60 minutes (lower is better).
GS/60Goals Saved per 60 minutes (xGA/60 -GA/60).
Sv%Save Percentage.
xSv%Expected Save Percentage.
Sv%AESave Percentage above Expected (Sv% - xSv%).
Data from Puckalytics.com (starting in 2015-16).

News and Opinions

Current Contract

Joel Hofer signed a $6,800,000 2-year contract with the St. Louis Blues and General Manager Doug Armstrong on June 28, 2025 with an AAV of $3,400,000. This contract will start in 2025-26 and end after the 2026-27 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 3.56% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (RFA) ( )  (0 ratings)

Season Age* Clause Cap Hit AAV Perf. Bonus Sign. Bonus Salary Compensation Minors Salary Status
2025-26 25 $3,400,000 $3,400,000 - - $3,400,000 $3,400,000 $3,400,000 RFA-arb
2026-27 26 $3,400,000 $3,400,000 - - $3,400,000 $3,400,000 $3,400,000 RFA-arb
Total - - $6,800,000 $6,800,000 $6,800,000
Signed: June 28, 2025
Team: St. Louis Blues
GM: Doug Armstrong
Exp. Status: RFA-arb
Cap %: 3.56

Previous Contracts (show) (hide)

Joel Hofer signed a $1,550,000 2-year contract with the St. Louis Blues and General Manager Doug Armstrong on January 2, 2023 with an AAV of $775,000. This contract will start in 2023-24 and end after the 2024-25 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 0.93% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (RFA) ( )  (0 ratings)

Season Age* Clause Cap Hit AAV Perf. Bonus Sign. Bonus Salary Compensation Minors Salary Status
2023-24 23 $775,000 $775,000 - - $775,000 $775,000 $775,000 RFA
2024-25 24 $775,000 $775,000 - - $775,000 $775,000 $775,000 RFA-arb
Total - - $1,550,000 $1,550,000 $1,550,000
Signed: Jan 2, 2023
Team: St. Louis Blues
GM: Doug Armstrong
Exp. Status: RFA-arb
Cap %: 0.93

Joel Hofer signed a $2,477,500 3-year contract with the St. Louis Blues and General Manager Doug Armstrong on March 21, 2019 with an AAV of $809,167. This contract will start in 2019-20 and end after the 2022-23 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 0.99% of the salary cap.

Entry Level Contract ( )  (0 ratings)

Season Age* Clause Cap Hit AAV Perf. Bonus Sign. Bonus Salary Compensation Minors Salary Status
2019-20 19 $809,167 $925,000 - $92,500 - $92,500 - ELC
2020-21 20 $795,000 $910,833 $132,500 $92,500 $700,000 $792,500 $70,000 ELC
2021-22 21 $795,000 $910,833 $132,500 $92,500 $750,000 $842,500 $70,000 ELC
2022-23 22 $795,000 $910,833 $82,500 - $750,000 $750,000 $70,000 ELC
Total $347,500 $277,500 $2,200,000 $2,477,500 $210,000
Signed: Mar 21, 2019
Team: St. Louis Blues
GM: Doug Armstrong
Exp. Status: RFA
Note: This entry level contract slid one season as player did not meet the games played threshold to start the contract.

Career Statistics

Regular Season Playoffs
Season League Team GP GS W L OTL SA GA GAA Sv% GP GS W L OTL SA GA GAA Sv%
2015-16 NAPHL 16U Pursuit of Excellence U16 AAA 12 2.92 0.890
2015-16 CSSHL U18 RINK Hockey Academy Kelowna U18 6 3 1 1 158 16 3.20 0.887
2015-16 CSSHL U17 RINK Hockey Academy Kelowna U17 15 12 3 413 26 1.74 0.937 2 3.50 0.879
2016-17 CSSHL U18 RINK Hockey Academy Kelowna U18 14 9 5 376 32 2.85 0.915 2 8.00 0.826
2016-17 NAPHL 18U Pursuit of Excellence U18 AAA 11 3.10 0.883 2 1.92 0.918
2017-18 WHL Swift Current Broncos 19 8 3 2 456 39 2.61 0.914 2 16 2 2.60 0.875
2018-19 AHL San Antonio Rampage 1 1 35 4 4.11 0.886
2018-19 WHL Portland Winterhawks 18 9 8 605 54 3.18 0.911 5 1 2 163 21 4.03 0.871
2018-19 WHL Swift Current Broncos 30 6 21 3 1257 121 4.02 0.904
2019-20 WHL Portland Winterhawks 48 34 8 5 1383 118 2.49 0.915
2019-20 WJC-20 Canada U20 6 5 148 9 1.30 0.946
2020-21 AHL Utica Comets 10 4 6 303 31 3.33 0.898
2021-22 NHL St. Louis Blues 2 2 1 1 50 6 3.07 0.880
2021-22 AHL Springfield Thunderbirds 39 18 14 2 1171 111 2.96 0.905 10 6 4 8 391 26 2.56 0.934
2022-23 NHL St. Louis Blues 6 6 3 1 1 179 17 3.22 0.905
2022-23 AHL Springfield Thunderbirds 47 27 15 5 1473 116 2.50 0.921 2 2 5 68 10 5.25 0.853
2023-24 NHL St. Louis Blues 30 30 15 12 1 830 72 2.65 0.914
2024-25 NHL St. Louis Blues 31 31 16 8 3 767 74 2.64 0.904
2025-26 NHL St. Louis Blues 46 46 24 13 5 1250 114 2.61 0.910
NHL Career 115 115 59 35 10 3076 283 2.67 0.909