"Facetious" doesn't really fit in that sentence. But, yeah, Hodge is being a little too kind to Thomas.
Hodge won the back-half of the Hart voting in 1964 (43 votes to Howe's 40). And was the number one goalie in MVP voting by a considerable margin. Hodge follows up in 1965 by placing 2nd in MVP voting in the first half of the season, finishing 5th overall (first among all Montreal players, which says plenty).
Hodge is fighting off guys like Glenn Hall, Terry Sawchuk, Johnny Bower for votes in net alone...
Thomas is fighting off...what...Lundqvist and Luongo...there is a major dearth in talent in net around that time, so he was uncontested and still didn't really runaway with anything relatively speaking...
Thomas received no first place votes in 2009 and was not the first goalie in Hart trophy voting even (Steve Mason) and Chara, his lifeblood, received a similar amount of MVP votes.
In Thomas' record breaking* (?) season in 2011, there was also not a ton of interest in his MVP candidacy. One first place vote (Jack Edwards?) and again not even the top goalie in MVP voting (Rinne). He wasn't particularly close to Corey Perry or Daniel Sedin...in what is clearly a very, very weak MVP class. One of the weakest I can recall.
In 2009, he won the Vezina handily against studs like rookie Steve Mason and below average starter Niklas Backstrom...the second best Nick Backstrom that has played in the NHL in the last decade...
In 2011, when he had all the save pct. hype and whatever, the GMs were not overly impressed. Despite a 2.00 and a .938, he only received 17 of 30 first place votes. He didn't even appear on four ballots. He edged out Pekka Rinne by a small margin.
The people more predisposed to being wowed by highlights and averaging stats were won over, as you might imagine, as the media heaped praise on him with 92 first place votes for the all-star team...which he coasted to with twice as many points over Rinne.
For comparison, in 2010, Ryan Miller - who had a fine season, but nothing terribly noteworthy in another weak year for goaltending - nabbed 23 of 30 first place votes and appeared on 28 ballots of 30 with his 2.22/.929 season. He got more love from the GMs (rightfully so) because he was dealt a much tougher hand than Thomas, as the talent evaluators knew it. Unlike Thomas in a 30-team league with backups, Hodge was actually able to hang around in the league even during the O6 days. In fact, his best seasons came when the league felt it had enough talent to double the amount of the clubs in one season. So, yeah, Hodge is too kind to Thomas...who would have never made a 21-team league with backups, much less a six-team with few.
