Reimer is the worst goalie in the NHL

[Howe Elbows 9]

2017-18 NHL Goalie Statistics | Hockey-Reference.com

This season is still quite early, so I referred to last season. So far this season, Mike Smith is in stiff competition with Matt Murray and Calvin Pickard. Darling is lagging behind by being roughly league-average, but it's just 7 games for him. He still has time to work on being the worst.

2018-19 NHL Goalie Statistics | Hockey-Reference.com

I think it's really interesting that Greiss was -17.85 in GSAA last season, and is currently at +7.81 .

 

[7even]

Matt Murray says hey.

At least Reimer isn’t on IR for mental issues

Don't think there's anything wrong with taking some personal time to get your head straight. It's the intelligent move for the player and the team if it's indeed a problem.

Reimer isn't very pretty but he's got like what an .895? Not even close to the worst goalie in the league. Not close to the best, either, but hey.

 

[shelf]

Wait, wasn't someone trying to claim he was on track to be on track with Price just 3 years ago? Lets get real here the guy is amazing.

Price lasts 100 games 2.88 GAA, .905 SV%
Reimer last 100 games 2.84 GAA, .914

 

[Kennedys]

Mike Condon takes the prize.

We had this guy has our #1 goalie in 2015-16 xD

 

[CookiesAndMilk]

I'm just sitting here and wondering, why seemingly every team in the NHL has the worst goaltender? There are just too many threads

 

[torniojaws]

I'm just sitting here and wondering, why seemingly every team in the NHL has the worst goaltender? There are just too many threads

It's probably the new equipment size regulations. It seems to have exposed a ton of goalies. For example by GSAA:

Raanta, 2017-18 was 24.82 GSAA, and 2018-19 is 0.20 GSAA
Hellebuyck, 2017-18 was 23.75, and 2018-19 is 0.45
Fleury, 2017-18 was 20.77, and 2018-19 is 2.09
Crawford, 2017-18 was 13.9, and 2018-19 is 2.23

I left out some goalies who didn't have a reasonable amount of games this season.

And if you check the reverse - goalies that are fairly equal or better than last season:

Rinne, 27.49 and 13.77 (the highest GSAA of goalies this season)
Gibson, 25.30 and 11.41
Vasilevskiy, 15.12 and 7.59
Andersen, 12.06 and 13.38 (one of the few to have better GSAA than last year!)
Varlamov, 11.99 and 7.88

So, relatively speaking, Andersen has been the best goalie this season, so far. Followed by Rinne and Gibson, who have suffered - especially relatively - compared to their last season.

Edit:
Oh and speaking of Reimer:
2017-18 GSAA: 0.51
2018-19 GSAA: -4.89

So definitely average

 

[CookiesAndMilk]

It's probably the new equipment size regulations. It seems to have exposed a ton of goalies.

That and the hyperbole of HFBoards probably.

Edit: I saw your edit and raise you mine. Thx for the insight.

 

[airbus220]

I think most people agree that Reimer is not a starter.
I'm sure most problems start when goalies are used with starter workloads.
I believe that Reimer is good enough to play every second game.

In games FLA didn't win this season Reimer has .911 EVsv%. Only 8 starter are better than that.