He's not all that good this season for a great young goalie.
I don’t think he’s ever been particularly better than just good or solid. Outside of a 7 game playoff series where his team didn’t even win.
Since moneypuck gives expected save percentages and it's less typing than all of the GSAx numbers, his expected save percentage this year was .904%, actual save percentage .905%.
22-23: Expected save percentage of .915%, actual save percentage .919%.
21-22: expected save percentage of .913%, Actual save percentage of .914%.
20-21: Expected save percentage of .915%. Actual save percentage: of .911%.
His playoffs in 2022 superhuman, but his playoffs last year in close to three times as many games played were HORRIBLE.
For evolving hockey he was at +1.46 GSAx this year, which is right around where he was on moneypuck's model.
22-23 evolving hockey really likes him that year. +21.65 GSAx. Way better than he was on moneypuck's model for that year.
21-22: +0.51 GSAx, which is nearly what he was on moneypuck's model that year.
20-21: -2.14 GSAx, which is about similar enough to what he was on moneypuck's model that year.
In conclusion, I don't think Oettinger was EVER a particularly good goalie. He's probably an above average goalie, but not a really good and defiinitely not a great one. He's still only 25 and he's shown to be able to play a lot of games and be a real workhorse when healthy. But Scott Wedgewood has similar numbers to him the last few years, albeit in a much smaller number of games played. The cremains of Braden Holtby (which have been MIA ever since) had similar number to him that year they played together, despite very poor numbers for Holtby the several years before this on the Capitals and Canucks.
Goalies have been posting better numbers under Bowness since he became a head coach again and the same can be said about DeBoer.
And one other thing to also consider. Goalies have been overachieving in Dallas for a while. Bishop did when he was missing body parts, His actual save percentage wasn't much higher than his expected save percentage the year they were crying about him being snubbed for the Vezina. Khudobin, who was a mediocre goalie also had that run to the finals there when he was 34 years old and posted far better numbers there than anywhere else, until he had bad hips after that year. They also have a really good goalie coach, for what it's worth. Must be nice.
I think I gave a pretty good seminar on why Oettinger is overrated.