Over the past 20 days, I've conducted a set of daily polls to roughly determine who HFBoards thought were the top 20 goaltending prospects in the NHL.
The requirements to be included were the goalie had to be under 25 years of age at the starting date of the first poll, and the goalie must have fewer than a total of 20 NHL games of experience.
In conclusion, these are the results:
#1: Carter Hart (PHI) [27.4%]
#2: Ilya Samsonov (WSH) [47.7%]
#3: Igor Shestyorkin (NYR) [34.7%]
#4: Ilya Sorokin (NYI) [32.5%]
#5: Thatcher Demko (VAN) [53.2%]
#6: Ville Husso (STL) [32.1%]
#7: Jake Oettinger (DAL) [32.8%]
#8: Filip Gustavsson (OTT) [22.0%]
#9: Colton Point (DAL) [23.5%]
#10: Michael DiPietro (VAN) [16.7%]
#11: Linus Soderstrom (NYI) [14.6%]
#12: Stuart Skinner (EDM) [31.3%]
#13: Tyler Parsons (CGY) [24.4%]
#14: Felix Sandstrom (PHI) [20.0%]
#15: Ukka-Pekka Luukkonen (BUF) [18.9%]
#16: Alexandar Georgiyev (NYR) [20.0%]
#17: Cayden Primeau (MTL) [30.0%]
#18: Kaapo Kahkonen (MIN) [17.9%]
#19: Jakub Skarek (NYI) [14.0%]
#20: Charlie Lindgren (MTL) [15.3%]
Also by calculating the amounts of votes all the other nominees had along the way, and taking into consideration the weight of each vote (which round they were cast), we can make a very rough estimation of the rest of the rankings:
#21: Alex Nedeljkovic (CAR)
#22: Joseph Woll (TOR)
#23: Elvis Merzlikins (CBJ)
#24: Olivier Rodrigue (EDM)
#25: Veini Vehvilainen (CBJ)
#26: Samuel Montembeault (FLA)
#27: Connor Ingram (TBL)
#28: Evan Fitzpatrick (STL)
#29: Eric Comrie (WPG)
#30: Marcus Hogberg (OTT)
#31: Griffen Outhouse (NA)
#32: Jeremy Swayman (BOS)
#33: Anthony Stolarz (PHI)
#34: Olle Eriksson Ek (ANA)
#35: Ivan Nalimov (CHI)
#36: Adam Huska (NYR)
#37: Cal Petersen (LAK)
#38: Filip Larsson (DET)
#39: Mackenzie Blackwood (NJD)
#40: Lukas Dostal (ANA)
#41: Michael McNiven (MTL)
#42: Daniel Vladar (BOS)
I hope this was interesting to you all. If you feel the results should have been different, or something I could have done to make this poll better, let me know.
The requirements to be included were the goalie had to be under 25 years of age at the starting date of the first poll, and the goalie must have fewer than a total of 20 NHL games of experience.
In conclusion, these are the results:
#1: Carter Hart (PHI) [27.4%]
#2: Ilya Samsonov (WSH) [47.7%]
#3: Igor Shestyorkin (NYR) [34.7%]
#4: Ilya Sorokin (NYI) [32.5%]
#5: Thatcher Demko (VAN) [53.2%]
#6: Ville Husso (STL) [32.1%]
#7: Jake Oettinger (DAL) [32.8%]
#8: Filip Gustavsson (OTT) [22.0%]
#9: Colton Point (DAL) [23.5%]
#10: Michael DiPietro (VAN) [16.7%]
#11: Linus Soderstrom (NYI) [14.6%]
#12: Stuart Skinner (EDM) [31.3%]
#13: Tyler Parsons (CGY) [24.4%]
#14: Felix Sandstrom (PHI) [20.0%]
#15: Ukka-Pekka Luukkonen (BUF) [18.9%]
#16: Alexandar Georgiyev (NYR) [20.0%]
#17: Cayden Primeau (MTL) [30.0%]
#18: Kaapo Kahkonen (MIN) [17.9%]
#19: Jakub Skarek (NYI) [14.0%]
#20: Charlie Lindgren (MTL) [15.3%]
Also by calculating the amounts of votes all the other nominees had along the way, and taking into consideration the weight of each vote (which round they were cast), we can make a very rough estimation of the rest of the rankings:
#21: Alex Nedeljkovic (CAR)
#22: Joseph Woll (TOR)
#23: Elvis Merzlikins (CBJ)
#24: Olivier Rodrigue (EDM)
#25: Veini Vehvilainen (CBJ)
#26: Samuel Montembeault (FLA)
#27: Connor Ingram (TBL)
#28: Evan Fitzpatrick (STL)
#29: Eric Comrie (WPG)
#30: Marcus Hogberg (OTT)
#31: Griffen Outhouse (NA)
#32: Jeremy Swayman (BOS)
#33: Anthony Stolarz (PHI)
#34: Olle Eriksson Ek (ANA)
#35: Ivan Nalimov (CHI)
#36: Adam Huska (NYR)
#37: Cal Petersen (LAK)
#38: Filip Larsson (DET)
#39: Mackenzie Blackwood (NJD)
#40: Lukas Dostal (ANA)
#41: Michael McNiven (MTL)
#42: Daniel Vladar (BOS)
I hope this was interesting to you all. If you feel the results should have been different, or something I could have done to make this poll better, let me know.
