2024 Offseason Goalie Rankings #5

[Boreal01]

Vote for the best goalie from this list using whatever criteria you'd like to employ

1) Igor Shesterkin (42.6%)
2) Connor Hellebuyck (72.2%)
3) Juuse Saros (36.0%)
4) Thatcher Demko (27.6%)

To be added:

Tristan Jarry
Jacob Markstrom

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[jetsforever]

I think Vasi, Bobrovsky, Sorokin next

 

[KevinRedkey]

Bob
Ullmark
Sorokin
Otter
Vasi
Swayman

Those should be the next 6 (to round out the top 10) but the order is debatable IMO.

Voted Vasi.

 

[BKarchitect]

To me the criteria involves who is going to be the best next year, not who just had the best season. Goalies are such rollercoasters. I’m going with a huge bounce back season from Sorokin, who I have to image was #1 or #2 on this list a year ago (feel free to fact check). Up until his puzzling year last year, he was neck and neck with Shesty…and I don’t see any obvious reason this past year won’t have just been a blip on the radar.

I’d have him #2 with a bullet. I feel like Saros is getting a (justified) pass here but Sorokin for whatever reason, isn’t.

 

[Maurice of Orange]

My top ten is

1. Connor Hellebuyck
2. Igor Shesterkin
3. Juuse Saros
4. Sergei Bobrovsky
5. Jeremy Swayman
6. Thatcher Demko
7. Andrei Vasilevskiy
8. Linus Ullmark
9. Ilya Sorokin
10. Jake Oettinger

Hellebuyck with 2 Vezina’s within the last 5 seasons has to be top 2 for sure.

 

[GhostfaceWu]

How did saros goes third after the year he just had?

 

[Miro4Norris]

How did saros goes third after the year he just had?

Maybe because season before he was the best goalie in the league(advanced stats on his own class)and he's not getting old so it is reasonable to think it as a down year. But yeah I'm not sure if he's above Swayman..

I accidentally voted Sorokin instead of Sway btw.

 

[Boreal01]

I accidentally voted Sorokin instead of Sway btw.

I enabled changing for you

 

[KevinRedkey]

To me the criteria involves who is going to be the best next year, not who just had the best season. Goalies are such rollercoasters. I’m going with a huge bounce back season from Sorokin, who I have to image was #1 or #2 on this list a year ago (feel free to fact check). Up until his puzzling year last year, he was neck and neck with Shesty…and I don’t see any obvious reason this past year won’t have just been a blip on the radar.

I’d have him #2 with a bullet. I feel like Saros is getting a (justified) pass here but Sorokin for whatever reason, isn’t.

Last 3 years vezina finishes (Newest first):
Sorokin: 8 - 2 - 6
Vasi: 6 - 5 - 2
Bob: 3 - NA - NA
Swayman: 7 - NA - NA
Ullmark: 6 - 1 - NA
Otter: NA - 5 - NA

He's the arguments for each:
- Sorokin has arguably the best relevant/recent overall body of work
- Vasi is slightly under Sorokin but more hardware
- Bob just won a cup and also has 2 vezinas
- Swayman has the loveable combo of stats/potential
- Ullmark won a Vezina recently (unlike anyone remaining)
- Otter is a little like Swayman but has played actual full seasons

Here's the counter-arguments:
- Sorokin just wasn't that good last year
- Same thing as Sorokin
- Bob is wildly inconsistent year to year
- Swayman was a tandem goalie who's never played enough games
- Ullmark was a tandem goalie and is on a new (worse) team
- Otter hasn't really peaked as high as the others have

Different strokes for different folks is all it is...