HFBoards Top 25 Goalies in the NHL - Results

[MasterMatt25]

Here are the results of the polls of the top 25 goaltenders in the NHL currently, as voted by you, the HFBoards community:

1. Igor Shesterkin (34.9%)
2. Andrei Vasilevskiy (46.5%)
3. Ilya Sorokin (75.0%)
4. Juuse Saros (45.5%)
5. Connor Hellebuyck (56.4%)
6. Jake Oettinger (56.7%)
7. Linus Ullmark (56.8%)
8. Thatcher Demko (39.3%)
9. Tristan Jarry (22.7%)
10. Sergei Bobrovsky (21.8%)
11. Filip Gustavsson (51.7%) *tiebreaker*
12. Darcy Kuemper *tiebreaker*
13. Jeremy Swayman (26.5%)
14. John Gibson (27.9%)
15. Frederik Andersen (31.9%)
16. Alexandar Georgiev (28.6%)
17. Jacob Markstrom (33.3%)
18. Karel Vejmelka :coyotes (23.5%)
19. Carter Hart (25.9%)
20. Ilya Samsonov (22.2%)
21. Semyon Varlamov (34.8%)
22. Joonas Korpisalo (23.1%)
23. Vitek Vanecek (20.6%)
24. Philipp Grubauer (50.0%) *tiebreaker*
25. Stuart Skinner *tiebreaker*


Honourable mentions:
26. Adin Hill
27. Jordan Binnington
28. Ville Husso
29. Logan Thompson
30. Antti Raanta
31. Samuel Montembeault
32. Marc-Andre Fleury
33. Elvis Merzlikins
34. Anton Forsberg

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[Pavel Buchnevich]

Swayman is way underrated. Top 10 for sure. Samsonov is also way underrated. I get he’s had an erratic career so far, but last season was very good and he could be an eventual Vezina winner. He’s that good when he’s on. I would struggle to leave him out of the top 15.

Surprised HF got it right on Jarry. I see him get so much criticism, and he still posts solid numbers like every year. It’s not saying much, but he’s the best Canadian goalie.

Some of the dudes at the bottom of that list are only being ranked because they are starters for terrible teams. Give me Levi, Wolf, Dostal, and a few others over a bunch of them. We regularly see goalies step in as rookies and crush it, so there’s value there that’s not being given its due at the bottom of that list.

 

[mattihp]

Finnish goaltending sure has gone down the toilet.

 

[CDJ]

Russian goaltending in another stratosphere rn

They’ve always had a good goalie or two in the league but i can’t recall them having 7 top 21 goalies

 

[Ianturnedbull]

Here are the results of the polls of the top 25 goaltenders in the NHL currently, as voted by you, the HFBoards community:

1. Igor Shesterkin (34.9%)
2. Andrei Vasilevskiy (46.5%)
3. Ilya Sorokin (75.0%)
4. Juuse Saros (45.5%)
5. Connor Hellebuyck (56.4%)
6. Jake Oettinger (56.7%)
7. Linus Ullmark (56.8%)
8. Thatcher Demko (39.3%)
9. Tristan Jarry (22.7%)
10. Sergei Bobrovsky (21.8%)
11. Filip Gustavsson (51.7%) *tiebreaker*
12. Darcy Kuemper *tiebreaker*
13. Jeremy Swayman (26.5%)
14. John Gibson (27.9%)
15. Frederik Andersen (31.9%)
16. Alexandar Georgiev (28.6%)
17. Jacob Markstrom (33.3%)
18. Karel Vejmelka :coyotes (23.5%)
19. Carter Hart (25.9%)
20. Ilya Samsonov (22.2%)
21. Semyon Varlamov (34.8%)
22. Joonas Korpisalo (23.1%)
23. Vitek Vanecek (20.6%)
24. Philipp Grubauer (50.0%) *tiebreaker*
25. Stuart Skinner *tiebreaker*


Honourable mentions:
26. Adin Hill
27. Jordan Binnington
28. Ville Husso
29. Logan Thompson
30. Antti Raanta
31. Samuel Montembeault
32. Marc-Andre Fleury
33. Elvis Merzlikins
34. Anton Forsberg

What is your criteria for this list? It's certainly not sv%.

 

[NyQuil]

What is your criteria for this list? It's certainly not sv%.

The criteria are in the first sentence of the post.

 

[Peasy]

Crazy theres not even really 10 elite consistent starters. Things get really muddy after 7.

 

[HabzSauce]

Crazy theres not even really 10 elite consistent starters. Things get really muddy after 7.

It's crazy lol. For me it's after #6. Everyone after that is just MEH

 

[Aurinko]

Its not bad list, but no Akira even if Merzlikins gets on the boards.. Hmm...

 

[Shane Diesel]

Gibson in the top 25 is a crime against humanity.

 

[Tufted Titmouse]

Swayman is way underrated. Top 10 for sure.

Time to lay off the bottle, my friend.

 

[GrumpyKoala]

Crazy theres not even really 10 elite consistent starters. Things get really muddy after 7.

And extremely worrying after 18

Make sens thoo, at 32 teams
If your starter is in the bottom half of the league, you are on for a rough ride.

 

[Ianturnedbull]

The criteria are in the first sentence of the post.

Yeah. Is there anything else to talk about?

 

[Bear of Bad News]

We regularly see goalies step in as rookies and crush it, so there’s value there that’s not being given its due at the bottom of that list.

We also regularly see goalies step in as rookies and show that they aren't ready yet.

 

[BlueOil]

outside the top 5, it's a mix of one-hit wonders, every-other-season wonders, and can get hot goalies. starting goaltending talent is hard to come by

 

[Shane Diesel]

Surprised HF got it right on Jarry. I see him get so much criticism, and he still posts solid numbers like every year. It’s not saying much, but he’s the best Canadian goalie.

Statistically speaking, Kuemper blows Jarry out of the water the last half-decade.

He should be at nine ahead of Bobrovsky, Jarry and Gustavsson.

 

[x Tame Impala]

Goaltending in this era seems pretty lackluster compared to the rest of the post-lockout years.

 

[FromChaos22]

Is Demko really 8th?

 

[RememberTheName]

Goaltending around the league is definitely at a low point it seems. List looks fine for the most part. As a Devils fan, I take Akira Schmid well over Vitek Vanicek, so that's definitely a gripe with the list I have. I'd actually take Schmid over a couple of the guys in the 20s as well, but I know that's a bit of an unpopular opinion around these parts because he's not "proven".

 

[Aurinko]

Is Demko really 8th?

I'd give it a pass.

Demko is the only goalie that I remember seriously carrying a series win after 2016-17 Jake Allen. And I dont mean couple amazing saves in one game, I mean just carrying several games for a team that had no business being there.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Time to lay off the bottle, my friend.

It'll be clear by the end of the upcoming season that he's better than Ullmark.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Statistically speaking, Kuemper blows Jarry out of the water the last half-decade.

He should be at nine ahead of Bobrovsky, Jarry and Gustavsson.

I don't think it's necessarily a huge difference, as none of them are that good, but a few things I think work in Jarry's favor. Jarry has never had a "bad" season in the NHL. Kuemper's been more erratic, and his reputation didn't start picking up until he was Jarry's current age. I think Kuemper is very much at the end of his effectiveness as an NHL starter, while Jarry is very much in his prime.

 

[HabzSauce]

Goaltending in this era seems pretty lackluster compared to the rest of the post-lockout years.

In the last era alone we had Price, quick, rinne, Holtby, Rask, Crawford, Miller, Luongo, Bobrovsky, Lundqvist, Fleury, Bishop to name a few.

Heck even some other guys outside the elite like Andersen, Howard, Smith etc were pretty good.

You're absolutely right that it's been lackluster compared to the previous era

 

[Shane Diesel]

I don't think it's necessarily a huge difference, as none of them are that good, but a few things I think work in Jarry's favor. Jarry has never had a "bad" season in the NHL. Kuemper's been more erratic, and his reputation didn't start picking up until he was Jarry's current age. I think Kuemper is very much at the end of his effectiveness as an NHL starter, while Jarry is very much in his prime.

GSAx rank courtesy of moneypuck.com (min. 10 games played):

Kuemper:

22/23 - 16
21/22 - 5
20/21 - 24
19/20 - 6
18/19 - 13

Jarry:

22/23 - 48
21/22 - 11
20/21 - 57
19/20 - 27
18/19 - N/A

Cumulative standard stats from nhl.com over the past five years (min. 15 games played):

Kuemper: 10th in SV%, 4th in SO
Jarry: 19th in SV%, 14th in SO

Kuemper is clearly the superior goaltender while Jarry is more erratic.

 

[x Tame Impala]

In the last era alone we had Price, quick, rinne, Holtby, Rask, Crawford, Miller, Luongo, Bobrovsky, Lundqvist, Fleury, Bishop to name a few.

Heck even some other guys outside the elite like Andersen, Howard, Smith etc were pretty good.

You're absolutely right that it's been lackluster compared to the previous era

It showed in the playoffs too. I don't know if it's new equipment or a new league wide play-style or something but there was a lot of average at best goaltending last postseason