HFBoards Top 20 Goaltenders - #8

[LT]

Rank	Player	Votes	Team	GP	W	S%	GAA
1	Andrei Vasilevskiy	73/105 (70%)	Tampa Bay Lightning	63	39	.916	2.49
2	Igor Shesterkin	182/215 (85%)	New York Rangers	53	36	.935	2.07
3	Juuse Saros	63/173 (36%)	Nashville Predators	67	38	.918	2.64
4	Ilya Sorokin	45/136 (33%)	New York Islanders	52	26	.925	2.40
5	Connor Hellebuyck	71/167 (43%)	Winnipeg Jets	66	29	.910	2.97
6	Thatcher Demko	63/161 (39%)	Vancouver Canucks	64	33	.915	2.72
7	Jacob Markstrom	76/106 (72%)	Calgary Flames	63	37	.922	2.22
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To add:
Jack Campbell
Ville Husso
Jordan Binnington
Jeremy Swayman
Carey Price (maybe...)

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[Sergei Shirokov]

Gibson then Andersen are the next 2 for me

 

[tarheelhockey]

We're at 8 and this is where we're already at.

woof

This is about normal for goalie depth. Pick any given season and check who was considered the 8th best goalie at the time. It’s usually not some superstar.

 

[BlueBaron]

A bit surprised Sorokin came in so high.

 

[Buck Naked]

Gibson then Andersen are the next 2 for me

Why Gibson?

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

Why Gibson?

Still a great goalie imo.

Being on a bad team for awhile has an effect both on perception & waning performance, but if it was a fantasy draft or your trading to add a goalie to your playoff team I'd take Gibson.

 

[Buck Naked]

Still a great goalie imo.

Being on a bad team for awhile has an effect both on perception & waning performance, but if it was a fantasy draft or your trading to add a goalie to your playoff team I'd take Gibson.

What's he done that's been great the last few years? Shouldn't goalies who perform well on bad teams be viewed as better though? A good goalie on a bad team must be better than a bad goalie on a bad team. Especially over three seasons.

It's been said in this thread and previous ones. Gibson is by far the most overrated goalie in the league and lives only on reputation.

 

[Bleedred]

What's he done that's been great the last few years? Shouldn't goalies who perform well on bad teams be viewed as better though? A good goalie on a bad team must be better than a bad goalie on a bad team. Especially over three seasons.

It's been said in this thread and previous ones. Gibson is by far the most overrated goalie in the league and lives only on reputation.

Quoted for truth.

He's also a negative in goals saved above expected in all 3 of those years.

There are goalies on bad teams, where it's hurt their save percentage and negatively impacted their save percentage to be below the league average, yet still have a positive in goals saved above expected.

Gibson is not one of those in any of those last 3 years.

Stolarz in much more limited action had a positive in both save percentage and goals saved above expected behind the same team. Ryan Miller barely broke below even in goals saved above expected and broke dead even in save percentage in 19-20 behind the same team Gibson was a negative on. However, Miller was considerably worse than Gibson in 20-21, but he was also 40 years old and burnt crispity by that point.

Now, do I think these guys would have fared as well as they did if they had played Gibson's workload/number of games/minutes played? Probably not. But they still performed average to above average, albeit, in limited action while Gibson has not.

 

[Dion TheFluff]

this was a close one. Really wide open now...