Which team has the best goaltender prospect depth?

[Archijerej]

With Lehtonen and Pavelec Atlanta deserves some love, no?

 

[GaryU]

OK, I'll bring up Chicago, who's very happy to have....
Leighton
Anderson
Crawford
Brodeur
Munro

 

[Maithz]

mtl has

price
danis
halak
heino-lindberg
michaud

 

[Mackee]

Pittsburgh and NYR have some nice depth. I like ours as well.

 

[007]

NYR:

-Al Montoya
-Henrik Lundqvist
-Chris Holt
-Steven Valiquette (sp?)
-Johan Asplund (don't know anything about him, only know he's in Rangers)
*Dan Blackburn -- could've been a great goalie, sad that a freak accident will probably cause him to retire at such a young age.

Johan Asplund barely deserves to be on that list. He's pretty much awful in Sweden -- doesn't even do well in tier 2 out there and he's not all that young. The Rangers have a great one-two top two with Montoya and Lundqvist both potential stars, and a decent prospect in Holt. There's no-one after that, though (poor Blackie doesn't count). That makes for good top end, but not much depth. Not that you need more than three quality goalies for an NHL team (starter, backup, fill-in from the AHL); however, soon we're going to want to stock up again.

VanIslander, good point on the Preds.

 

[Vatican Roulette]

With Lehtonen and Pavelec Atlanta deserves some love, no?

There's my choice. Those 2 alone will be #1 goalies IMO, and very good ones at that.

Runner up would have to be Montreal.

 

[Vatican Roulette]

OK, I'll bring up Chicago, who's very happy to have....
Leighton
Anderson
Crawford
Brodeur
Munro

Vert good depth, but i think most of them(except Anderson) have the potential to be back-ups.

 

[Guig]

1. Atlanta: Kari Lethonen, Ondrej Pavelec, Michael Garnett
2. NY Rangers: Henrick Lundqvist, Al Montoya
3. Montreal: Carey Price, Yann Danis, Jaroslav Halak, Chris Heino-Lindberg
4. Carolina: Cam Ward, Justin Peters, Kevin Natsiuk, Magnus Akerlund
5. Vancouver: Cory Schneider, Alexandre Vincent, Julien Ellis-Plante
6. Pittsburgh: Marc-Andre Fleury, Andy Chiodo
7. Boston: Hannu Toivonen, Jordan Sigalet
8. Edmonton: Devan Dubnyk, Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers
9. St. Louis: Marek Schwarz, Jason Bacashihua, Ben Bishop
10. Chicago: Corey Crawford, Adam Munro, Mike Brodeur

 

[GaryU]

Perhaps, though I'd be surprised if Corey Crawford doesn't turn out to be a #1. Maybe even Leighton.

 

[Skroob*]

1. Atlanta: Kari Lethonen, Ondrej Pavelec, Michael Garnett
2. NY Rangers: Henrick Lundqvist, Al Montoya
3. Montreal: Carey Price, Yann Danis, Jaroslav Halak, Chris Heino-Lindberg
4. Carolina: Cam Ward, Justin Peters, Kevin Natsiuk, Magnus Akerlund
5. Vancouver: Cory Schneider, Alexandre Vincent, Julien Ellis-Plante
6. Pittsburgh: Marc-Andre Fleury, Andy Chiodo
7. Boston: Hannu Toivonen, Jordan Sigalet
8. Edmonton: Devan Dubnyk, Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers
9. St. Louis: Marek Schwarz, Jason Bacashihua, Ben Bishop
10. Chicago: Corey Crawford, Adam Munro, Mike Brodeur

You cant leave Holt off your ranger list.

 

[Pangolin]

What? I never watch Nashville, but indicated them.

I'm a huge Canucks fan, but I think our goaltending depth stinks as usual. Even our is awful. Auld is the only one I have any faith in, and even then... little.

This is HFBoards... many of us are hockey fans first, homers second.

No need to undermine our judgements.

...To say Canucks prospect goaltending depth stinks is way off. Homer or not, 1/2 the league would trade their goalie prospects with ours. It should at least be above average.

 

[Cole Caulifield]

I like ours (Mtl), NYR and Van the most (not in order).

 

[The Hamburglar]

1. Ray Emery
2. Billy Thompson
3. Jeff Glass
4. Kelly Guard
5. Brian Elliot

Pretty decent IMO.

 

[Malakhov]

Atlanta, New York, Montreal and Pittsburgh are my favorites.

Lehtonen will be a beast, I just can feel it.

 

[zeke]

surprisingly, the leafs are starting to build themselves some nice goalie prospect depth.

T.Rask
J.Pogge
M.Tellqvist
J.Racine
T.Ford

 

[type_v]

Boston has to be at least top three

Raycroft
Toivonen
Sigalet
Brown
Kaltiainen
Regan
Thomas

Raycroft's a prospect???

 

[nneate]

New York Rangers gets my 1st vote
Runners up IMO are: Ottawa,Montreal,Vancouver
Following them: Carolina,Atlanta

 

[Jason MacIsaac]

New York Rangers gets my 1st vote
Runners up IMO are: Ottawa,Montreal,Vancouver
Following them: Carolina,Atlanta

Atlanta has the best top end goaltending prospects by far....Pavalec alone will be a great starter some bay....add in Lehtonen....who IMO is a better prospect then Luongo at the same age and you have a serious 1/2 combo for a few years.

 

[Meat Wave]

I'm trying to stay as unbiased as I can here, but IMO it is Montreal and Vancouver.

Carey Price
Yann Danis
Christopher Heino-Lindberg
Jaroslav Halak

Those are 4 solid prospects with NHL potential. Two of them could be solid starters, one has an outside chance at doing so, and the other one (Halak) will probably become a solid back-up goalie.

 

[nneate]

Atlanta has the best top end goaltending prospects by far....Pavalec alone will be a great starter some bay....add in Lehtonen....who IMO is a better prospect then Luongo at the same age and you have a serious 1/2 combo for a few years.

Sorry, forgot about Lehtonen as a prospect considering hes going to be their starting goaltender this year, and yes Pavalec is going to be a great starter, but I think Lundquist and Montoya will be a great starter some day as well.

To redecide with the consideration of Lehtonen still being a prospect(which he is)
I'll say its a tie between Atlanta and New York Rangers

 

[Poochie_D]

Like alot of posters said... montreals goaltending dept is very solid.

Carey Price
Yann Danis
Christopher Heino-Lindberg
Jaroslav Halak

Its not like any of these guys will ever get rushed... i heard this kid called Jose playing for the big club aint so bad

 

[AgentNaslund*]

in a non biased oppinon, im gonna say Vancouver.

Schnieder is probably gonna start for team USA this winter
Elllis was the best of the 3 goalies at Camp for Team Canada.

Potentially it be Ellis vs Schnieder, both Canuck prospects

Then we have Auld, who is as good as our number 1, DAn Cloutier.

 

[kruezer]

New York and Montreal are two that jump to mind

For a team that usually drafts pretty well, Anaheim as terrible depth in goal.
San Jose's goalie prospects are probably in the bottom tier of the league.

Dimitri Pätzold
Nolan Schaefer
Thomas Greiss
Patrick Ehelechner
Jason Churchill
Alex Stalock
Taylor Dakers
Brian Mahoney-Wilson
Derek MacIntyre

While the Sharks could quite possibly develop some of them into elite goaltenders like Nabakov and Kipprusoff, they don't have a Price or a Monotya; a goalie prospect that clearly has a very high upside. IMO, Greiss is the only prospect with a chance as a starter. Patzold, Dakers, Stalock, and Ehelechner both project to be excellent backups, but with the surfeit of quality goaltenders in the NHL, most, if not all of them will probably never play regularly in the NHL.

If Warren Strelow can get back on his feet, or if his Wayne Thomas can take his role as Sharks goaltending coach, I wouldn't be surprised to see these goalies' stocks rise quite a bit.

I don't mind the Sharks goaltending to be honest, I wouldn't be suprised if some of those cats turned out to be NHLers, San Jose is the best team in the league at picking overlooked goalies late and developing them properly, I hope Calgary can do the same with Spratt, Keetley and Lalande.

 

[mattihp]

San José always have surprises in the goalie department so I wouldn't sell the cards on Pätzold and his likes just yet.

 

[Legionnaire]

No question about it, the LA Kings have the best.