HFBoards Top 20 NHL Goaltenders

Rank	Player	Age	Team	Country	W	SO	GAA	S%	%
#1	Andrei Vasilevskiy	25			39	6	2.40	.925	27.0%, 64.2% (TB)
#2	Carey Price	31			35	4	2.49	.918	27.0%, 35.8%(TB)
#3	John Gibson	26			26	2	2.84	.917	50.0%
#4	Sergei Bobrovsky	30			37	9	2.58	.913	65.7%
#5	Ben Bishop	32			27	7	1.98	.934	48.5%
#6	Tuukka Rask	32			27	4	2.48	.912	47.6%
#7	Braden Holtby	29			32	3	2.82	.911	26.2%,64.6%(TB)
#8	Frederik Andersen	29			36	1	2.77	.917	25.0%, 36.4%
#9	Marc-Andre Fleury	34			35	8	2.51	.913	50.0%
#10	Pekka Rinne	36			30	4	2.42	.918	39.5%
#11	Henrik Lundqvist	37			18	0	3.07	.907	18.6%
#12	Matt Murray	25			29	4	2.69	.919	19.4%
#13	Connor Hellebuyck	26			34	2	2.90	.913	23.0%, 54.3% (TB)
#14	Devan Dubnyk	33			31	2	2.54	.913	23.0%, 45.7% (TB)
#15	Robin Lehner	28			25	6	2.13	.930	32.1%
#16	Jordan Binnington	26			24	5	1.89	.927	45.9%
#17	Corey Crawford	34			14	2	2.93	.908	39.4%
#18	Antti Raanta	30			5	0	2.88	.906	37.7%
#19	Jonathan Quick	33			16	2	3.38	.888	38.8%
#20	Jacob Markstrom	29			28	1	2.77	.912	32.2%

Rank hyperlinks direct to the corresponding voting thread.
Player hyperlinks direct to the corresponding player's hockey-reference.com page.

Honorable Mentions

• Thomas Greiss
• Philipp Grubauer
• Jimmy Howard
• Darcy Kuemper
• Semyon Varlamov

 

This list is a million times better than the NHL.com list, that's for sure.

I don't really have any strong complaints with this list. Maybe there are a few guys getting votes based on what they used to be instead of what they are now, specifically Quick and Lundqvist, but those are just nitpicking.

 

Just so it’s here for reference, this is the list from nhl.com:

1. Vasilevskiy
2. Bobrovsky
3. Bishop
4. Price
5. Rask
6. Fleury
7. Holtby
8. Binnington
9. Rinne
10. Gibson

#NHLTopPlayers: Top 10 Goalies

 

very good list and very well run set of poll.

The goalie position is always a bit harder to rank as there's always so much fluctuation year to year

 

Lehner, Binnington... woah, recency bias much?

 

I mean, they came in 15th and 16th. Who do you think should be above them that wasn't voted above them?

Lehner also has a track record of success, he has a .919 save% in his 3 seasons as a starter in the NHL and a .919 save% overall through over 250 games.

 

Honestly, once we got past the top 10, the leftovers were rather uninspiring. There are a few who could move into that tier (Hellebuyck, Murray, Binnington, maybe Markstrom), but I would at most be content with them in net. Outside of Rinne (strictly due to age), I'd be very happy with anyone in the top 10.

 

I don't think there's a dramatic difference between anyone in the 8-15 range

That entire group just seems like the collection of above average starters. Nothing spectacular, but above average starters. I think people overstate the differences between guys in that range, any of those guys can outperform any of the others in any given year and have it not be surprising. All of those guys are around .913-.918 goalies, and some of them may have seasons a little bit better or worse. For example, Fleury is probably still better than Dubnyk, but the difference between those two is smaller than the difference between Fleury and someone like Bobrovsky.

 

If Raanta can stay healthy, he is easily a top 10 goalie, but that's a big if.

 

Good list but Price is not top-5

 

Vasilevskiy is a given. Which makes the list a bit boring. Discussing who's #2 isn't as much fun. I will say that Price & Bobrovskiy are overrated, as usual. Which is fine, because they've earned it. Bishop is underrated, as usual. I am rooting for Bishop to win the Vezina this season. I heard some stories about how he well he treated young Vasy, and can't help but admire the guy.