Most Underrated Goalie in the League

[BumDum]

Who is the most underrated goalie in the league? Koskinen and Grubauer are definitely up there.

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[Foppberg]

Crawford

 

[Fisticuffer]

Gibson is my choice.
HM to Kuemper

 

[Canuck Luck]

Who is the most underrated goalie in the league? Koskinen and Grubauer are defiantly up there.

Dude couldnt even keep the starting role from a 37 yr old Mike Smith, in what world is he underrated?

EDIT: Ahh I see, Oilers fan made the thread. Grubauer is up there for sure

 

[McDNicks17]

Maybe not the most underrated, but Linus Ullmark is really good and doesn't get much press.

 

[Fatass]

Anderson in Toronto. What was his save % against Columbus, .936? And he gets blamed for the Leaf’s losing. I think he’s grossly underrated.

 

[McDNicks17]

Dude couldnt even keep the starting role from a 37 yr old Mike Smith, in what world is he underrated?

EDIT: Ahh I see, Oilers fan made the thread. Grubauer is up there for sure

Kind of proving his point haha.

Only Rask, Helle, Bishop and Markstrom played more games and had a higher SV% than Koskinen this season, but most people will try to tell you he was trash.

 

[aufheben]

Bernier.

 

[LeafsNation75]

Anderson in Toronto. What was his save % against Columbus, .936? And he gets blamed for the Leaf’s losing. I think he’s grossly underrated.

Yes the Leafs could have done better in that series by scoring goals when they were eliminated in Game 5 to have helped Andersen. However the problem is he has a history for allowing bad goals at the wrong time. For example this was the game winning goal in Game 1 he allowed when the score was 0-0 in the 3rd period, which he admitted was a type of shot he should never have allowed to get past him.

 

[RABBIT]

Kuemper

 

[Langdon Alger]

Anderson in Toronto. What was his save % against Columbus, .936? And he gets blamed for the Leaf’s losing. I think he’s grossly underrated.

So unappreciated you don’t even know how to spell his name.

 

[Canuck Luck]

Kind of proving his point haha.

Only Rask, Helle, Bishop and Markstrom played more games and had a higher SV% than Koskinen this season, but most people will try to tell you he was trash.

Easy to cherry pick stats when you go by that kind of criteria. Of course the less sample size a goalie has the more likely he’s going to do better because consistency isn’t needed. That’s why there’s some goalies that excel as backups (see Khudobin and allen) but can never be starters in the nhl.

Of all the goalies to play more games than Pavel Francouz, only 1 (Rask) had a higher save % than him. Francouz only played in 4 less games than koskinen.

better yet of all goalies to play more games than Khudobin, no one had a higher save %. See how the less and less games played gets, the better and better goalies stats get if they are 1B material?

Based off your cherry picked stats, Jake allen must be the most underrated goalie in all of the nhl. he put up much better numbers than binnington and was a top goalie in the playoffs before being eliminated. At such a modest 4.35M people still view him as a cap dump. How could people think that of a goalie putting up top 5 goalie stats.

 

[Louie the Blue]

Craig Anderson (3 years ago).

Now? Probably Markstrom, Mrazek, or Lehner.

I’m going with Lehner the more I think about it.

 

[Benedict Kovalchuk]

I feel like Greiss has been pretty underrated for his entire career. He, more than Tavares, was the reason the Isles beat the Panthers in 2016 - we got the absolute peak of his career right there.

 

[A Loyal Dog]

If we're talking HFBoards underrated: then it's Price. No one gives him enough credit. He's only seen as the worst contract in the league and a shell of his past.

If we're talking NHL, then it's Lehner. People seem to always be iffy on him, yet the guy always delivers.

 

[shaner8989]

Varlamov
Greiss
Markstrom
Halak
Grubauer

 

[983 others]

Just based off this season probably Blackwood.

 

[Karl Eriksson]

Hart

 

[bebl]

Rask

 

[I am not exposed]

Andersen
Crawford
Rask

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Vasilevskiy. The guy is the best goalie in the league, and there are people who claim he's not even top 5.

Honorable mention is Raanta, but he's never healthy.

 

[HanSolo]

Gibson is my choice.
HM to Kuemper

Honestly Gibson is my favorite goalie in the league by far but I think, given how he's playing like he kind of doesn't care til the team around him gets more competitive (and granted the team in front of him isn't doing him many defensive favors). I think if anything he's a little overrated. For now. He certainly has the talent to be the best goalie in the league and he showed that in his first half Vezina push a couple years back but I don't think his heart will be in it 100% until the Ducks get competitive again.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Varlamov? Although he's always been hot and cold. Sometimes he looks unbeatable and others he's a yank job waiting to happen

 

[DaWatcher]

Khudobin seems to be a guy that goes consistently under the radar.

 

[DFC]

Kuemper is freaking amazing. Had no idea until these playoffs.