Chootoi said:fleury. mentions to nittymaki and maybe leneveu.
i think under the new CBA and changes to the game and all that junk you'll be hard pressed to find goalies that put up roy and brodeur like stats. i'll probably take some heat for this but roy played for a very good montreal team early on and a very good colorado team later in his career. brodeur has played on a NJ team that had lemaire behind the bench for good while, and even now they play tight defensive hockey. some will argue that roy and brodeur are what made these teams good. maybe so. i just think under a new league (and possibly game) structure you'll see a lot less 'dynasties' so to speak that are consistently good over a decade (DET, NJ, COL...). i personally think that then NHL will start to mimic the CHL a bit more where teams rise and fall in the standings every 3-4 years rather than the 7-8 years (or more) that it is now.
i guess we'll find out
fredez said:TOP 10 YOUNG GOALIE PROSPECTS
1-Kari Lehtonen
2-Hannu Toivonen
3-Ryan Miller
4-Cam Ward
5-Josh Harding
6-Antero Niitymaki
7-Andy Chiodo
8-Pascal Leclaire
9-Yann Danis
10-Henrik Lundqvist
Til the End of Time said:Fleury has struggled lately, but is that enough to drop him from the top ten goalie prospects?
I don't know why I forgot about Fleury, I switched him with Chiodo now.Til the End of Time said:Fleury has struggled lately, but is that enough to drop him from the top ten goalie prospects?
fredez said:I don't know why I forgot about Fleury, I switched him with Chiodo now.
Til the End of Time said:Fleury has struggled lately, but is that enough to drop him from the top ten goalie prospects?
salzy said:I would have to say Lehtonen.
On a side note, it's nice to see so many people mentioning Niitymaki. Is it safe to say he has vaulted passed Ouellet at this point? Aside from the immediate shock of hearing about the trade, I personally have never sweated the Adam Oates deal for one second. Maybe Niity is starting to make the rest of Flyerland stop worring about the deal too?
Man.Utd said:Agreed. But he has been horrible pretty much all year. Infact, excluding a few hot streaks, he's been sub-par since the WJC. I'm confident he can get over the hump, but not on his own. The Pens need to get him a goalie coach. As far as I'm concerned it's not even an option. If nobody is brought in to help Fleury, who has all the talent in the world, I see things continuing down the same path.
BlindWillyMcHurt said:... and vault Chiodo, who has been hot just lately (and totally blown all season otherwise), onto the list when he has been previously left off for... well... ever?
The flavor of the moment attitude around here is stunning at times.
Rather Gingerly 1 said:My top three would be:
1.Lethonen
2.Fleury
3.Danis
Rancid said:Here's a homer- Blackburn (he'd be a good contender if it wasn't for his weird glove/blocker thingy)
27- 3 more
Henrik Lundqvist
Kari Lehtonen
Andy Chiodo
Hannu Toivanen
Marc-Andre Fleury
Antero Niittymaki
Andrew Raycroft
Julien Ellis Plante
Pascal LeClaire
David Leneveu
Ray Emery
Brent Krahn
Yann Danis
Marek Schwartz
Ryan Miller
Jeff Glass
Al Montoya
Maxime Ouellet
Mikka Noronen
Rick DiPietro
Josh Harding
James Howard
Ilja Bryzgalov
Ari Ahonen
Cam Ward
Dan Blackburn
no undrafteds
this is not a nomination but i'm surprised a leaf fan hasn't blurted out tellqvist yet...