Monday, September 8, 2008

Ranking the top 41 NHL goalies

Below is a ranking of the top 41 goalies league wide. This also shows why some teams, such as Los Angles, do not have a chance at all this season. Buffalo came out ok, with Miller at number 8 and Lalime doing respectable at number 32. The most stacked team is obviously Chicago with both Huet (#10) and Khabibulin (#18). The top ten show and even split between the east and the west although both of the top two are in the Pacific division, and numbers three and four both play in the Atlantic division. A few of these are a little uncertain such as #17 Carey Price who has seen very few starts, as well as Curtis Joseph (#37) who has been out of the spotlight for a while now. Also half of the top six (numbers one, four, and six) are all named Marty, which is a bit unusual. Chris is the only other name repeated at numbers 14 and 21.

#1 Marty Turco
#2 Evgeni Nabokov
#3 Rick DiPietro
#4 Martin Brodeur
#5 Dan Ellis
#6 Martin Biron
#7 Roberto Luongo
#8 Ryan Miller
#9 Henrik Lundqvist
#10 Cristobal Huet
#11 Jean-Sebastien Giguere
#12 Marc-Andre Fleury
#13 Miikka Kiprusoff
#14 Chris Osgood
#15 Tim Thomas
#16 Tomáš Vokoun
#17 Carey Price
#18 Nikolai Khabibulin
#19 Niklas Bäckström
#20 Ilya Bryzgalov
#21 Chris Mason
#22 Martin Gerber
#23 Pascal Leclaire
#24 Manny Legacé
#25 Johan Holmqvist
#26 Peter Budaj
#27 Mathieu Garon
#28 Cam Ward
#29 Jose Theodore
#30 Alex Auld
#31 Vesa Toskala
#32 Patrick Lalime
#33 Kari Lehtonen
#34 Dwayne Roloson
#35 Andrew Raycroft
#36 Jason LaBarbera
#37 Curtis Joseph
#38 Olaf Kolzig
#39 Johan Hedberg
#40 Manny Fernandez
#41 Fredrik Norrena

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