THN ranks the goalies
This week's edition of The Hockey News offers a ranking of the Top 30 netminders in the NHL, an order meted out by seven former pro goaltenders:
Martin Brodeur- Roberto Luongo
- Miikka Kiprusoff
- J-S Giguere
- Dominik Hasek
- Ryan Miller
- Ray Emery
- Marty Turco
- Vesa Toskala
- Marc-Andre Fleury
- Kari Lehtonen
- Chris Mason
- Rick DiPietro
- Cam ward
- Manny Fernandez
- Henrik Lundqvist
- Olaf Kolzig
- Dwayne Rolsoon
- Andrew Raycroft
- Tomas Vokoun
- Cristobal Huet
- Manny Legace
- Johan Holmqvist
- Nikolai Khabibulin
- Peter Budaj
- Evgeni Nabokov
- Martin Biron
- Tim Thomas
- Ed Belfour
- Curtis Joseph
The Wild's Niklas Backstrom gets left off the list altogether despite his strong play, and Curtis Sanford and Mathieu Garon have played well on terrible teams. (And if you really want to reward someone for a short burst of strong netminding, Sean Burke has been downright stellar.)
I think Cristobal Huet should also get a bump up from 21st.
Your thoughts?
Labels: Goaltenders, Luongo
by James Mirtle @ 10:14 PM
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How in the world is Vokoun #20? Other then the fact that he's been outplayed by Chris Mason, there's nothing in his stats to suggest that he's been worse then many of the names above him, especially Ward (!) and Raycroft (!!). A .918 SV% is fantastic regardless of how good the team in front of you is.
There is a lot wrong with that list in my opinion. It starts off good but soon falls apart. Brodeur, Luongo, Kipprusoff are in my mind clearly the top 3 goalies in the NHL. I have a hard time with Fleury in the top 15 let alone top 10. He's not really accomplished anything yet in his career. Turco is too inconsistent to be at #8 and Toskala is hardly even a #1 goalie splitting duties with Nabokov and his .905 save% is just OK. There is no way Toskala should be top 10 and if he is, how can you justify Nabokov at 26th? Roloson and Kolzig should both be in the top 10 and Vokoun should be right up there too. Cam Ward, aside from his playoffs last year, hasn't been very good and doesn't deserve to be 14th.
My list would look more like this:
1. Brodeur
2. Luongo
3. Kupprusoff
4. Giguere
5. Miller
6. Vokoun
7. Hasek
8. Emery
9. DiPietro
10. Roloson
11. Turco
12. Kolzig
13. Huet
14. Mason
15. Fernandez
16. Lehtonen
17. Lundqvist
18. Fleury
19. Toskala
20. Gerber
Wow, you'd think THN would put #1 on the front cover for all editions, but Canada gets #19 Andrew Raycroft on the cover. I know he's a Leaf, but sticking #19 on your list of the top 30 goalies to try and catch people's eyes to buy a mag is a bit odd to me.
In any case, from what I've seen this season, I haven't been too impressed with Ray Emery. I think Rick DiPietro is a lot better than what his stats suggest from the 6 games I've seen of him and is about equal with Ray Emery. I think while Fleury has been a huge part of Pittsburgh's streak, he's way too high on the list. He lets in way too many soft goals. I also agree with David Johnson about Toskala. Kari Lehtonen is a bit high for a team that's been freefalling for the last month and a half. Here's how I'd make the top ten (I don't know enough to do 30):
1. Brodeur
2. Luongo
3. Kiprusoff
4. Hasek
5. Giguere
6. Miller
7. DiPietro
8. Emery
9. Turco
10. Mason
But my opinion is just that.
How in the heck are Cristobal Huet, Nikolai Khabibulin, Johan Holmqvist and Evgeni Nabokov all under no 20 and all behind Raycroft.
Huet should be at least 12th
Khabibulin should be in the late-teens
Holmqvist's play in the second half should raise him.
Nabokov's been great. No idea what they're doing behind...pfft, Andrew Raycroft?
Okay, who where the 7 goaltenders and what bar were they drinking at? The list starts off fine with the obvious, gets shaky at 5 and then falls apart after 10...
And do they think so little of LEaf Nation that they have to put Raycroft on the cover in order for them to buy it?
PS
That's a very generous 19.
OK this was obviously done by someone in Toronto! Raycroft is the number 1 goaltender..in the AHL. Huet #21? Please, He was in the runnig for the Vezina until December until his team started to tank. In my opinion Luongo is over-rated, yes he's having a sold season so far, but this is a guy who has 0 games played in the playoffs.
I believe Roberto Luongo is overated......Turco in the top ten?.......you should switch Mason with him...Whats with Dipietro so low...i think he should be in the top 10....it should look like this
1.Brodeur
2.Kiprusoff
3.Luongo
4.Guigere
5.Hasek
6.Miller
7.Dipietro
8.Mason
9.Emery
10.Lehtonen
1. Martin Brodeur
2. Roberto Luongo
3. Miikka Kiprusoff
4. J-S Giguere
5. Dominik Hasek
6. Henrik Lundqvist
7. Evgeni Nabokov
8. Marty Turco
9. Tomas Vokoun
10. Cristobal Huet
11. Dwayne Roloson
12. Manny Legace
13. Rick DiPietro
14. Evgeni Nabokov
15. Nikolai Khabibulin
dipietro is a joke
1.brodeur
2.lundqvist
3.luongo
4.giguere
5.turco
6.dipietro
7.kipper
8.legace
9.hasek
10.miller. toskala
raycroft sucks too much to belong in a list, he should have stayed in ahl. nobody wants goalies like cloutier and raycroft ruining the game.
The person who put Lundqvist above Luongo has some serious problems. Overall this list is a joke how does Raycroft even make this list? And Toskala doesn't belong in the top ten!
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