HFBoards TOP 40 ranking: Goaltenders #17

[amnesiac*]

Now that the season and playoffs are over, I thought we'd do an "HFBoards ranking" for each position.

So basically, who (of the following) is the best goalie in the NHL? ie. which goalie would you want on your team for next year only? (independent of their respective salary)

Vote away.



Ranking so far

1. Luongo
2. Brodeur
3. Lundqvist
4. Backstrom
5. Nabokov
6. Thomas
7. Ward
8. Fleury
9. Vokoun
10. Miller

11. Kiprusoff
12. S.Mason
13. Turco
14. Giguere
15. DiPietro
16. Khabibulin

[King30Henrik]

This is getting harder...

[imayagainknowanson]

Rinne for me.

[Zetsyuk]

Hiller's turn.

[moonknight31]

hillier by a bit

[darko]

Carey Price, again...

[evgeni71]

Voted Hiller, add Turco.

[Hooch314]

Rinne should have been gone before this.

[Codc]

Lethonen

[4rde]

No love for Roloson?

[maxdanno115]

hiller

[Vipers31]

In reply to my statement in the #16 thread:

Originally Posted by MAF Is My God

Are you saying Lehtonen deserves that #8 spot more than Fleury? What could possibly be your reasoning behind that?

Yes, I was saying Lehtonen deserves the #8 spot more than Fleury. My - I admit it, not very creative - reasoning behind that would be because Kari Lehtonen is the better goaltender. It's great that Fleury has won a cup and everything, people tend to give single players credit for team efforts. Fleury has been playing on a good to great team while Lehtonen was in net for one of the league's weakest teams for many years - yet, I may quote:

Originally Posted by Center Shift

I'll take the guy with the lower career GAA, the higher career save percentage, and the higher career ratio of wins to games played. It may surprise some people to find out that is Kari Lehtonen.

[The Stovepipe Cup]

Originally Posted by Triguy

Voted Hiller, add Turco.

You mean the guy already in 13th?

[flamesfan12]

Carey Price

[Xspyrit]

Originally Posted by Codc

Lethonen

Wow, i hope this guy signs or gets traded to another team, so people could realize how good he is.

[Schenn]

Leclaire

[nwsaboy]

ok, osgood has the numbers ppl, and the experience....get him up there already

[Dr Grant]

Chris Mason should be winning this.

[Rhodes 81]

Originally Posted by Xspyrit

Wow, i hope this guy signs or gets traded to another team, so people could realize how good he is.

lehtonen's pretty gangster so he wants to stay in atlanta

the second atlanta is good for more than a year at a time everyone will realize that his numbers suck from playing on an all offensive/bad team