How highly you value goalies depends on your pool. waiting in deep pools can hurt you badly, but in smaller leagues you might find it a better play to stock up on scorers, then nab four or five goalies late, knowing at least two should be pleasant surprises. it happens every season.
Positional rankings: Centres | Defencemen | Left-Wingers | Right-Wingers
RANK | PLAYER | TEAM |
01 | Tuukka Rask | Boston |
02 | Ben Bishop | Tampa Bay |
03 | Corey Crawford | Chicago |
04 | Semyon Varlamov | Colorado |
05 | Antti Neimi | San Jose |
06 | Carey Price | Montreal |
07 | Henrik Lundqvist | New York |
08 | Sergei Bobrovsky | Columbus |
09 | Kari Lehtonen | Dallas |
10 | Marc-André Fleury | Pittsburgh |
11 | Jonathan Quick | Los Angeles |
12 | Pekka Rinne | Nashville |
13 | Corey Schneider | New Jersey |
14 | Jonathan Bernier | Toronto |
15 | Steve Mason | Philadelphia |
16 | Cam Ward | Carolina |
17 | Brian Elliott | St. Louis |
18 | John Gibson | Anaheim |
19 | Jaroslav Halak | Long Island |
20 | Braden Holtby | Washington |
21 | Roberto Luongo | Florida |
22 | Ondrej Pavelec | Winnipeg |
23 | Ryan Miller | Vancouver |
24 | Mike Smith | Arizona |
25 | Jimmy Howard | Detroit |
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