It's the Keeping Karlsson Hockey Podcast's 2017 Smörgoåliesbord!!!

With a dizzying mix of numbers and context, Elan and Brian go sifting for clues on which goalies will improve, decline, and surprise in the 2017-18 NHL season.

As on every Smörgoåliesbord, the guys touch on Every. Single. Goalie with potential to see a minute of ice this year, and conveniently tier them for your fantasy hockey draft purposes. They explain why you should tier for your draft, how they design their tiers, and all the crazy cool stats and pieces of information that go into their goalie projecting sausage.

Goalies discussed on this episode include Jake Allen, Frederik Andersen, Craig Anderson, Jonathan Bernier, JF Berube, Ben Bishop, Sergei Bobrovsky, Laurent Brossoit, Peter Budaj, Eric Comrie, Mike Condon, Pheonix Copley, Jared Coreau, Corey Crawford, Scott Darling, Aaron Dell, Louis Domingue, Devan Dubnyk, Brian Elliott, Marc-Andre Fleury, John Gibson, Thomas Greiss, Philipp Grubauer, Jonas Gustavsson, Jaroslav Halak, Andrew Hammond, Connor Hellebuyck, Braden Holtby, Jimmy Howard, Carter Hutton, Tristan Jarry, Chad Johnson, Martin Jones, Anton Khudobin, Keith Kinkaid, Joonas Korpisalo, Darcy Kuemper, Eddie Lack, Robin Lehener, Kari Lehtonen, Henrik Lundqvist, Roberto Luongo, Jacob Markstrom, Steve Mason, Curtis McElhinney, Ryan Miller, Al Montoya, Petr Mrazek, Matthew Murray, Michal Neuvirth, Antti Niemi, Anders Nilsson, Ondrej Pavelec, Carey Price, Jonathan Quick, Antti Raanta, Tuukka Rask, James Reimer, Pekka Rinne, Juuse Saros, Cory Schneider, Mike Smith, Alex Stalock, Anthony Stolarz, Niklas Svedberg, Cam Talbot, Linus Ullmark, Semyon Varlamov, Andrei Vasilevskiy, Cam Ward, and more.

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Starting Goalies

Top Skater Views

	Players	Team
	RYAN LEONARD	WSH
	NAZEM KADRI	COL
	OWEN TIPPETT	PHI
	ROOPE HINTZ	DAL
	SAM BENNETT	FLA

Top Goalie Profile Views

	Players	Team
	JAKUB DOBES	MTL
	JET GREAVES	CBJ
	KAREL VEJMELKA	UTA
	LINUS ULLMARK	OTT
	JESPER WALLSTEDT	MIN

LINE COMBOS

	Frequency	COL Players
	15.5	NATHAN MACKINNON ARTTURI LEHKONEN GABRIEL LANDESKOG
	10.6	JOEL KIVIRANTA PARKER KELLY JACK DRURY
	9.8	BROCK NELSON MARTIN NECAS NAZEM KADRI

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