Cap League Goalie Rankings – July 2021

Alexander MacLean

2021-07-26

Here are the top 62 goalies to own in your salary cap league – July 26th, 2021 edition.

We're in the middle of a wild offseason, and right before the free agency storm we bring you the salary cap goalie rankings for July! This ranking system is still younger than the skater version, so it's not quite as refined yet – a constant work in progress. That being said, the only real thing I need to calibrate is to up the keeper value a bit for the top prospects like Spencer Knight and Yaroslav Askarov. Don't sleep on them!

Seattle's selection and subsequent signing of Chris Driedger, along with the Alex Nedeljkovic for Bernier trade changes a few things around. Projections are used for the rest of the unsigned, and if you want to see those numbers, they were last updated in the Ramblings just a few days ago.

Keep an eye out for the September version due out on the 26th (as always), updated just in time for your fantasy drafts.

Standard pre-rankings note:

This isn't meant to be a be-all and end-all rating system for you to use without thinking and just trade your players for anyone above them on the list that you can find, but used with some foresight for managing salaries, I'm hoping that the list can help you mine value in trades, and at the draft table.

Cap hit is used for the player cost, so if your league uses salary or AAV, please account for that, as it can greatly change the impact of rookies. The rankings are set up so as to provide the most value in the current season, while providing some value in future years, based on modeling for predicted salary increases and production growth.

The stats used for the goaltenders attempt to balance both ratio stats as well as volume. For those of you with variations towards either end of the spectrum, leaning more towards volume or rate stats, you will want to account for that change in value. Same thing goes for setting variations such as: number of teams, salary space, or roster positions. This list is made to be a baseline guide for player evaluation, and to promote discussion and understanding of how to optimize rosters in a cap league setting.

The goalie list comes not only with a rankings system, but with value tiers. The tiers (also computed by a formula of mine) represent a more general view on a goalie's value taking into account a few overarching factors. Cheap backups can have higher ratings but show up lower down the tier rankings. The high ranking is due to their low cap hits coupled with an established floor with some possible upside. The lower tier is a result of them having uncertain volume, and the lower likelihood of hitting their upside in any given year. In general, aim to have the highest rated players if you are looking to be most cap efficient, but use the tiers if you just want to focus on having the best goalies and you are comfortable paying a little more for that security (my preference is usually to lean towards the more cap efficient options because of how variable goalies can be).

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If you note a mistake, or have any further questions about the ranking system, please let me know. You can find me on Twitter here @alexdmaclean.

I'm not perfect, and the rankings won't be either. Comments help with optimizing the values.

We're sticking with the +/- 5.0 rating that Dobber uses on all of his rating schemes as the range for approximately equivalent value. The skater and goalie rankings are synched so that the value of a skater against a goalie can be compared, though the scale of the ratings has changed a little since the last update.

All salary info is courtesy of capfriendly. Without further ado, the rankings:

RankNameAgeCap HitYrsRatingTierPrev Rnk
1Jack Campbell29$1,650,0001257.4811
2Calvin Petersen26$858,3331218.9232
3Vitek Vanecek25$716,6671190.3434
4Jake Oettinger22$925,0001188.5133
5Tristan Jarry26$3,500,0002174.7725
6Andrei Vasilevskiy26$9,500,0007174.4416
7Connor Hellebuyck28$6,166,6663166.1817
8Semyon Varlamov33$5,000,0002161.6418
9Kevin Lankinen26$800,0001153.9359
10Mackenzie Blackwood24$2,800,0002147.69310
11Carter Hart22RFA0142.99412
12Jordan Binnington28$6,000,0006142.89315
13Darcy Kuemper31$4,500,0001142.67213
14Philipp Grubauer29UFA0139.12214
15Juuse Saros26RFA0138.83216
16Jacob Markstrom31$6,000,0005138.67317
17Cam Talbot34$3,666,6662137.50411
18Linus Ullmark27RFA0137.00518
19Joonas Korpisalo27$2,800,0001133.71319
20Frederik Andersen31UFA0130.64520
21Igor Shesterkin25RFA0127.61322
22Robin Lehner29$5,000,0004127.17323
23Petr Mrazek29UFA0126.57436
24Ilya Samsonov24RFA0125.84324
25Marc-Andre Fleury36$7,000,0001124.59325
26Elvis Merzlikins27$4,000,0001123.80326
27Tuukka Rask34UFA0123.18427
28Jeremy Swayman22$925,0002121.31328
29John Gibson28$6,400,0006119.93332
30Casey DeSmith29$1,250,0001118.54429
31Ilya Sorokin25RFA0118.07431
32Kaapo Kahkonen24$725,0001117.68433
33Jonathan Bernier32UFA0117.26534
34Thatcher Demko25$5,000,0005116.98435
35Alex Nedeljkovic25$3,000,0002116.31421
36Adin Hill25RFA0113.84648
37Chris Driedger27$3,500,0003109.15439
38Antti Raanta32UFA0107.99537
39Pavel Francouz31$2,000,0001107.19330
40Jaroslav Halak36UFA0100.32540
41Anton Khudobin35$3,333,3332100.21542
42James Reimer33UFA090.89543
43Brian Elliott36UFA086.93744
44Collin Delia27$1,000,000184.58545
45Spencer Knight20$925,000284.01457
46Jake Allen30$2,875,000283.81546
47Thomas Greiss35$3,600,000183.77647
48Malcolm Subban27$850,000182.38649
49Devan Dubnyk35UFA080.14651
50Sergei Bobrovsky32$10,000,000579.93352
51Mike Smith39$2,200,000279.45441
52Alexandar Georgiev25$2,425,000178.22553
53Ville Husso26$750,000175.38554
54Laurent Brossoit28UFA075.29655
55Matt Murray27$6,250,000375.26456
56David Rittich28RFA066.34638
57Carey Price33$10,500,000566.16360
58Braden Holtby31$4,300,000165.95561
59Jonathan Quick35$5,800,000262.85662
60Martin Jones31$5,750,000361.60558
61Jonas Johansson25$750,000158.094NR
62Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen22$778,333152.945NR

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