Here are the top 64 goalies to own in your salary cap league – September 26^th, 2025 edition.

With the pre-season skater list dropping yesterday, of course we have the goalies for you today. The goalies are much tougher to project, as their workload factors into their projection and value to a much greater degree than we see with the skaters. That's why some reach for the better bet of volume, while others aim for the higher risk/reward with the backups. For example, the numbers fluctuate more on

than anyone else from the last rankings to this update, because of the uncertainty with him. In July we were maybe a little bullish on him, while the current feeling is closer to cautious optimism.

Standard pre-rankings note:

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 entry-level deals. 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 value 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).

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.

Comments help with optimizing the values, because they're not perfect and they never will be.

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.

Rank	Name	Age	Cap Hit	Yrs	Value	Tier	Prev Rnk
1	Dustin Wolf	24	$850,000	1	328.6	1	1
2	Pyotr Kochetkov	26	$2,000,000	2	243.9	1	2
3	Anthony Stolarz	31	$2,500,000	1	231.0	1	3
4	Connor Hellebuyck	32	$8,500,000	7	219.8	1	4
5	Filip Gustavsson	27	$3,750,000	1	216.1	1	5
6	Andrei Vasilevskiy	31	$9,500,000	3	184.7	1	7
7	Joseph Woll	27	$3,666,667	3	183.9	1	6
8	Logan Thompson	28	$5,850,000	6	177.0	1	8
9	Jake Oettinger	26	$8,250,000	8	166.7	1	9
10	Stuart Skinner	26	$2,600,000	1	212.2	2	11
11	Darcy Kuemper	35	$5,250,000	2	197.0	2	12
12	Mackenzie Blackwood	28	$5,250,000	5	182.9	2	13
13	Adin Hill	29	$6,250,000	6	180.2	2	14
14	Ilya Sorokin	30	$8,250,000	7	161.8	2	15
15	Linus Ullmark	32	$8,250,000	4	144.2	2	16
16	Sam Montembeault	28	$3,150,000	2	226.0	3	17
17	Samuel Ersson	25	$1,450,000	1	196.6	3	18
18	Jet Greaves	24	$812,500	1	182.3	3	10
19	Joey Daccord	29	$5,000,000	5	178.5	3	19
20	Karel Vejmelka	29	$4,750,000	5	177.2	3	20
21	Frederik Andersen	35	$2,500,000	1	164.8	3	21
22	Charlie Lindgren	31	$3,000,000	3	158.9	3	22
23	Elvis Merzlikins	31	$5,400,000	2	154.4	3	23
24	Jacob Markstrom	35	$6,000,000	1	153.5	3	24
25	Juuse Saros	30	$7,740,000	8	152.6	3	25
26	Alex Nedeljkovic	29	$2,500,000	1	151.5	3	26
27	Igor Shesterkin	29	$11,500,000	8	144.8	3	27
28	Spencer Knight	24	$4,500,000	1	141.8	3	28
29	Sergei Bobrovsky	37	$10,000,000	1	125.7	3	29
30	Daniil Tarasov	26	$1,050,000	1	177.1	4	31
31	Calvin Pickard	33	$1,000,000	1	176.4	4	32
32	Jordan Binnington	32	$6,000,000	2	158.5	4	34
33	Jake Allen	35	$1,800,000	5	155.6	4	33
34	Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen	26	$4,750,000	4	149.7	4	35
35	Yaroslav Askarov	23	$2,000,000	2	139.9	4	36
36	John Gibson	32	$6,400,000	2	138.0	4	37
37	Jeremy Swayman	26	$8,250,000	7	138.0	4	38
38	Eric Comrie	30	$825,000	1	136.7	4	39
39	Lukas Dostal	25	$5,500,000	6	136.4	4	40
40	Tristan Jarry	30	$5,375,000	3	131.6	4	41
41	Leevi Merilainen	23	$1,050,000	1	111.2	4	42
42	Erik Portillo	25	$783,333	2	63.0	4	43
43	Sebastian Cossa	22	$863,333	1	36.0	4	44
44	Casey DeSmith	34	$1,000,000	2	171.8	5	30
45	Dan Vladar	28	$3,350,000	2	150.3	5	45
46	Scott Wedgewood	33	$1,500,000	1	142.3	5	46
47	Arturs Silovs	24	$850,000	1	140.5	5	47
48	Jakub Dobes	24	$965,000	2	140.4	5	48
49	Akira Schmid	25	$875,000	1	139.6	5	49
50	Justus Annunen	25	$837,500	1	137.1	5	50
51	Joel Hofer	25	$3,400,000	2	130.9	5	54
52	Thatcher Demko	29	$5,000,000	1	128.7	5	52
53	Ilya Samsonov	28	$0	0	126.6	5	53
54	Kevin Lankinen	30	$4,500,000	5	122.9	5	57
55	Petr Mrazek	33	$4,250,000	1	120.4	5	58
56	Alexandar Georgiev	29	$825,000	1	169.9	4	56
57	Connor Ingram	28	$1,950,000	1	101.7	5	59
58	Devon Levi	23	$812,500	2	86.8	5	51
59	Philipp Grubauer	33	$5,900,000	2	78.5	5	60
60	Jesper Wallstedt	22	$2,200,000	2	68.4	5	61
61	Nico Daws	24	$812,500	1	61.0	5	62
62	Ivan Fedotov	28	$3,275,000	1	57.3	5	NR
63	David Rittich	33	$1,000,000	1	122.1	6	55
64	Vitek Vanecek	29	$1,500,000	1	121.1	6	NR