Cap League Goalie Rankings – July 2025
Alexander MacLean
2025-07-26
I hope you're all enjoying perusing your copy of the DobberHockey Fantasy Guide! Let's add some extra material to your reading list, with the summer version of the goalie cap league rankings, all updated with new teams, new contracts, and projections for the upcoming season.
We see the top-eight from last update keeping their slots, while Jet Greaves announces his presence on the scene with a top-10 appearance. Besides him and Dustin Wolf, there are not many options for a cheap goaltender these days if you want at least 15 games. You could try Ivan Prosvetov, Jakub Dobes, or Arturs Silovs, but none of the remaining options are close to a sure thing. If you own Greaves or Wolf, hold on tight.
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 | 224.3 | 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 | Joseph Woll | 27 | $3,666,667 | 3 | 193.2 | 1 | 6 |
| 7 | Andrei Vasilevskiy | 31 | $9,500,000 | 3 | 184.7 | 1 | 7 |
| 8 | Logan Thompson | 28 | $5,850,000 | 6 | 177.0 | 1 | 8 |
| 9 | Jake Oettinger | 26 | $8,250,000 | 8 | 166.7 | 1 | 13 |
| 10 | Jet Greaves | 24 | $812,500 | 1 | 213.0 | 2 | 40 |
| 11 | Stuart Skinner | 26 | $2,600,000 | 1 | 212.2 | 2 | 9 |
| 12 | Darcy Kuemper | 35 | $5,250,000 | 2 | 197.0 | 2 | 10 |
| 13 | Mackenzie Blackwood | 28 | $5,250,000 | 5 | 182.9 | 2 | 11 |
| 14 | Adin Hill | 29 | $6,250,000 | 6 | 180.2 | 2 | 12 |
| 15 | Ilya Sorokin | 29 | $8,250,000 | 7 | 162.0 | 2 | 14 |
| 16 | Linus Ullmark | 31 | $8,250,000 | 4 | 146.2 | 2 | 15 |
| 17 | Sam Montembeault | 28 | $3,150,000 | 2 | 226.0 | 3 | 16 |
| 18 | Samuel Ersson | 25 | $1,450,000 | 1 | 196.6 | 3 | 17 |
| 19 | Joey Daccord | 28 | $5,000,000 | 5 | 177.7 | 3 | 18 |
| 20 | Karel Vejmelka | 29 | $4,750,000 | 5 | 169.4 | 3 | 47 |
| 21 | Frederik Andersen | 35 | $2,500,000 | 1 | 164.8 | 3 | 19 |
| 22 | Charlie Lindgren | 31 | $3,000,000 | 3 | 158.9 | 3 | 21 |
| 23 | Elvis Merzlikins | 31 | $5,400,000 | 2 | 154.4 | 3 | 26 |
| 24 | Jacob Markstrom | 35 | $6,000,000 | 1 | 153.5 | 3 | 22 |
| 25 | Juuse Saros | 30 | $7,740,000 | 8 | 152.6 | 3 | 23 |
| 26 | Alex Nedeljkovic | 29 | $2,500,000 | 1 | 151.5 | 3 | 51 |
| 27 | Igor Shesterkin | 29 | $11,500,000 | 8 | 144.8 | 3 | 24 |
| 28 | Spencer Knight | 24 | $4,500,000 | 1 | 141.2 | 3 | 25 |
| 29 | Sergei Bobrovsky | 36 | $10,000,000 | 1 | 133.8 | 3 | 27 |
| 30 | Casey DeSmith | 33 | $1,000,000 | 2 | 178.8 | 4 | 29 |
| 31 | Daniil Tarasov | 26 | $1,050,000 | 1 | 177.1 | 4 | 43 |
| 32 | Calvin Pickard | 33 | $1,000,000 | 1 | 176.4 | 4 | 30 |
| 33 | Jake Allen | 34 | $1,800,000 | 5 | 162.7 | 4 | 45 |
| 34 | Jordan Binnington | 32 | $6,000,000 | 2 | 158.5 | 4 | 20 |
| 35 | Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen | 26 | $4,750,000 | 4 | 157.2 | 4 | 31 |
| 36 | Yaroslav Askarov | 23 | $2,000,000 | 2 | 139.9 | 4 | 36 |
| 37 | John Gibson | 32 | $6,400,000 | 2 | 138.0 | 4 | 55 |
| 38 | Jeremy Swayman | 26 | $8,250,000 | 7 | 138.0 | 4 | 33 |
| 39 | Eric Comrie | 30 | $825,000 | 1 | 136.7 | 4 | 34 |
| 40 | Lukas Dostal | 25 | $5,500,000 | 6 | 136.4 | 4 | 32 |
| 41 | Tristan Jarry | 30 | $5,375,000 | 3 | 131.6 | 4 | 35 |
| 42 | Leevi Merilainen | 22 | $1,050,000 | 1 | 103.6 | 4 | 39 |
| 43 | Erik Portillo | 24 | $783,333 | 2 | 60.6 | 4 | NR |
| 44 | Sebastian Cossa | 22 | $863,333 | 1 | 36.0 | 4 | 41 |
| 45 | Dan Vladar | 27 | $3,350,000 | 2 | 148.6 | 5 | NR |
| 46 | Scott Wedgewood | 32 | $1,500,000 | 1 | 144.6 | 5 | 44 |
| 47 | Arturs Silovs | 24 | $850,000 | 1 | 140.5 | 5 | 58 |
| 48 | Jakub Dobes | 24 | $965,000 | 2 | 140.4 | 5 | 46 |
| 49 | Akira Schmid | 25 | $875,000 | 1 | 139.6 | 5 | 59 |
| 50 | Justus Annunen | 25 | $837,500 | 1 | 137.1 | 5 | 49 |
| 51 | Devon Levi | 23 | RFA | 0 | 134.1 | 5 | 42 |
| 52 | Thatcher Demko | 29 | $5,000,000 | 1 | 128.7 | 5 | 52 |
| 53 | Ilya Samsonov | 28 | UFA | 0 | 126.6 | 5 | NR |
| 54 | Joel Hofer | 24 | $3,400,000 | 2 | 126.4 | 5 | 48 |
| 55 | David Rittich | 32 | $1,000,000 | 1 | 124.1 | 5 | NR |
| 56 | Alexandar Georgiev | 29 | UFA | 0 | 123.5 | 5 | 53 |
| 57 | Kevin Lankinen | 30 | $4,500,000 | 5 | 122.9 | 5 | 37 |
| 58 | Petr Mrazek | 33 | $4,250,000 | 1 | 120.4 | 5 | 54 |
| 59 | Connor Ingram | 28 | $1,950,000 | 1 | 101.7 | 5 | 28 |
| 60 | Philipp Grubauer | 33 | $5,900,000 | 2 | 78.5 | 5 | 57 |
| 61 | Jesper Wallstedt | 22 | $2,200,000 | 2 | 68.4 | 5 | 38 |
| 62 | Nico Daws | 24 | $812,500 | 1 | 61.0 | 5 | 60 |
| 63 | Ivan Fedotov | 28 | $3,275,000 | 1 | 57.2 | 5 | 56 |
| 64 | Arvid Soderblom | 25 | $2,750,000 | 2 | 135.9 | 6 | NR |
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