Some excellent performances thus far by Brandon Bussi and Karel Vejmelka (your league leader in Wins) along with injuries to Thatcher Demko, Anthony Stolarz, Pyotr Kochetkov, and more, has led to some big ranking swings at this point in the year. With goalies that's what you can expect, both in-season, and across multiple years. Stick closer to the tier list when you're thinking of buying, selling, or otherwise moving goalies, and you'll likely end up ahead of the market in the long run. In the meantime, best of luck to you and your goalies in the stretch run.

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	263.7	1	1
2	Karel Vejmelka	29	$4,750,000	5	196.1	1	20
3	Filip Gustavsson	27	$3,750,000	1	175.2	1	4
4	Mackenzie Blackwood	29	$5,250,000	5	153.0	1	11
5	Andrei Vasilevskiy	31	$9,500,000	3	152.0	1	8
6	Logan Thompson	28	$5,850,000	6	144.7	1	5
7	Jake Oettinger	27	$8,250,000	8	138.6	1	12
8	Connor Hellebuyck	32	$8,500,000	7	123.9	1	6
9	Brandon Bussi	27	$775,000	1	268.6	2	62
10	Stuart Skinner	27	$2,600,000	1	179.6	2	9
11	Juuse Saros	30	$7,740,000	8	139.2	2	26
12	Ilya Sorokin	30	$8,250,000	7	138.5	2	25
13	Darcy Kuemper	35	$5,250,000	2	137.6	2	10
14	Spencer Knight	24	$4,500,000	1	137.0	2	13
15	Joseph Woll	27	$3,666,667	3	131.0	2	7
16	Igor Shesterkin	30	$11,500,000	8	127.7	2	28
17	Tristan Jarry	30	$5,375,000	3	126.5	2	45
18	Pyotr Kochetkov	26	$2,000,000	2	115.1	2	2
19	Anthony Stolarz	32	$2,500,000	1	110.0	2	3
20	Linus Ullmark	32	$8,250,000	4	101.4	2	14
21	Scott Wedgewood	33	$1,500,000	1	245.5	3	36
22	Jakub Dobes	24	$965,000	2	224.2	3	15
23	Yaroslav Askarov	23	$2,000,000	2	172.1	3	23
24	Jesper Wallstedt	23	$2,200,000	2	146.0	3	47
25	Colten Ellis	25	$775,000	2	143.2	3	19
26	John Gibson	32	$6,400,000	2	141.6	3	46
27	Samuel Ersson	26	$1,450,000	1	138.9	3	16
28	Samuel Montembeault	29	$3,150,000	2	131.7	3	NR
29	Lukas Dostal	25	$5,500,000	6	129.5	3	43
30	Joey Daccord	29	$5,000,000	5	127.8	3	21
31	Jeremy Swayman	27	$8,250,000	7	125.3	3	44
32	Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen	26	$4,750,000	4	118.4	3	38
33	Sergei Bobrovsky	37	$10,000,000	1	101.1	3	30
34	Jet Greaves	24	$812,500	1	178.3	4	17
35	Jake Allen	35	$1,800,000	5	175.8	4	33
36	Dan Vladar	28	$3,350,000	2	159.4	4	35
37	Daniil Tarasov	26	$1,050,000	1	158.0	4	31
38	Akira Schmid	25	$875,000	1	143.7	4	37
39	Arturs Silovs	24	$850,000	1	140.7	4	34
40	Eric Comrie	30	$825,000	1	132.1	4	32
41	Joel Hofer	25	$3,400,000	2	128.7	4	56
42	Alex Nedeljkovic	30	$2,500,000	1	126.0	4	27
43	Connor Ingram	28	$1,950,000	1	118.0	4	48
44	Kevin Lankinen	30	$4,500,000	5	115.6	4	42
45	Jacob Markstrom	35	$6,000,000	1	102.5	4	29
46	Jacob Fowler	21	$923,333	3	96.9	4	NR
47	Jordan Binnington	32	$6,000,000	2	93.4	4	41
48	Elvis Merzlikins	31	$5,400,000	2	90.2	4	40
49	Erik Portillo	25	$783,333	2	69.4	4	50
50	Adin Hill	29	$6,250,000	6	65.4	4	22
51	Sebastian Cossa	23	$863,333	1	41.9	4	51
52	Casey DeSmith	34	$1,000,000	2	160.3	5	52
53	David Rittich	33	$1,000,000	1	141.4	5	NR
54	Jonas Johansson	30	$1,250,000	2	132.5	5	NR
55	Alex Lyon	33	$1,500,000	2	127.6	5	NR
56	Devin Cooley	28	$775,000	1	125.2	5	NR
57	Charlie Lindgren	32	$3,000,000	3	103.3	5	39
58	Leevi Merilainen	23	$1,050,000	1	99.2	5	49
59	Thatcher Demko	30	$5,000,000	1	96.0	5	54
60	Nico Daws	25	$812,500	1	60.8	5	NR
61	Devon Levi	24	$812,500	2	55.0	5	57
62	Nikita Tolopilo	25	$775,000	2	54.0	5	NR
63	Ivan Fedotov	29	$3,275,000	1	53.5	5	NR
64	Carl Lindbom	22	$840,000	1	53.1	5	58