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Originally Posted by transplant99
DiPietro, Krahn, Leclaire, Blackburn, Bacashihua, Munro, Lehtonen, Ward, Toivonen, Fleury, Montoya, Dubnyk, Schwarz, Schneider, Price, Rask, Bernier, Helenius, Varlamov, Irving, Pickard, McCollum
So where would you think the value lies?
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That list is somewhat skewed, as 23-26 year old goalies are hardly starter material.
If we correct for that, we get:
DiPietro, Krahn, Leclaire, Blackburn, Bacashihua, Munro, Lehtonen, Ward, Toivonen, Fleury, Montoya, Dubnyk, Schwarz, Schneider
And if we split this by draft spot, we get:
Top 5: Dipietro, Lehtonen, Fleury
5-10: Krahn, Leclaire, Blackburn, Montoya
11-20: Schwarz, Dubnyk
21-30: Bacashihua, Foster, Ward, Toivonen, Schneider
So out of 14 players, we have 3 goaltenders who bowed out from injury (insignificant results), 3 career backups/journeymen, 4 late round busts, and 4 starters.
The detail I see is how risky the top 10 goalies are as skaters are much more stable in stock. Drafting goalies late 1st seems to be a gamble, but good payoff for input with approximate chance of becoming a legitimate NHLer only slightly higher than the skaters in that range. I wouldn't say don't draft goalies in the first period, but if you want to go all in, goalies in the bottom 15 or 20 are a reasonable venture.