Was kind of bored last night during that brutal game 7 and started doing some research on comparing the potential goalies available.
Looked at the past 3 seasons and compared their 5v5 save percentages.
Really with this graph you would want the goalie to be in the top right hand corner. The vertical axis looks at save percentage adjusted for the shot quality give up by the team, and horizontal axis is looking at the unadjusted save percentage.
It's funny because you have guys like Pickard, Korpisalo, Murray, & Hammond ahead of the pack but in very small sample sizes.
Then you have a group of 3 goalies that stand out in Mrazek, Elliott, and Bishop but IMO those goalies are going to be the hardest to acquire.
After that though you have a huge group of goalies that tend to be fairly equal in their save percentage performance. Allen, Neuvirth, Fleury, Reimer, Andersen, & Vasilevskiy all fall into a similar category of performance and are very close to one another.
Then below them you have guys like Hiller, Ramo, Howard, and Kuemper who would be poor options (as we already know with Hiller & Ramo).
For me personally I think the best case scenario would be to trade some of our 2nd round currency for Pickard and then sign Reimer as a UFA. Would give us a pretty good goalie tandem for next season.
