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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
If you tried predicting that list 4 years ago you might have gotten 2 or 3 names correct, though.
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Fact of the matter is any way you slice it Canada's goaltending is awful. Not even top 3 in the world. It is not like there is some stud that everyone is talking about that is expected to be great in 3 years. I am fairly confident that outside of possibly Levi there is not a Canadian goalie out there that is not on the radar yet. Out of the 52 goalies who played 25 NHL games or more last year, the following 14 are Canadian
Jordan Binnington
Darcy Kuemper
Carter Hart
Stuart Skinner
Martin Jones
Tristan Jarry
Marc-Andre Fleury
James Reimer
Jake Allen
Samuel Montembeault
Cam Talbot
Spencer Martin
Connor Ingram
Adin Hill
Matt Murray
Pick whatever three you want from that group, it does not matter, Canada's goaltending will be bottom of the barrel at the Olympics. The following countries have the following goaltenders that will almost certainly be considered better than whatever Canada can throw together in less than three years
Finland - Soros. Competitive with whatever Canada has will be their other two goalies Husso and Korpisalo
USA - Hellebuyck, Oettinger. Unlike Canada they have a number of younger goalies that could be good in 3 years (Swayman, Knight, Woll)
Russia - Vasilevski, Sorokin, Shesterkin. Also have Georgiev, Samsonov in the wings if their big 3 falter.
Sweden - Ullmark. Also have Markstrom
Czech - Vanecek.
Canada is in with Germany (Grubauer), Denmark (Andersen) and Czech in terms of goaltending. Clearly below Finalnd, USA, Russia and Sweden. Somewhere between 5th and 7th best in the world for the starting goalie.