NHL off-season goalie market tiers: Why it's the year of the netminder

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The goalie market is shaping up to be a fascinating one with many options available from starters to tandem options to veterans and more RoryBoylen breaks down the market into tiers of varying levels of workload to see what options are available.

Here's a tricky one. There was a time when Holtby's name was top of mind in any 'world's best goalie' debate, but it's been three years since that's been accurate. His save percentage has notably been in decline, falling to .897 this season and he wasn't much better in the playoffs. Now at 30 years old, Holtby is being replaced by Ilya Samsonov as Washington's starter next season and it seems likely Henrik Lundqvist will be signed as his backup.

“For me, I’d be looking for more games,” Talbot said. “I wanted to prove that I can do that again, and I think I did.”In Boston and now Dallas, Khudobin has been the league's best 'backup' for a couple years, though he's a little more than that. With Ben Bishop"unfit to play" in the playoffs, Khudobin became Dallas' playoff starter and a hero with a .917 save percentage that carried them to within two wins of the Stanley Cup.

 

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