NHL.com player poll: Toughest goalie on breakaway

NHL.com asked 61 of the League's top players for their opinions at the NHL European and North American Player Media Tours on topics surrounding the game and its players. The second installment of a series that will run each Friday for the next several weeks focuses on who the 61 players believe is the hardest goalie to beat on a breakaway in the NHL today.

Carey Price may not have played up to his standards last season, but the Montreal Canadiens goalie remains the one who players don't want to see on a breakaway.
Price was selected by 16 of 61 NHL players as hardest goalie to beat 1-on-1. Nashville Predators goalie Pekka Rinne ranked second with nine votes.
Jonathan Quick of the Los Angeles Kings and Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers tied for third place, receiving six votes each.
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin said Price's intimidation on a breakaway is based on his flexibility.

"He's good at reading your game and I think he's really, really smart," Malkin said. "The last few years, I think he's the best goalie in the League. He's good at everything. He's the best goalie."
Price struggled last season, going 16-26-7 with an NHL career-worst 3.11 goals-against average and .900 save percentage, but those numbers don't matter to Canadiens forward Max Domi, who was acquired by Montreal in a trade with the Arizona Coyotes on June 16.
"[He] probably hurts your confidence in practice now that we're teammates and I struggle to score on him, but it'll probably help my game in the long run," Domi said.
Rinne, who won his first Vezina Trophy last season after going 42-13-4 with a 2.31 GAA and .927 save percentage, was selected by Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid, who has won the Art Ross Trophy the past two seasons.
"[He] usually gets me," McDavid said.
Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane said Rinne's size (6-foot-5) and reach make him a hard read.
"I've scored on him on a breakaway before, but I've had a lot," Kane said. "My percentage probably isn't that great. I feel like he's big, and sometimes you'll do something and miss. Then you'll have something in your mind that you want to do next and he'll cover that part of it. You really have to switch it up on him."
Quick's mobility has given players the most trouble.
"He's so agile," Boston Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy said. "When you think you have a wide-open net, that's when he comes and saves it."
Lundqvist's success is a result of his work ethic, said Minnesota Wild forward Eric Staal, who played 20 regular-season games with the Rangers during the 2015-16 season.
"I didn't play a lot with him, but we did breakaways after practice," Staal said. "He would just go and go and go, and he was tough to score on."
Best breakaway goalie voting (61 total votes)
Carey Price, Montreal Canadiens, 16; Pekka Rinne, Nashville Predators, 9; Jonathan Quick, Los Angeles Kings, 6; Henrik Lundqvist, New York Rangers, 6; Marc-Andre Fleury, Vegas Golden Knights, 5; Sergei Bobrovsky, Columbus Blue Jackets, 5; Tuukka Rask, Boston Bruins, 3; Frederik Andersen, Toronto Maple Leafs, 3; Andrei Vasilevskiy, Tampa Bay Lightning, 2; Corey Crawford, Chicago Blackhawks, 1; Braden Holtby, Washington Capitals, 1; Semyon Varlamov, Colorado Avalanche, 1; No answer given, 3