Fantasy hockey goalie tandem rankings
Varlamov, Sorokin top list of teammates to consider stacking in standard leagues
by Pete Jensen @NHLJensen / NHL.com Senior Fantasy Editor
NHL.com provides each team's goalie depth chart and ranks the tandems for potential fantasy hockey stacking options this season. For more coverage, visit NHL.com/Fantasy and subscribe for free to the NHL Fantasy on Ice podcast.
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FANTASY GOALIE TANDEM RANKINGS
NOTES: Factors taken into account in these rankings include past performance (especially save percentage) in regular season and Stanley Cup Playoffs, team goalie situations and penalty kill, anticipated start volume, coach and system, quality of defense, reliability of secondary goalie(s), projected goal support (or lack thereof), injury concern (INJ.), sleeper, bounce-back or breakout potential, anticipated regression, age, contract status, strength of division and overall upside for this season. These rankings are also applicable to any fantasy leagues that have team goalies (similar to team defenses in fantasy football).
1. NYI: Semyon Varlamov, Ilya Sorokin
2. TBL: Andrei Vasilevskiy, Brian Elliott, Maxime Lagace
3. COL: Darcy Kuemper, Pavel Francouz, Jonas Johansson
4. VGK: Robin Lehner, Laurent Brossoit
5. MIN: Cam Talbot, Kaapo Kahkonen
6. BOS: Linus Ullmark, Jeremy Swayman, Tuukka Rask (UFA - INJ.)
7. FLA: Spencer Knight, Sergei Bobrovsky
8. MTL: Carey Price (INJ.), Jake Allen
9. DAL: Jake Oettinger, Braden Holtby, Anton Khudobin, Ben Bishop (INJ.)
10. WSH: Ilya Samsonov, Vitek Vanecek
11. CHI: Marc-Andre Fleury, Kevin Lankinen, Malcolm Subban
12. NYR: Igor Shesterkin, Alexandar Georgiev
13. SEA: Philipp Grubauer, Chris Driedger
14. TOR: Jack Campbell, Petr Mrazek, Michael Hutchinson
15. CAR: Frederik Andersen, Antti Raanta
16. WPG: Connor Hellebuyck, Eric Comrie
17. NSH: Juuse Saros, David Rittich
18. VAN: Thatcher Demko, Jaroslav Halak
19. PIT: Tristan Jarry, Casey DeSmith
20. STL: Jordan Binnington, Ville Husso
21. DET: Alex Nedeljkovic, Thomas Greiss
22. LAK: Jonathan Quick, Calvin Petersen
23. EDM: Mike Smith, Mikko Koskinen
24. PHI: Carter Hart, Martin Jones
25. NJD: Mackenzie Blackwood, Jonathan Bernier
26. CGY: Jacob Markstrom, Dan Vladar
27. CBJ: Elvis Merzlikins, Joonas Korpisalo
28. ANA: John Gibson, Anthony Stolarz
29. OTT: Matt Murray, Filip Gustavsson, Anton Forsberg
30. SJS: James Reimer, Adin Hill, Alexei Melnichuk
31. BUF: Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, Craig Anderson, Aaron Dell
32. ARI: Josef Korenar, Carter Hutton
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