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THN ranks the goalies

This week's edition of The Hockey News offers a ranking of the Top 30 netminders in the NHL, an order meted out by seven former pro goaltenders:

  1. Martin Brodeur
  2. Roberto Luongo
  3. Miikka Kiprusoff
  4. J-S Giguere
  5. Dominik Hasek
  6. Ryan Miller
  7. Ray Emery
  8. Marty Turco
  9. Vesa Toskala
  10. Marc-Andre Fleury
  11. Kari Lehtonen
  12. Chris Mason
  13. Rick DiPietro
  14. Cam ward
  15. Manny Fernandez
  16. Henrik Lundqvist
  17. Olaf Kolzig
  18. Dwayne Rolsoon
  19. Andrew Raycroft
  20. Tomas Vokoun
  21. Cristobal Huet
  22. Manny Legace
  23. Johan Holmqvist
  24. Nikolai Khabibulin
  25. Peter Budaj
  26. Evgeni Nabokov
  27. Martin Biron
  28. Tim Thomas
  29. Ed Belfour
  30. Curtis Joseph
The list is fairly solid, although obviously very heavily weighted to this season. I wouldn't have put Marc-Andre Fleury in the Top 10, for example, and Chris Mason is far too high based on what I've seen (a few weeks of excellent play does not a great netminder make).

The Wild's Niklas Backstrom gets left off the list altogether despite his strong play, and Curtis Sanford and Mathieu Garon have played well on terrible teams. (And if you really want to reward someone for a short burst of strong netminding, Sean Burke has been downright stellar.)

I think Cristobal Huet should also get a bump up from 21st.

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