Given our measure of NHL goalie performance, here is the top 20 ranking for NHL goalies over the 2011-2012 regular season. (I hope to get some time to give a step-by-step guide as to how I am getting the WAA numbers later this month.)
Rank | Player | Team | WAA | SV% | ||
1 | Mike Smith | PHX | 3.767 | 0.930 | ||
2 | Henrik Lundqvist | NYR | 3.196 | 0.930 | ||
3 | Jonathan Quick | LAK | 3.191 | 0.929 | ||
4 | Brian Elliott | STL | 2.849 | 0.940 | ||
5 | Cory Schneider | VAN | 2.456 | 0.937 | ||
6 | Pekka Rinne | NSH | 2.256 | 0.923 | ||
7 | Miikka Kiprusoff | CGY | 1.686 | 0.921 | ||
8 | Jaroslav Halak | STL | 1.672 | 0.926 | ||
9 | Kari Lehtonen | DAL | 1.630 | 0.922 | ||
10 | Tim Thomas | BOS | 1.187 | 0.920 | ||
11 | Jimmy Howard | DET | 1.071 | 0.920 | ||
12 | Tuukka Rask | BOS | 1.064 | 0.929 | ||
13 | Roberto Luongo | VAN | 0.954 | 0.919 | ||
14 | Niklas Backstrom | MIN | 0.786 | 0.919 | ||
15 | Jose Theodore | FLA | 0.576 | 0.917 | ||
16 | Carey Price | MTL | 0.522 | 0.916 | ||
17 | Jean-Sebastien Giguere | COL | 0.514 | 0.919 | ||
18 | Tomas Vokoun | WSH | 0.498 | 0.917 | ||
19 | Ryan Miller | BUF | 0.488 | 0.916 | ||
20 | Justin Peters | CAR | 0.451 | 0.931 |