NHL Top 50 Goalies Of 2011/12

Sure we might be a week or two past the official half way point, but none the less here are my goaltender rankings for the first half of the 2011/12 NHL season. This is mostly on a per game basis with a minimum of 10 GPs, with categories including winning percentage, goals against average, save percentage, and shutouts. There are some back-up goalies ranked quite high, which might be partially attributable to the strength of the opponent the back-up tends to face. There is no question that in the 16 games he's played, Tuukka Rask has been the best goalie in the NHL, though Tim Thomas tends to get the starts against the very best teams. I suppose that I could adjust rankings for strength of schedule, but I'd have to build that database from scratch and don't have the time today. Maybe next time.

rank		PLAYER	TEAM	GP	W	GAA	SVPCT
1	.	Tuukka Rask	BOS	16	11	1.61	0.946
2	.	Brian Elliott	STL	22	15	1.68	0.937
3	.	Tim Thomas	BOS	29	18	2.06	0.935
4	.	Henrik Lundqvist	NYR	33	20	1.90	0.937
5	.	Jimmy Howard	DET	38	27	1.98	0.926
6	.	Jonathan Quick	LA	39	20	1.95	0.934
7	.	Martin Biron	NYR	12	9	1.87	0.927
8	.	Cory Schneider	VAN	19	10	2.30	0.927
9	.	Jaroslav Halak	STL	24	12	2.08	0.918
10	.	Jean-Sebastien Giguere	COL	20	11	2.12	0.923
11	.	Antti Niemi	SJ	34	20	2.27	0.920
12	.	Pekka Rinne	NSH	41	24	2.50	0.922
13	.	Marc-Andre Fleury	PIT	38	22	2.23	0.914
14	.	Tomas Vokoun	WSH	33	19	2.53	0.917
15	.	Thomas Greiss	SJ	10	6	2.09	0.926
16	.	Kari Lehtonen	DAL	27	16	2.47	0.919
17	.	Roberto Luongo	VAN	32	18	2.39	0.918
18	.	Miikka Kiprusoff	CGY	40	20	2.39	0.918
19	.	Sergei Bobrovsky	PHI	17	10	2.42	0.921
20	.	Niklas Backstrom	MIN	28	12	2.39	0.923
21	.	Chris Mason	WPG	13	6	2.30	0.913
22	.	Richard Bachman	DAL	11	6	2.48	0.919
23	.	Johan Hedberg	NJ	21	12	2.45	0.909
24	.	Mike Smith	PHX	35	17	2.43	0.923
25	.	Jose Theodore	FLA	30	14	2.48	0.918
26	.	Nikolai Khabibulin	EDM	28	11	2.41	0.919
27	.	Josh Harding	MIN	20	8	2.44	0.925
28	.	Ray Emery	CHI	16	10	2.67	0.907
29	.	Jonas Gustavsson	TOR	23	13	2.92	0.906
30	.	Craig Anderson	OTT	43	24	2.91	0.910
31	.	Carey Price	MTL	40	15	2.45	0.912
32	.	Al Montoya	NYI	17	6	2.45	0.917
33	.	Jhonas Enroth	BUF	23	8	2.59	0.919
34	.	Corey Crawford	CHI	34	18	2.81	0.904
35	.	Evgeni Nabokov	NYI	21	8	2.50	0.912
36	.	Curtis Sanford	CBJ	23	8	2.54	0.912
37	.	Martin Brodeur	NJ	28	14	2.82	0.895
38	.	Ondrej Pavelec	WPG	38	15	2.88	0.909
39	.	Ilya Bryzgalov	PHI	31	17	3.00	0.893
40	.	Michal Neuvirth	WSH	18	6	3.02	0.894
41	.	Semyon Varlamov	COL	30	14	3.00	0.899
42	.	Scott Clemmensen	FLA	13	5	2.80	0.908
43	.	Jason LaBarbera	PHX	14	3	2.82	0.907
44	.	Jonas Hiller	ANA	39	13	2.93	0.903
45	.	Cam Ward	CAR	41	16	3.01	0.905
46	.	Devan Dubnyk	EDM	20	6	3.05	0.903
47	.	James Reimer	TOR	18	7	3.01	0.899
48	.	Mathieu Garon	TB	31	12	3.02	0.899
49	.	Ryan Miller	BUF	27	11	3.12	0.898
50	.	Andrew Raycroft	DAL	10	2	3.51	0.898