Thursday Afternoon Goalies - Week 5

To be quite literal, exactly four weeks have passed since the start of the NHL season, and today would mark the start of the fifth week, although, for many fantasy hockey owners going by a week-to-week lineup, this is also considered Week 5. Anyways, we've seen some goalies change homes this off-season, some goalies get promoted, and some goalies have come out of nowhere to perform amazingly well to start the season. Anyways, here's my first set of rankings.

1.   Kari Lehtonen
2.   Jonathan Quick
3.   Pekka Rinne
4.   Tomas Vokoun
5.   Mike Smith
6.   Cam Ward
7.   Nikolai Khabibulin
8.   Johan Hedberg
9.   Marc-Andre Fleury
10. Semyon Varlamov
11. Henrik Lundqvist
12. Ryan Miller
13. Corey Crawford
14. Jimmy Howard
15. Tim Thomas
16. Jose Theodore
17. Miikka Kiprusoff
18. Carey Price
19. Jonas Hiller
20. Craig Anderson
21. Brian Elliott
22. Ilya Bryzgalov
23. Niklas Backstrom
24. Mathieu Garon
25. Antti Niemi

Players will go up and down the rankings as the season proceeds, but I am hopefully not expecting too much change in the future. Some of these goalies are on some ridiculous paces to start the season, but as the back-ups start taking away starts, expect to see changes that reflect in the overall rankings. You'll notice that Hedberg is ranked at #8, that's because I believe he will be splitting starts with Brodeur and still end up with a majority of the starts, also, the way he's started the season is phenomenal and if he can keep it up, he'll be a top 10 goalie before the end of the season. The rankings will be out every Thursday afternoon, feel free to discuss, debate, etc.