Every NHL Team’s Goalie Drafting Record Since 2005

Take a look at which NHL teams have been the best – and worst – at drafting goalies over the past 20 years.

NHL draft picks are often called “magic beans” due to how unpredictable their value can be, and for good reason. 

There is no formula for drafting and developing NHL players. You need your amateur scouting staff, player development team and coaches at all levels working towards giving each player their best shot at making it to the NHL. After all the stars align, that player could have a career-ending injury and never play a game at the pro level.

Nowhere is this unpredictability more prevalent than in developing goalies.

Goaltending is usually a make-or-break factor for championship-hopeful teams, so there is a lot of pressure to draft and develop good goaltending to act as the backbone of your team’s Cup window, and yet, few teams actually do a good job at drafting goalies.

Here is a breakdown of each NHL team’s goalie draft record since the 2004-05 lockout. Statistics and draft information are courtesy of hockeydb.com.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 14

Highest Picked: John Gibson (39th overall, 2011)

Most NHL Games: Frederik Andersen (495 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Frederik Andersen (495 GP), John Gibson (477 GP), Lukas Dostal (67 GP), Olle Eriksson Ek (1 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 1,040

Notable: Andersen (87th overall, 2012) played 125 games in Anaheim before being traded to Toronto in 2016 ... Eriksson Ek (153rd overall, 2017) is Minnesota Wild center Joel’s brother ... Andersen and Gibson split the Jennings Trophy in 2015-16, and Andersen split another in Carolina in 2021-22.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 8

Highest Picked: Malcolm Subban (24th overall, 2012)

Most NHL Games: Michael Hutchinson (154 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Michael Hutchinson (154 GP), Jeremy Swayman (132 GP), Malcolm Subban (87 GP), Dan Vladar (75 GP), Zane McIntyre (8 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 456

Notable: Hutchinson (77th overall, 2008), who leads Boston in games played by drafted goalies, never played an NHL game for the Bruins ... Swayman (111th overall, 2017) split the Jennings Trophy in 2022-23 ... Since 2005, the Bruins have drafted the fewest number of goalies of any franchise except for Seattle and Vegas.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 13

Highest Picked: Topias Leinonen (41st overall, 2022)

Most NHL Games: Linus Ullmark (247 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Linus Ullmark (247 GP), Jhonas Enroth (153 GP), Cal Petersen (106 GP), Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (100 GP), Jonas Johansson (61 GP), Nathan Lieuwen (7 GP), Connor Knapp (2 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 676

Notables: Ullmark (163rd overall, 2012) split the Jennings Trophy in Boston in 2022-23 and won the Vezina Trophy that year ... Luukkonen (54th overall, 2017) won OHL MVP in 2018-19.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 12

Highest Picked: Leland Irving (26th overall, 2006)

Most NHL Games: Laurent Brossoit (140 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Laurent Brossoit (140 GP), Joni Ortio (37 GP), John Gillies (35 GP), Dustin Wolf (18 GP), Leland Irving (13 GP), Matt Keetley (1 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 244

Notable: Brossoit (164th overall, 2011), who leads Calgary in games played by drafted goalies, never played for the Flames ... Wolf (214th overall, 2019) is a top goaltending prospect who won AHL goalie of the year twice (2021-22 and 2022-23) and AHL MVP once (2022-23).

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 18

Highest Picked: Pyotr Kochetkov (36th overall, 2019)

Most NHL Games: Frederik Andersen* (495 GP), Alex Nedeljkovic (141 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Frederik Andersen* (495 GP), Alex Nedeljkovic (141 GP), Pyotr Kochetkov (69 GP), Mike Murphy (2 GP), Jack LaFontaine (2 GP), Eetu Makiniemi (2 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 711*/216

Notable: Andersen (187th overall, 2010) re-entered the draft after not signing a contract with the Hurricanes and was redrafted by Anaheim in 2012 ... Andersen split his second Jennings Trophy in Carolina in 2021-22 ... Nedeljkovic (37th overall, 2014) was third in Calder Trophy voting during the 2020-21 season, playing 23 games, winning 15 and posting a 1.90 goals-against average and a .932 save percentage ... The Hurricanes drafted six goaltenders in the last three years.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 14

Highest Picked: Adam Gajan (35th overall, 2023)

Most NHL Games: Matt Tomkins (6 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Matt Tomkins (6 GP), Kent Simpson (1 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 7

Notables: Blackhawks-drafted goalies have the fewest number of games played among NHL teams except for Seattle ... Matt Tomkins (199th overall, 2012) played all his games in Tampa Bay this season, so out of 14 goalie draft picks across nearly two decades, the Blackhawks have only gotten one NHL game out of them in net.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 16

Highest Picked: Calvin Pickard (49th overall, 2010), Trevor Cann (49th overall, 2007)

Most NHL Games: Calvin Pickard (139 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Calvin Pickard (139 GP), Spencer Martin (57 GP), Justus Annunen (18 GP), Sami Aittokallio (2 GP), Adam Werner (2 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 218

Notables: Calvin Pickard played as the starting goaltender for the Avs in 2016-17 after Semyon Varlamov went down with injury. Pickard had a record of 15-31-2 that year, as Colorado finished with the worst record of any non-expansion franchise since 1967 ... Pickard was selected by Vegas in the expansion draft.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 14

Highest Picked: Oscar Dansk (31st overall, 2012)

Most NHL Games: Steve Mason (476 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Steve Mason (476 GP), Joonas Korpisalo (276 GP), Elvis Merzlikins (191 GP), Anton Forsberg (160 GP), Daniil Tarasov (45 GP), Allen York (11 GP), Oscar Dansk (6 GP), Tomas Popperle (2 GP), Veini Vehvilainen (1 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 1,168

Notable: Nine of the 14 goalies Columbus has drafted since 2005 have played in the NHL, the highest percentage of any team (64 percent).

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 14

Highest Picked: Jack Campbell (11th overall, 2010)

Most NHL Games: Jake Oettinger (193 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Jake Oettinger (193 GP), Jack Campbell (176 GP), Richard Bachman (49 GP), Dylan Ferguson (3 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 421

Notable: Campbell set the record for most wins to start a season (11) in 2020-21 with the Toronto Maple Leafs, which also doubles as the longest goalie winning streak in Leafs history.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 15

Highest Picked: Sebastian Cossa (15th overall, 2021)

Most NHL Games: Petr Mrazek (390 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Petr Mrazek (390 GP), Tom McCollum (3 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 393

Notes: Cossa is a top prospect Detroit may look to get some games out of next season ... Detroit traded a 2018 conditional seventh-round pick to reacquire Tom McCollum nearly a decade after drafting him.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 14

Highest Picked: Olivier Rodrigue (62nd overall, 2018), Samu Perhonen (62nd overall, 2011)

Most NHL Games: Stuart Skinner (123 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Stuart Skinner (123 GP), Dylan Wells (1 GP), Tyler Bunz (1 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 125

Notable: Skinner (78th overall, 2017) has the lowest playoff save percentage of any goalie with over 20 games of experience since 1990.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 14

Highest Picked: Spencer Knight (13th overall, 2019)

Most NHL Games: Jacob Markstrom (485 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Jacob Markstrom (485 GP), Samuel Montembeault (144 GP), Spencer Knight (57 GP), Devon Levi (30 GP), Brian Foster (1 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 717

Notable: Markstrom (31st overall, 2008) was a key part of the deal that brought Roberto Luongo back to Florida.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 14

Highest Picked: Jonathan Bernier (11th overall, 2006)

Most NHL Games: Jonathan Quick (780 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played: Jonathan Quick (780 GP), Jonathan Bernier (404 GP), Jeff Zatkoff (48 GP), J-F Berube (40 GP), Christopher Gibson (16 GP), Matthew Villalta (2 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 1,290

Notable: Quick (72nd overall, 2005) has won three Stanley Cups, (2011-12, 2013-14, 2022-23) two Jennings Trophies (2013-14, 2017-18), a Conn Smythe (2011-12) and holds the record for most wins by an American-born goaltender... Quick has played the most games of any goalie drafted since 2005.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 12

Highest Picked: Jesper Wallstedt (20th overall, 2021)

Most NHL Games: Darcy Kuemper (389 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Darcy Kuemper (389 GP), Kaapo Kahkonen (139 GP), Matt Hackett (26 GP), Jesper Wallstedt (3 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 557

Notable: Wallstedt was the first goaltender born in Sweden to be drafted in the first round in NHL history ... Kuemper (161st overall, 2009) won the Stanley Cup as the starter for Colorado in 2021-22.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 13

Highest Picked: Carey Price (5th overall, 2005)

Most NHL Games: Carey Price (712 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Carey Price (712 GP), Cayden Primeau (44 GP), Zachary Fucale (4 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 760

Notable: Price won the Hart, Vezina, Jennings and Ted Lindsay in 2014-15.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 17

Highest Picked: Yaroslav Askarov (11th overall, 2020)

Most NHL Games: Juuse Saros (350 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Juuse Saros (350 GP), Karel Vejmelka (140 GP), Anders Lindback (130 GP), Marek Mazanec (31 GP), Magnus Hellberg (26 GP), Jeremy Smith (10 GP), Yaroslav Askarov (3 GP), Mark Dekanich (1 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 691

Notable: Nashville has had an exemplary run of drafting goalies, nabbing Rinne (258th overall, 2004), Saros (99th overall, 2013) and top prospect Askarov ... Vejmelka (145th overall, 2015) did not sign with the Predators, instead choosing to sign as a free agent in Arizona, playing a major role there in net over the last three seasons.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 12

Highest Picked: Jeff Frazee (38th overall, 2005)

Most NHL Games: Mackenzie Blackwood (196 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Mackenzie Blackwood (196 GP), Scott Wedgewood (130 GP), Nico Daws (46 GP), Akira Schmid (43 GP), Gilles Senn (2 GP), Jeff Frazee (1 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 418

Notable: The Devils drafted Martin Brodeur’s son, Anthony Brodeur (208th overall, 2013), though he never played a game in the NHL ... Schmid (136th overall, 2018) stepped in during the Devils’ 2022-23 playoff run, playing in nine games and posting a .921 save percentage before being eliminated by Carolina.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 13

Highest Picked: Mikko Koskinen (31st overall, 2009)

Most NHL Games: Ilya Sorokin (192 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Ilya Sorokin (192 GP), Mikko Koskinen (168 GP), Anders Nilsson (161 GP), Kevin Poulin (50 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 571

Notable: Sorokin (78th overall, 2014) was a Vezina finalist in 2022-23 and finished in the top 10 in voting in 2021-22 ... Eamon McAdam (70th overall, 2013) was traded 1-for-1 for Matt Martin in Lou Lamoriello’s first trade as GM of the Islanders.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 11

Highest Picked: Olof Lindblom (39th overall, 2018)

Most NHL Games: Igor Shesterkin (213 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Igor Shesterkin (213 GP), Mackenzie Skapski (2 GP), Adam Huska (1 GP), Brandon Halverson (1 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 217

Notable: Shesterkin (118th overall, 2014) won the Vezina Trophy and came in third in Hart Trophy voting during the 2021-22 season ... The Rangers drafted Tyler Wall (174th overall, 2016), a prospect with one of the best goalie names ever.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 12

Highest Picked: Mads Sogaard (37th overall, 2019)

Most NHL Games: Robin Lehner (364 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Robin Lehner (364 GP), Joey Daccord (69 GP), Chris Driedger (67 GP), Marcus Hoberg (42 GP), Mads Sogaard (27 GP), Kevin Mandolese (3 GP), Leevi Merilainen (2 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 574

Notable: Daccord (199th overall, 2015) was selected by Seattle in their expansion draft and became the Kraken’s starting goaltender this season (50 GP) ... Lehner (46th overall, 2009) split the Jennings Trophy twice, once with the Islanders in 2018-19 and once with Vegas in 2020-21.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 20

Highest Picked: Anthony Stolarz (45th overall, 2012)

Most NHL Games: Carter Hart (227 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Carter Hart (227 GP), Anthony Stolarz (108 GP), Samuel Ersson (63 GP), Felix Sandstrom (30 GP), Ivan Fedotov (3 GP), Jeremy Duchesne (1 GP), Joacim Eriksson (1 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 433

Notable: The Flyers signed undrafted free agent Sergei Bobrovsky in 2010, who has played nearly 300 more games than the rest of the Flyers goalie draft picks since 2005 combined. The Flyers traded Bobrovsky after two seasons to Columbus for draft picks, one of which was used to select Stolarz. Bobrovsky went on to win two Vezina Trophies in Columbus (2012-13, 2016-17) ... Hart (48th overall, 2016) is currently on an indefinite leave of absence while facing one charge of sexual assault, which has not been tested in court.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 10

Highest Picked: Tristan Jarry (44th overall, 2013)

Most NHL Games: Matt Murray (272 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Matt Murray (272 GP), Tristan Jarry (257 GP), Chad Johnson (192 GP), Filip Gustavsson (111 GP), Alexander Pechurskiy (1 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 833

Notable: Murray (83rd overall, 2012) won two Stanley Cups with the Penguins as their starter in the 2015-16 playoffs and splitting the net with Marc-Andre Fleury in 2016-17 ... In his first full season in the AHL, Joel Blomqvist (52nd overall, 2020) was named to the AHL's second all-star team, as well as the all-rookie team as the league’s best rookie goaltender.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 11

Highest Picked: Benjamin Gaudreau (81st overall, 2021)

Most NHL Games: Alex Stalock (179 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Alex Stalock (179 GP), Harri Sateri (15 GP), Timo Pielmeier (1 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 195

Notable: Sateri (106th overall, 2008) has had three separate stints in North America, most recently signing with Toronto in March 2022 before being claimed off waivers by Arizona just a day later ... Gaudreau backstopped Team Canada to gold at the 2021 World Men's U-18 tournament, earning honors as the tournament’s best goaltender. He also won gold with the world juniors team in 2022-23. Gaudreau did not sign a contract with the Sharks and has since signed an amateur tryout contract with Tampa Bay’s AHL affiliate, the Syracuse Crunch.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2021: 3

Highest Picked: Niklas Kokko (58th overall, 2022)

Most NHL Games: N/A

Goalies Who’ve Played: N/A

Total NHL Games Played in the NHL: N/A

Notable: Seattle has selected a goaltender in each of its first three drafts.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 14

Highest Picked: Jake Allen (34th overall, 2008)

Most NHL Games: Jake Allen (429 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Jake Allen (429 GP), Ben Bishop (413 GP), Jordan Binnington (280 GP), Ville Husso (132 GP), Reto Berra (76 GP), Joel Hofer (38 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 1,368

Notable: Bishop (85th overall, 2005) never had a losing record in a full regular season, finished in the top three in Vezina voting three times and ended his career with a .921 save percentage ... Binnington (88th overall, 2011) jumped into the Blues lineup partway through the 2018-19 season when the team was struggling and was a huge part of the team’s comeback from 31st in the NHL in January to winning the Cup that year, collecting all 16 post-season wins on the way.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 16

Highest Picked: Riku Helenius (15th overall, 2006)

Most NHL Games: Andrei Vasilevskiy (477 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Andrei Vasilevskiy (477 GP), Connor Ingram (80 GP), Dustin Tokarski (80 GP), Magnus Chrona (9 GP), Kristers Gudlevskis (3 GP), Riku Helenius (1 GP), Adam Wilcox (1 GP), Hugo Alnefelt (1 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 652

Notable: Tampa Bay is the only team to draft multiple goalies in the top 20 (Helenius 15th overall in 2006, Vasilevskiy 19th overall in 2012) ... Vasilevskiy has won two Stanley Cups with Tampa Bay, earning the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP in 2021, and was nominated for the Vezina four years in a row from 2017-18 to 2020-21, winning it in 2018-19.

Number of Goalies Picked Since 2005: 11

Highest Picked: Tuukka Rask (21st overall, 2005)

Most NHL Games: Tuukka Rask (564 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Tuukka Rask (564 GP), James Reimer (501 GP), Garret Sparks (40 GP), Joseph Woll (36 GP), Antoine Bibeau (4 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 1,145

Notable: Rask is the leader in games played by any goalie drafted by the Leafs since 2005, but he played a grand total of zero games for the Leafs after they infamously traded him to Boston in 2006 for Calder Trophy-winning netminder Andrew Raycroft, who was bought out in 2008.

Number of Goalies Selected Since 2005: 17

Highest Picked: Mark Visentin (27th overall, 2010)

Most NHL Games: Louis Domingue (143 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Louis Domingue (143 GP), Adin Hill (136 GP), Scott Darling (126 GP), Erik Kallgren (24 GP), Ivan Prosvetov (24 GP), Marek Langhamer (2 GP), Mark Visentin (1 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 456

Notable: At the beginning of the 2022-23 season, Adin Hill (76th overall, 2015) was half of a Vegas tandem with Logan Thompson, but after Thompson went down with injury shortly before the playoffs, Hill was able to step up, winning 14 games on the path to getting the Golden Knights their first Cup in franchise history.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 11

Highest Picked: Thatcher Demko (36th overall, 2014)

Most NHL Games: Thatcher Demko (219 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Thatcher Demko (219 GP), Arturs Silovs (9 GP), Michael DiPietro (3 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 231

Notable: Silovs (156th overall, 2019) stepped into the Vancouver net this playoff season after Demko and DeSmith both went down with injury, playing in 10 games (one more than his regular-season total) and helping Vancouver to the second round before falling to Edmonton ... Demko became a Vezina finalist for the first time in 2023-24, after leading the Canucks to the post-season with a 35-14-2 record and a .918 save percentage.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2017: 7

Highest Picked: Maksim Zhukov (96th overall, 2017)

Most NHL Games: Jiri Patera (8 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Jiri Patera (8 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 8

Notable: Patera (161st overall, 2017) has played more games for the Golden Knights than all the Chicago Blackhawks’ drafted goalies since 2005.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 14

Highest Picked: Ilya Samsonov (22nd overall, 2015)

Most NHL Games: Semyon Varlamov (611 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Semyon Varlamov (611 GP), Braden Holtby (513 GP), Philipp Grubauer (343 GP), Michal Neuvirth (257 GP), Ilya Samsonov (171 GP), Vitek Vanecek (163 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 2,059

Notable: The Capitals have been the best team at drafting goalie talent since 2005 by far. Goalies drafted by them have gone on to play nearly 700 more games than the next closest franchise ... Holtby (93rd overall, 2008) won a Vezina Trophy in 2015-16, a Jennings Trophy in 2016-17 and a Stanley Cup in 2017-18 ... Varlamov (23rd overall, 2006) is one of only four Russian-born goaltenders to play in more than 600 games, trailing only Nikolai Khabibulin, Bobrovsky and Evgeni Nabokov.

Number of Goalies Drafted Since 2005: 15

Highest Picked: Ondrej Pavelec (41st overall, 2005)

Most NHL Games: Connor Hellebuyck (505 GP)

Goalies Who’ve Played in the NHL: Connor Hellebuyck (505 GP), Ondrej Pavelec (398 GP), Eric Comrie (57 GP), Edward Pasquale (3 GP), Jason Kasdorf (1 GP)

Total NHL Games Played: 964

Notable: Hellebuyck (130th overall, 2012) has been nominated for the Vezina four times, winning in 2019-20, and he has a chance to win again this year ... Pavelec, who was originally drafted by the Atlanta Thrashers, put up a .920 save percentage in 2014-15 to help bring the Winnipeg Jets to the post-season for the first time since moving to Manitoba. Pavelec played in all four games that the Jets played before being swept from the first round.

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