And while the market was volatile, those closest to the game were unanimous in ranking Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy as the undisputed No. We used that to tier the perceived starting goalies for all 32 teams. Here is how it works: Corey Pronman, Michael Russo and Sean Shapiro surveyed more than three dozen experts across the NHL - a list that included general managers, head coaches, goalie coaches, goalie gurus and former goalies - and asked them to give each goalie a score between 1 and 5. It creates a fascinating backdrop for The Athletic’s annual NHL goalie tiers.
More than a dozen goalies with significant NHL experience changed teams, and five goalies that started playoff games this past postseason are now playing elsewhere.
That essentially sums up how volatile the goalie carousel was this offseason. 1 is considered by many to actually be an upgrade. And yet the goalie the Avalanche signed to replace their departing No. The goalie that finished third in the voting left Colorado to sign with a brand new franchise in Seattle.
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"And for a guy like Dabo Swinney, who's been unhappy with NIL and the (transfer portal) free agency, no - he doesn't have any NFL background and, after Urban Meyer, people should not be looking for him to go to Jacksonville, even though he's an entirely different person." "Some of these college coaches, now experiencing NIL and a form of transfer portal's free agency, are thinking to themselves, 'Have I got free agency in college? Maybe I ought to look to the NFL.' So this will be something to watch as we go through the coaching landscape. "One thing is that this does negatively impact college coaches who may have an eye on the NFL and vice versa, although I had a group of GMs tell me this week tell me that if a college coach has some NFL in his background - and there is one, David Shaw, at Stanford, he's worked with three different NFL teams, and Ryan Day, who's been with two NFL teams - that they are still on the list if they have an interest," Mortensen said. He also gave updates on Stanford coach David Shaw, Ohio State coach Ryan Day, and Clemson coach Dabo Swinney. Prior to taking the job with Jacksonville, Meyer had been a college head coach for 17 years at Bowling Green, Utah, Florida and Ohio State.ĭuring a recent edition of ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown, Mortensen went into more detail on his report. In the wake of Urban Meyer’s recent firing from the Jacksonville Jaguars, NFL general managers are now more hesitant to hire college football coaches with no prior NFL experience, according to ESPN’s Chris Mortensen.