Those who keep up with the Hockey Abstract books are familiar with our quick-and-dirty ranking of NHL teams that is achieved by taking a weighted average of each goalie's NHL stats over the past three seasons, and combined the starter and the backup in a 3-to-1 ratio. That does the job at a high level, but I'm going to go a little deeper here today. Not a lot deeper, just a little.

Specifically, I took that same weighted average over the past three seasons (or, technically, three and a third), and also added each goalie's AHL data. I've also added a regression component for those goalies who haven't faced at least 5,000 shots. One possible program is that this regression component might actually boost goalies who have barely played above goalies who have played a lot but haven't done very well. Finally, I'm going to go beyond just the starter and the backup, and look at the team's depth, as well. 

Oh, and no, this does not factor in shot quality factors, like shot location or even manpower situation. It doesn't include the shootout, or any fancy metrics. It's just straight-up save percentage, with all its strengths and shortcomings. As you will probably notice, the rankings in brackets refer to where the goalie ranks within his tier (starter, backup, depth), and not where he ranks overall. Ok, here we go.

1. Chicago Blackhawks

2. Columbus Blue Jackets

Starter: Sergei Bobrovsky .9262 (1st)

Backup: Joonas Korpisalo .9123 (18th)

Depth: Matiss Kivlenieks .9065 (50th)