What follows are my rankings of the best goaltending prospects outside the NHL, serving as a conclusion to the summer series looking at the talent in each NHL organization. This is a ranking of all the goalie prospects who I think will become full-time NHL players. I ranked the top skaters separately.



Here I re-introduce tools grades on the 20-80 scale that were not present in the farm rankings. In this scale, 50 projects as pro average, 55 as above-average, 60 top third, 70 as elite and 80 as among the very best; 45 is below-average and 40 is fringe pro quality.



The tiers and analysis did not change much from what I wrote in the team rankings this summer, with slight modifications accounting for any games that took place in the past month, in NHL camps and in preseason overseas.



The previous ranking refers to how I ranked the prospects at the start of the 2018-19 season, as I think it is a better comparable than the midseason ranking.



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