Brian Elliott, Matt Murray, Martin Jones, Andrei Vasilevskiy: Those were your four starting goalies as of Sunday as the NHL wended its way into the conference finals. Household names, any? Definitely not. In fact, none of them are even among the top 28 highest-paid goalies in the NHL, according to Spotrac.
In the recently concluded Western Conference semifinals between the Blues and Stars, Elliott played against two Dallas goalies, Kari Lehtonen and Antti Niemi, who combined pulled down $10.4 million in salary this season—$5.9 million for Lehtonen and $4.5 million for Niemi. The Blues paid $2.5 million to Elliott, and that's his salary for next season too.
In the first round of their series with the Rangers, the Penguins handily won with two no-name goalies making less than $625,000 each in Murray and Jeff Zatkoff, while the league's highest-paid goalie, Henrik Lundqvist at $8.5 million, struggled.
Jones outplayed higher-priced goalies— the Kings' Jonathan Quick and the Predators' Pekka Rinne—in getting the Sharks to the conference finals, while Vasilevskiy made Tampa Bay fans quickly ...
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No-Name Goalies Proving Big Salaries Don’t Always Matter in NHL Playoffs
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