choose your goalie fighter

which goalie from the 2025-26 season would hypothetically be the best fighter? this is a silly, bracket-style poll tournament that's not meant to be taken seriously. bots are not allowed!! pwhl polls will be added when we’re a couple rounds into the nhl ones

[goaliefightpolls]

choose your goalie fighters

this will be a bracket-style poll tournament where we'll decide which goalies would win in hypothetical fights. we're not voting for which goalie we like the most or which one is better at being a goalie! please vote for the goalie who you think would win against their opponent if they dropped the gloves.

I made a survey if you want to guess the winner or suggest a match-up! suggested match-ups won't be part of the main bracket but might be added as bonus polls during later rounds

the nhl bracket is here!

the pwhl bracket is here :)

there are more details below:

all polls for each round will be posted at the same time, and the duration of the polls will start at 3 days before changing to a week once we get closer to the final rounds. since the nhl is a bigger league with more teams and goalies, the first week or so of polls will be nhl-only so that the nhl and pwhl brackets will end around the same time.

in the first few days of polls, you'll be able to choose a goalie from each team to represent that team in the bracket.* these goalies will be added to a bracket generator and shuffled randomly to create the tournament brackets, which I'll eventually link in this pinned post.

*some teams (like the knights and stars) don't have preliminary team polls. adin hill and jake oettinger will automatically be in the nhl round one.

propaganda policy

feel free to reblog polls with propaganda or make your own propaganda post with @goaliefightpolls tagged, and I'll reblog! I'll also check this blog's inbox, but this is a sideblog, so my responses might be slow

bot policy

please don't use bots!! I reserve the right to disqualify one or both of the goalies in a poll if it seems to be botted. there's no way for me to control whether someone sneakily uses bots, but please don't ruin the fun of the polls by cheating

[goaliefightpolls]

it's the end of the goalie fight poll tournament! the final winners from each league are below:

pwhl

ann-renée desbiens won, and aerin frankel was the runner-up

nhl

anthony stolarz won, and andrei vasilevskiy was the runner-up

before the tournament started, I set up a survey to ask people to share the goalies who they thought were most likely to get into and win a fight. this was after the ned/bob fight but before the sway/vasy fight, so the respondents who suggested swayman and vasilevskiy were spot on. the survey also asked for each respondent's dream goalie fight match-up and who they thought would win in that match-up. I tallied the results and put them into charts below the read more:

which goalie from the pwhl do you think would be the most likely to get into and win a fight?

which goalie from the nhl do you think would be the most likely to get into and win a fight?

what would be your dream goalie fight? (which goalies would be in it, and who do you think would win?)

these are organized alphabetically by loser. pwhl players are highlighted blue. I removed carter hart and casey desmith from the results, but they did each get losing votes

here are the winners and losers organized by frequency. these only include wins from the dream match-ups, so they aren't affected by the data from the bar charts above:

[goaliefightpolls]

which of these goalies would win in a fight?

ann-renée desbiens

aerin frankel

not sure/want to see results

Voting ended onFeb 26

this is the final poll! whoever wins this will win the entire pwhl bracket

[mls-classics]

Propaganda for the PWHL final. Look. Frankel's great. She's jacked! She's got a ton of fight for her size. But one of these goalies has the record for most penalty minutes by a goalie in the PWHL, and it's not Frankel. Exhibit A:

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[goaliefightpolls]

which of these goalies would win in a fight?

andrei vasilevskiy

anthony stolarz

not sure/want to see results

Voting ended onFeb 26

this is the final poll! whoever wins this will win the entire nhl bracket

[goaliefightpolls]

which of these goalies would win in a fight?

ann-renée desbiens

aerin frankel

not sure/want to see results

Voting ended onFeb 26

this is the final poll! whoever wins this will win the entire pwhl bracket

[goaliefightpolls]

which of these goalies would win in a fight?

gwyneth philips

aerin frankel

not sure/want to see results

Voting ended onFeb 17

[pwhl-mybeloved]

[goaliefightpolls]

sending in some Phillips propaganda as while i think both her and Frankel look like a Cinnamon roll, I think she falls on the "could actually kill you" side of that alignment chart.

In addition to pushing people out of her crease, she also tried to check an opposing player against the boards once.

https://www.tumblr.com/pwhl-mybeloved/804757859519856640

thank you for the propaganda! I’m adding a clickable link here

[goaliefightpolls]

In light of new info from the Boston Fleet socials, I think I have to change my propaganda to Frankel...

thank you for this! 🩵

[goaliefightpolls]

which of these goalies would win in a fight?

gwyneth philips

aerin frankel

not sure/want to see results

Voting ended onFeb 17

[mls-classics]

Look, Frankel is my goalie. She's the rock. The glue that holds together the Fleet and has carried us for three seasons.

But against this?

Sorry. I gotta vote Gwyn.

[goaliefightpolls]

which of these goalies would win in a fight?

alex nedeljkovic

anthony stolarz

not sure/want to see results

Voting ended onFeb 17

[moon-honey-31]

[goaliefightpolls]

which of these goalies would win in a fight?

andrei vasilevskiy

philipp grubauer

not sure/want to see results

Voting ended onFeb 17

[goaliefightpolls]

which of these goalies would win in a fight?

alex nedeljkovic

anthony stolarz

not sure/want to see results

Voting ended onFeb 17

[goaliefightpolls]

which of these goalies would win in a fight?

gwyneth philips

aerin frankel

not sure/want to see results

Voting ended onFeb 17

[goaliefightpolls]

which of these goalies would win in a fight?

ann-renée desbiens

kayle osborne

not sure/want to see results

Voting ended onFeb 17

[goaliefightpolls]

which of these goalies would win in a fight?

aerin frankel

elaine chuli

not sure/want to see results

Voting ended onFeb 9

[goaliefightpolls]

which of these goalies would win in a fight?

gwyneth philips

kristen campbell

not sure/want to see results

Voting ended onFeb 9