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Best "tandem" is Andersen-Ranta, followed closely by Sorokin-Varlamov
3rd: Bobrovsky-Knight
4th: Quick-Peterson
Swayman-Ullmark is pretty good but gave the edge to playoff success.
Jarry-DeSmith and Talbot-Forsberg have to be in the conversation as well.
Lehner-Thompson in Vegas seems good, but they also have Brossoit as "#2" so I'm not as high on him in the tandem. Interested to see if Lankinen can rebound in Nashville to give them a true duo.
I'm looking at it from best chance to win with either goalie in net for that particular team; as in if the starter went down could you keep winning (with the preface that you are winning more than losing with the starter).
Workhorse goalies with weak backups aren't factored in since they are not a "tandem"; those teams literally fall off a cliff when their starter goes out with injury or has a bad streak. ie Saros in playoffs.
I'd rank Georgiev-Francouz over Husso-Nedeljkovic, Murray-Samsonov and Vanecek-Blackwood but behind those above; mostly due to Francouz stability versus the other #2s