Carter Hutton had the lowest goals-against average in 2017-18, with a 2.09 average.

Interpreted as:

best gaa with a minimum of 25.625 games played per 82 team games by a player 2017/18

	NAME	GAA	SEASON	TM	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	SHO	MIN
1	Carter Hutton C. Hutton	2.09	2017-18	STL	32	26	17	7	3	810	754	.931	56	3	1610
2	Antti Raanta A. Raanta	2.24	2017-18	ARI	47	46	21	17	6	1,388	1,291	.930	97	3	2599
3	Marc-Andre Fleury M. Fleury	2.24	2017-18	VGK	46	46	29	13	4	1,376	1,276	.927	100	4	2673
4	Corey Crawford C. Crawford	2.27	2017-18	CHI	28	27	16	9	2	842	782	.929	60	2	1584
5	Pekka Rinne P. Rinne	2.31	2017-18	NSH	59	59	42	13	4	1,840	1,706	.927	134	8	3475
6	Philipp Grubauer P. Grubauer	2.35	2017-18	WSH	35	28	15	10	3	953	880	.923	73	3	1865
7	Ryan Miller R. Miller	2.35	2017-18	ANA	28	21	12	6	6	739	686	.928	53	4	1353
8	Connor Hellebuyck C. Hellebuyck	2.36	2017-18	WPG	67	64	44	11	9	2,048	1,892	.924	156	6	3966
9	Tuukka Rask T. Rask	2.36	2017-18	BOS	54	53	34	14	5	1,513	1,388	.917	125	3	3173
10	Jonathan Quick J. Quick	2.40	2017-18	LAK	64	63	33	28	3	1,867	1,720	.921	147	5	3677
11	Sergei Bobrovsky S. Bobrovsky	2.42	2017-18	CBJ	65	65	37	22	6	1,993	1,835	.921	158	5	3912
12	John Gibson J. Gibson	2.43	2017-18	ANA	60	60	31	18	7	1,872	1,733	.926	139	4	3428
13	Juuse Saros J. Saros	2.45	2017-18	NSH	26	23	11	5	7	810	749	.925	61	3	1497
14	Roberto Luongo R. Luongo	2.47	2017-18	FLA	35	33	18	11	2	1,143	1,062	.929	81	3	1966
15	Ben Bishop B. Bishop	2.49	2017-18	DAL	53	51	26	17	5	1,437	1,317	.916	120	5	2887
16	Darcy Kuemper D. Kuemper	2.52	2017-18	TOT	29	25	12	7	5	833	766	.920	67	4	1596
17	Devan Dubnyk D. Dubnyk	2.52	2017-18	MIN	60	59	35	16	7	1,769	1,624	.918	145	5	3450
18	Martin Jones M. Jones	2.55	2017-18	SJS	60	60	30	22	6	1,699	1,554	.915	145	4	3416
19	Anton Khudobin A. Khudobin	2.56	2017-18	BOS	31	29	16	6	7	876	800	.913	76	1	1781
20	Kari Lehtonen K. Lehtonen	2.56	2017-18	DAL	37	30	15	14	3	946	863	.912	83	1	1944
21	Andrei Vasilevskiy A. Vasilevskiy	2.62	2017-18	TBL	65	64	44	17	3	2,075	1,908	.920	167	8	3825
22	Aaron Dell A. Dell	2.64	2017-18	SJS	29	22	15	5	4	775	708	.914	67	2	1522
23	Mike Smith M. Smith	2.65	2017-18	CGY	55	55	25	22	6	1,686	1,545	.916	141	3	3191
24	Brian Elliott B. Elliott	2.66	2017-18	PHI	43	42	23	11	7	1,228	1,116	.909	112	1	2522
25	Semyon Varlamov S. Varlamov	2.68	2017-18	COL	51	47	24	16	6	1,595	1,467	.920	128	2	2861