Who is the best NHL goaltender of all-time?
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Patrick Roy... Hands down.\n\nNumber 1 in career wins.\n4 Stanley Cup rings.\nThe only 3 time Conn-Smythe Trophy winner (playoff MVP)\n3 time Vezina Trophy winner.\nCarried the '93 Canadians in winning the Stanley Cup and won an NHL record 10 games in OT during that playoff run.
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For me its Lev Yashin who inspired USSR to win 1956 Olympics Gold and European Championships in 1960 \n\nFifa have an award called the Lev Yashin Trophy which is given to the best goalkeeper at each World Cup Finals. \n\n\nMentions also for Banks & Zoff who both won World Cups and despite his crazy antics Fabien Barthez who won World Cup & European Championships with France.
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I assume you mean in the NHL. Most career goals: Wayne Gretzky, 894. Most goals, one season: Wayne Gretzky, 92 (1981-82). Most career playoff goals: Wayne Gretzky, 122. Most playoff goals, one season: Wayne Gretzky, 17 (1984-85). Most goals in one game: Joe Malone, 7 (Jan. 31, 1920).
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Mike Comrie and Nathan Horton.\n\nComrie has been steady the entire year. \nHorton is a pure goal scorer. (no asts) And has shown signs of great skill lately with teh hat trick.
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1. bertuzzi\n2. eric lindros\n3. chris chelios\n4. claude lemieux\n5. tie domi\n6. darius kasparitis\n7. vladimir konstantionov ( before his accident)\n8. marty mcsorley\nthose are my picks for the most hated players now.  bertuzzi is just the dirtiest player in the nhl.  lindros is a goon who throws his body around.  chelios is just a tough guy who defends very roughly.  claude lemieux hit a red wing player from behind and it was a dirty hit.  when he was beat up in march of 1997 by mccarty he cowered like a wimp.  tie domi likes to fight.  kasparaitis is just a goon.  vlady was like a big bull dog.  he'd hit anyone regardless of their size.  fearless.  mcsorley was a goon who was racist.  he is a goon who hits dirty.  i think he was banned becuz of the dirty hit he did.
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THE BEST ONE OF ALL TIME\n\n PATRICK ROY (WAH)
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check this out:\nhttp://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/leagues/seasons/teams/0000531974.html\n\nmaybe it will help. According to these stats, I would say that Bruce Corwick might be the only one.
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Well, I can't really imagine that you are satisfied with the wide array of responses up above as neither they really address the question or even attempt to back it up whatsoever.  So here it is:\n\nThere has and always will be a debate over who is the greatest NHL team of all-time.  If you are wondering what has been the winniest franchise throughout history, it would be the Montreal Canadiens, who have won 24 Stanley Cups since 1917 when the NHL began it's official operations.  Next closest is the Toronto Maple Leafs with something like 12, but who really cares because they haven't won it since like 1967 and probably never will again at the rate that they are going.\n\nBut the best team of players ever assembled.  If you would like to read what Sports Illustrated's Tom Layberger has said on the subject, go to this link:\n\nhttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/tom_layberger/03/01/dominant.teams/\n\nHe lays out the top 10 teams of all-time in great detail.\n\nIf you want my opinion and likely anyone else with half a hockey brain to name the best team of all-time it would have to be the Edmonton Oilers between 1983-1984, 1984-1985.  They were stacked:  \nGrant Fuhr - a stone wall of a goalie, \nMark Messier - A solid skating, shit-kicking centre, \nGlenn Anderson - high speed winger, \nPaul Coffey - arguably to this day the greatest defenceman of all-time, \nKevin Lowe - current GM of the Edmonton Oilers, \nEsa Tikkanen, Old school version of Ville Nimmenen - annoying Finn player who scores goals and plays cagy defence, \nJari Kurri - the all-time leading Finnish points leader, who ALWAYS found the back of the net in clutch times,\nAnd all coached by Glen Sather - a revolutionary coach who demanded the best of his players and competed to always win.\n\nI am of course omitting one name:\nWayne Gretzky is undisputably the greatest NHL hockey player of all-time.  "The great one" holds more hockey scoring records than entire other teams combined.  Entire pages have been re-written into the record books and there they will remain in stone as they will never be broken.  His single season record of 212 points in a season will likely never be broken; 50 goals in 35 games is completely untouchable, and the fact is, he managed to amass these massive point totals over years and in clutch times in the playoffs as well.\n\nGretzky revolutionized hockey in a way that one way ever has before.  His quote:  "Well, I think an assist is just as good as a goal." is often repeated in minor hockey arenas.  His idea of using the boards, behind the net, other players' skates/bodies is completely unparalled.  He was fast, had a deadly accurate shot, and made behind the back passes while looking the other way to teammates who were practically too stunned to do anything about it.\n\nI saw Gretzky once score a goal right off the face-off.  That's how good he was.  I remember when he used to shoot the puck down the ice like it was icing, only to see it bounce in a funny way off the boards and straight to Jari Kurri for an easy tap-in.  Dude, Gretzky was seriously ridiculously good.  \n\nNow, the Edmonton Oilers won the cup 4 out of 5 years, between 83 and 88, although interestingly lost out in the 1985-1986 season in one of the most famed playoff series of all-time:\n  \nIn game 7 in the opening round against their arch-rivals The Calgary Flames, with 2.4 seconds left, Steve Smith (a defenceman for the Oilers) skated around the net in his own zone and in a completely harmless play accidentally passed the puck into his own net!  This play has been re-shown and re-played probably 1,000,000 times to hockey fans everywhere and became fashionable to say:  "To pull a Steve Smith."  The fans went nuts of course, and so did the media who of course expected the Oilers to coast to an easy 3rd straight Stanley Cup.\n\nAnd do you know how classy Wayne Gretzky is?  He said to the media, to the fans, to the
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Man, this is not an easy one! There are so many choices.\nOh, well... Here is my opinion. Very subjective, of course.\n\nG - Patrick Roy or Terry Sawchuck (couldn't make up my mind)\nD - Ray Bourque, Doug Harvey\nLW - Bobby Hull\nRW - Gordie Howe\nC - Wayne Gretzky
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I truly don't think he's either one. Gretzky was one of a kind, and Lemieux was the best pure goal scorer ever to play the game. Crosby's good, he's tough, but he's not in the class of Gretzky, Lemieux and, I'll add, Bobby Orr.
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Ovechkin, Heatley and Kovalchuk are all candidates. But I'd go with Ovechkin. He's the youngest and he's got the most potential.
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If you can find pictures (good luck) you need to check out Kevin Weekes (N.Y. Rangers) and some of his mask designs. Not a great goaler but the man has had some incredible paint jobs everywhere he has played. He also uses different themes to "keep em fresh" and favors some of the fade in style (very clever details faded on to the mask). My personal favorite of his was a Panthers mask that was chromed out with a palm tree and Florida themed motif.Gotta look closely to see the finest details but the masks are truly amazing.\n    And a personal favorite of mine is the old time Gary Cheevers mask, nothing says hockey like a face full of stitches!!!
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"Michel Plasse if you mean the first in proffesional hockey, non-NHL."\n\nCopied from: http://www.hockeyforums.com/showthread.php?t=6955
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Lidstrom is the best, but Chris Chelios is in the same class with him.  The Red Wings are fortunate to have two great defensemen like those two.  Both are locks for the Hall of Fame when they finally hang 'em up.\n\nBobby Orr was a great player on a great Bruins team, but he was an offensive defenseman.  I was a hockey fan (Red Wings of course) in the years when Orr was the leader of that Boston team along with Phil Esposito, Gerry Cheevers, John McKenzie, Derek Sanderson, Johnny Bucyk and others.  Orr was an original, a defenseman who was offense-minded.  He strayed from the blue line more than any d-man had up to that time.  He scored a lot of goals, but was often up ice so much that it put a lot of pressure on the other defenseman.  Great player, but for pure defense, I'd take Lidstrom or Chelios any day.
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Right now when healthy it's either Forsberg or Jagr.\nIn a couple of years it's going to be Ovechkin. He's only 20 and he's already one of the most exciting players to watch.
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Have to go with Ottawa's Brian McGrattan.  The guy's huge and loves to fight.  Maybe too much!
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Favorite current player is Peter Forsberg.  I know this is a easy choice, but when you have the best hockey player on the planet on your team, it's kinda hard not to like him.\n\nForsberg is a force and is very talented.\n\nAs for current and the past- I have to go with Ron Hextall.  I was too young for the Cups of Barber, Parent and Clarkey.  Hextall was a great goalie with a huge mean streak.  Gotta love 'em!