So good to see Lafreniere doing NHL highlight real plays, like he did in Junior Hockey.
Well there's Detroit: Hall, Sawchuk, Hasek, Vernon, Lumley, OsgoodBig gap between Giacomin and VBK.Rangers have a history of great goaltenders?
Yep...
Lorne Chabot, Dave Kerr, Chuck Rayner, Gump Worsley, Eddie Giacomin, Mike Richter, Henrik Lundqvist and now Shesterkin
Not exactly Vachon, Dryden, Roy, Price (Vezina and others).
Not really a big gap....6 years between Giacomin and VBK, though I didn't include VBK...those were the John Davidson years, and he was a gamer, but not exactly a world beater...he did get to the Cup Finals though, so good enough.
I think you could perhaps make the argument for the Canadiens, but they also had much better teams in front of them. Other than that, though, not sure there's another team who could make the claim that they have a better pedigree of goaltender over time
And Chicago: Hall, Esposito, Belfour, Pang (haha)
Yeah, neither of those do it for me...Hall and Hasek were barely Red Wings, Osgood was like JD, Vernon like Beezer...Sawchuk was their legend. On Chicago for me it's Espo, Hall and Belfour, well short of the Rangers...
I'm not apologising for the Rangers win. Me and other oldsters will remember
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NEW YORK, May 5, 1986 -- The New York Rangers are in a very deep hole.
They thoroughly outplayed the Montreal Canadiens tonight in front of 17,374 at Madison Square Garden, and were it not for a tremendous performance by 20-year-old Montreal goalie Patrick Roy, the Rangers would be smiling.
But after Roy had turned away the last of New York's 47 shots (including 13 in overtime), the Rangers were losers, 4-3, on Claude Lemieux's score at 9:41 of the extra period that followed a somewhat controversial play."""
That one was another in the long line of Rangers seeming to never get breaks.
Trouba fined $5000 for elbow on Rodriguez
If they need me to bleed, then I'll bleed for my team