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Weight:
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195 |
Shoots:
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Position:
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G |
HHOF:
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1971 | ||||||
Sawchuk is generally regarded as the best goaltender of all time. Although, as of the end of the 2000-01 season, Patrick Roy had surpassed Sawchuk in career wins, Sawchuk still holds the record for the most shutouts with 103, a mark that will most likely not be surpassed any time soon. The closest goalie to him now is Ed Belfour, with 57 shutouts. Coincidentally, Sawchuk had 57 shutouts after only 5 seasons of play. Sawchuk was called up by the Detroit Red Wings as a replacement for the injured Harry Lumley in the 1949-50 season. That same season he won the Calder Trophy as the most valuable rookie, adding that to his rookie awards in the USHL and the AHL. The following season he played all 70 regular season games, leading the league in games played, wins, and shutouts. He repeated the same feat the next year but also led the league in Goals Against Average with 1.90. In the 1952 Stanley Cup Championships, Sawchuk led the Red Wings to the Cup with the minimum 8 victories, with 4 shutouts and only 5 Goals Against. Terry then went on to lead the league in wins for the next 3 seasons. Before finishing his first 5 full seasons he had 3 Stanley Cup Championships, 3 Vezina Trophies, 1 Calder Cup, was named to 3 First All Star Teams and 2 Second All Star Teams and had played in 5 All Star Games. Terry had an unorthodox style, crouching in the crease like a gorilla with his arms sweeping across the ice and his head hung low. This allowed him to protect his crease during scrambles and screened shots. Today, that style is known as the “Butterfly”. Despite his success, the Red Wings traded Sawchuk to the Bruins at the end of the 1955 season. During his second season with the Bruins, Terry succumbed mononucleosis, and then later to a stress related illness and took half of the season off to recover. The following season he was traded back to Detroit, but his level of play was not the same as it was when he was with Detroit earlier in his career. After 7 more years with the Red Wings Sawchuk was claimed by Toronto in the Intra-League Draft in 1964. While with Toronto Punch Imlach platooned Bower and Sawchuk and the two won the Vezina Trophy in 1965 and in 1967 they led Toronto to the Stanley Cup Championship. Sawchuk was claimed by Los Angeles in the Expansion Draft but he saw only limited action, and the following season he was traded to Detroit for Jimmy Peters and then the following season to New York Rangers for Larry Jeffery. In the liner notes of “Shutout, The Terry Sawchuk Story,” Gordie Howe commented, “Terry Sawchuk was the best goalie I ever saw. Everything that a goalie should be.” Terry never had it easy, but he never let that get in his way of being great. Sadly, and tragically, Terry died in 1970 a couple of weeks after a dispute with his house and team mate Ron Stewart. Sawchuk was recognized for his greatness by being inducted immediately into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1971. |
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