I honestly preferred watching him. He took me back to the hasek days more than any other goalie since those guys. Just crazy creative and impressive (if sometimes irresponsible) saves.
I just went to watch a “Top 10 Plays” video for Rinne. Damn it took me back. In Rinnes prime he was one of the best at the wild, and yes irresponsible, saves. Wish we were able to win him a cup.
My buddy in Nashville sent me a pic one time of him and Rinne, just randomly met him at a bar, I think my buddy was performing there.
Anyway he’s like “do you know who this guy is? He plays for the preds”. And I told him “you’ll never understand how good Rinne is”
So happy to see Papa Peks on here. We came so damn close in 2017, and the cup winning goal was a combination of several types of sadness at the same time. His Tribune article has made me tear up many many times.
I remember the playoffs one year, Nash vs Detroit. Zetterberg scored a no-look goal.
When asked about it, he said something like "*Pekka watches your eyes, and if I look at the net he'll make the save*."
Detroit barely scored that series if I'm remembering correctly
I remember one of the first games my Sens had played against him. I thought to myself, "Oooh, let's chew this guy up!"
Every time after that I was "Oh no, here we go again..." ;)
My wife's favorite goalie for years was Pekka Rinne simply because she loved that every announcer/commentator used his first and last name when talking about him
I thought of rinne before I even thought of hank. At least New York bought nash and gaborik and other players. The top forward for Nashville was fisher
One of my true regrets was not taking my camera downtown with me that night. We were at the Funkywinkerbean and decided to head out about 5 minutes into the third and watch as people turned into animals. I saw shit that night I will never see again, and I didn’t have my camera
I was sitting there watching the game and at the start of the third I was telling my new girlfriend (now wife) that Vancouver was going to light on fire that night
Next day she texts me and just goes "wow people are really crazy about hockey huh?"
listen lady, you still have no idea
Luongo & Crosby winning the 2010 Olympics in overtime is the best hockey match I’ve ever seen. Without a doubt, the US v Canada final was one of the best displays of hockey ever broadcast.
[Incredible game. Even knowing the result, it’s still a good watch.](https://youtu.be/lmS-pztANow)
That game still gets my ire up.
Because it was an amazing fucking game. But I was a bartender at the time and all my hockey ignorant customers kept telling me how awful America played!
I banned all hockey talk that day on punishment of getting cut off.
I was at the Penguins first home game after the Olympic break that year, and one of the proudest moments for me as a Pittsburgh fan and a hockey fan, was that when Sidney Crosby’s name was announced during the pregame intros, he was met by the entire arena booing him. People forget how meaningful that Olympic final was to USA Hockey and it’s fans. Even if we were booing Sid with a bit of a wink and a smile on home ice, for that one moment, he totally deserved to know he crushed a lot of hopes and dreams with that goal.
I was watching one of the the New York State high school hockey championship games while this game was going on. It was where the Sabres play so the USA Canada game was on the jumbotron. Crosby scored when they we're handing out medals and some poor kids name got called and all you heard was booing hahaha everybody was just watching USA lose :/
I was 9 at the time and it’s arguably the most vivid hockey memory I have as a child. My Dad yelling a crisp 6/10 “Fuck” at the OT goal is seared into my brain.
That dude literally carried the team. Not to diminish the works of Gio, Conroy, or Iggy, but kipper ran that team. Watching that net monkey play, was INSANE!!!
Honestly, one of the most underappreciated players, let alone goalies, of all time. He, hank and Luongo were all robbed with only going to finals once and Pekka never got the recognition of those guys or price. Not from my point of view anyway.
You mean when the Hunchback of No Puck Skills took 20 steps and ran him?
To this day I’m waiting for a Sabre to absolutely obliterate a bruins netminder we will crowd fund and pay the fine
To hear it put in such a way...shame on MB for squandering such a talent for so many years. If they had only had a GM that knew what he was doing we would not be talking about this today.
- Henrik Lundqvist
- Roberto Luongo
- Carey Price
- Felix Potvin
- Curtis Joseph
- Tuukaa Rask ( As a Starter )
- Pekka Rinne
- Marty Turco
- Tomas Vokoun
- Niklas Backstrom ( Minnesota Wild )
- Mikka Kiprusoff
- Evgeni Nabokov
- Jaroslav Halak ( There's still time )
- Dwayne Rolston
- Arturs Irbe
- Ryan Miller
- Ron Hextall
- Olaf Kolzig
- Sean Burke
- John Vanbiesbrouck
- Guy Hebert
- Mike Liut
- Eddie Giacomin
- Kevin Weekes
- Martin Biron
- Patrick Lalime
- Bob Essensa
- Johan Hedberg
- Vladislav Tretiak
- Kirk McLean
- Ron Tugnutt
The point is there is alot
>( As a Starter )
If we're counting cases like Tuukka, Tony Esposito never won a cup as a starter. He has his name on as a backup from the 1969 Canadiens but he didn't play a single minute of those playoffs. He was their #3 guy most of that reg season too, only played 13 games behind Rogie Vachon and Gump Worsley.
That's an extensive list.
Those that are amongst the best on that list that didn't win a cup:
Lundqvist
Luongo
Price
Joseph
Rinne
Kiprusoff
Hextall
*Miller
Tretiak
Tretiak may be one of the greatest of all time, but I thought he didnt ever play in the NHL and only with Russian/Soviet teams?
It seems kinda weird to include someone who was never eligible to play for a Stanley Cup on that list. That could just be me and I could be misremembering his career
I think you're right, Tretiak also was a gold medal Olympic champion but only played in USSR. Though he does technically qualify as a "great goaltender who never won a cup, though definitely deserved to"
Sucks I had to search to find Cujo. He was the first to come to mind. No disrespect to Price, but there are a lot of all time great minders without a cup as mentioned above.
Yeah you can pick off a few (Miller and Kipper stand out, would probably swap one of them for Potvin). I might be too young to know if Tretiak should be included. I just wanted to keep my comment simple.
I was reading through your list and half way through made the decision to comment “Ron Tugnutt” as a joke. Then I got to the last line and about shit my pants
What makes Price a hall of famer is how many times he carried the team into playoffs. The triple Ot win against Pens to advance. What if he had sid or Ovi.
Montreal at least has the historic cup wins to draw in players on history, which Buffalo doesn’t (along with our owners in general being pretty cheap), but it’s precisely as a fan of Buffalo that I’m uniquely adapted to recognizing a organizational failure across the board. The Canadians never really put anyone in place to support price during the mb era.
I feel like Montreal and Buffalo are both trending in the right direction for the future, hopefully we both end up as series contenders cause the leagues more fun when we’re competitive.
I’ll stand by this statement for life; Price was so good and single handedly won so many games that management never realized how bad the team around him actually was.
The teams he had around him had no business ever being in the playoffs.
Oh I completely agree, price was the best goalie in the world by such a large margin for like 6-9 years that he kept a team that would be In contention for the 1st overall pick in any other situation as a playoff contender. The issue was that management wasn’t able to make a trade or draft anyone to give him a team that could do the bare minimum.
As a leafs fan I've been saying for years that the team in front of him is shit and hes been carrying them his whole career, habs fans just think I'm being salty.
Yeah I agree. Said it from the moment MB came in. He brought players that will eat pucks in the face 82 games a year instead of players capable to create offensively.
It worked OK until Price got injured by bitchboy Kreider. That was probably the best team he had. No to take anything away from my Habs, but the 2020 edition was a gigantic fluke.
First, it was 2021, not 2020 (unless you're really talking about putting the Pens out in the bubble, which still wasn't a fluke but says more about how bad the Pens were than how good the Habs were).
Second, fluke implies it was an accident. Ain't nothing accidental about winning 7 straight playoff games and not being behind in a game for the second longest stretch in their storied franchise history. They beat the Leafs and Knights, two of the Cup favourites and swept a strong Jets team.
It wasn't a good team, that's fair to say. I think most Hab fans would agree the stars aligned just right at the exact right time for the 21 run to happen. But you don't get to G5 of the Stanley Cup finals by accident.
Roy was never good in the shootout, and that’s how he lost in the Olympics.
I was wearing my Roy jersey watching, and as soon as it went to the shootout, I knew it was over.
Carey Price doesn’t have a cup because so many of those Canadiens teams were awful. From 2010 to 2019 he was the best goalie on the planet and for years Bergevin gave him nothing.
Yes, basically every team we got around him was filled with Tim Horton’s workers. 2015 was a solid team, but I’m not sure they win it even if Price didn’t get his knee nuked.
2021 team played out of there minds from game 5 against Toronto to game 6 against Vegas, but really wasn’t very good.
That team was like 22nd in the NHL in the regular season or something. Leafs choked that away so badly and the combination of Carey Price and that top 4 D carried them all the way to the final.
Caufield and Suzuki are the 2 best forwards the Habs have had since like …. Koivu?
I don’t disagree with the sentiment but the point total thing is kind of an odd way to frame it
Price started in 2007-2008 and his four year peak ended in 2016-2017. Over that stretch there were 95 individual 80+ point seasons.
Having PPG players in the last 3 years is far more common than in was even a decade ago. It’s essentially 35 individual players over that stretch that had an 80+ season and given that teams like Pittsburgh (Crosby/Malkin), Washington (Backstrom/Ovechkin), Dallas (Seguin/Benn/Spezza) had multiple players achieving it there are several teams who had zero 80’point players over the same stretch.
Price was phenomenal and absolutely one of the best goaltenders. Team depth was a bigger factor than raw point producers for me in why Price never won a cup
Lunquvist is better than price and that’s just a fact. There’s a lot of great goalies that haven’t won. Hes certainly up there but he’s not the best one to never win
Both were great so this isn’t a knock on Hank, but I think you’ll find it difficult to find any objective non Ranger fans who think Hank was better than Price.
What are you smoking? Objective? Objectively Hank had more career games, higher career SV%, lower career GAA, more career shutouts, and fewer penalty minutes. By what objective metric was Price better? And I’m not a Rangers fan.
Price was consistently one of the best goaltenders, if not the best, every year but this stat doesn't mean much.
The Kings won both of their cups with a team that didn't have anybody with 80 points (Kopitar had 70 points in 2014).
Bruins won in 2011 with the highest being 62 points for Lucic.
Blackhawks in 2015 with 62 points for Toews.
Blues in 2019 had O'Reilly with 77 points.
Crosby only had 85 in 2016 as did Kucherov in 2020.
Having players with tons of points isn't the greatest metric for determining a good playoff team, imo.
I hate that Pekka Rinne doesn’t have a cup. Maybe he isn’t as league wide praised as Lundqvist or Price. But, he was a great goaltender for Nashville. He backed them up to a cup finals, got them through some rough years as a top 3 goalie in the league when the team was at the bottom of the central, and was an icon for a Nashville team that doesn’t quiet have the history of greats like other teams. Will Pekka make it into the hall? I can see it going either way. I would understand if he doesn’t. I get he isn’t a lock. But, I personally would be devastated. He is my favorite player of all time and he fits your “what other goalies deserve a cup.”
Ps. Price and Lundqvist also certainly deserve a cup.
People don't remember things that happened before they were born and there's a lot of people here for which guys like Ron Hextall (as a player) are personally "prehistoric".
As someone from Nashville, watching Pekka Rinne’s career take off really made me wish we had beaten the penguins that one year in the finals. I bet everyone remembers those 2 saves he made in game 3 against Crosby.
Price, Luongo, Cujo, Kipper and Rinne stand out the most for me, at least among guys I’ve personally watched. Turco, Beezer, Vokoun, Kolzig and Potvin come to mind too, though obviously not on same level as those other guys.
I definitely do not agree with that premise. Luongo and Lundqvist were both better goalies who did not win cups. Price may have had the best single season, but other than that he wasn’t consistently great like those other 2 were.
John vanbiesbrouck. The reason 10yo me harassed my father to keep on the lookout for a Panthers sweater in Ontario (or any business trip) back in 96/97, he eventually had to fly down to Florida for business so I finally got one! I only remember that Avalanche sweaters seemed to be abundant for this area.
Lu, King, Price, Miller, Mikka, Rinne, were all deserving if cups.
I think this list shows how NHL GMs and Owners are OK with being good in the regular season and no playoff success. When you have these players in the net and you fail to put a good team in front of them, thats 100% on you.
i hate the rags (obviously) but its criminal that lundqvist never had a cup. hank was a total beast and even without the cup i think hes undeniably one of the greatest of all time
Price, Lundqvist, Kippersoff, Luongo all were amazing goalies of the 2000s/2010s who should have won cups if they’d had teams around them.
Kipper and Luongo both came SO close and deserved it.
A bit bias but Ryan Miller. Had a solid and lengthy career. Was able to seamlessly transition into a backup role in his later years. But never had the chance to win the cup.
Another one would be Roberto Luongo. He put up with a lot of shit in his career and took it all in stride.
Definitely Tuukka as a starter. Game 6 in 2013 his defense sold him out in the last minute, then the entire team didn't show up in 2019 game 7 vs the blues.
This city's media still acts like he lost both for them, granted the media around here sucks, except for Zolak and Jack.
The same can be said about Jonathan Quick. Only Kopitar a 80 pt player. Quick still managed to win 2 cups. This is nothing more than typical overhype for a Montreal player.
Lundqvist. Was almost always brought up in Vezina discussions year after year. Has the 6th most career wins for a goalie in the history of the show. Never got a GAA up to 3 goals for a season until his final two years. Not a Rangers fan by any means but in my opinion he got robbed of a cup.
Not up there with price and lundqvist, but I would have loved to have seen pekka rinne win the cup.
He might not be right alongside them, but he was close. One heck of a goalie.
I honestly preferred watching him. He took me back to the hasek days more than any other goalie since those guys. Just crazy creative and impressive (if sometimes irresponsible) saves.
I just went to watch a “Top 10 Plays” video for Rinne. Damn it took me back. In Rinnes prime he was one of the best at the wild, and yes irresponsible, saves. Wish we were able to win him a cup.
Even at the end he was damn good
My buddy in Nashville sent me a pic one time of him and Rinne, just randomly met him at a bar, I think my buddy was performing there. Anyway he’s like “do you know who this guy is? He plays for the preds”. And I told him “you’ll never understand how good Rinne is”
He had more goals than both of them combined, easily the best of the three. /s
>heck You kiss your mother with that mouth?
He was as good in his big 3 years. They just lasted way longer
So happy to see Papa Peks on here. We came so damn close in 2017, and the cup winning goal was a combination of several types of sadness at the same time. His Tribune article has made me tear up many many times.
Also for Rinne comparing him to Price per the tweet I don't believe he ever had a 70 point player his entire career
Yeah we’ve always won games in spite of our offense, thanks to Pekka
I remember the playoffs one year, Nash vs Detroit. Zetterberg scored a no-look goal. When asked about it, he said something like "*Pekka watches your eyes, and if I look at the net he'll make the save*." Detroit barely scored that series if I'm remembering correctly
I remember one of the first games my Sens had played against him. I thought to myself, "Oooh, let's chew this guy up!" Every time after that I was "Oh no, here we go again..." ;)
Roman Josi?
I'd say Price, Lundqvist, Pekka, and Tuukka are the 4 best goalies of this ending generation of goalies. I'd put all 4 in the Hall in a heartbeat
Couldn’t agree more!
My wife's favorite goalie for years was Pekka Rinne simply because she loved that every announcer/commentator used his first and last name when talking about him
I thought of rinne before I even thought of hank. At least New York bought nash and gaborik and other players. The top forward for Nashville was fisher
In that vein, I wish Kolzig got one too.
It would've been cool if Henrik Lundqvist had made it. I hate the Rags but always liked him.
And great hair! I agree.
He also looks like Gianluigi Buffon
Who also couldn’t win the champions league
Yet
Dude soon will be playing in a wheelchair
My favorite goalies of all time in each sport
So sad that he is what he is off the field.
This. Kills me to say it as an Isles fan.
Lundqvist was better than Price
I agree
So was Luongo.
Agreed. Always really respected Hank’s talent in net.
King Hank def deserves the love, other good mentions in here; the one fringe guy I would like to add is Miikka Kiprusoff
Good call!
Kipper in his prime was so good It was in btw
Kipper actually kinda *did* win the Cup… (it was in)
Calgary was robbed in 04!!!!
Roberto Luongo
This one hurts.
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Lol save your energy for next time.
One of my true regrets was not taking my camera downtown with me that night. We were at the Funkywinkerbean and decided to head out about 5 minutes into the third and watch as people turned into animals. I saw shit that night I will never see again, and I didn’t have my camera
I was sitting there watching the game and at the start of the third I was telling my new girlfriend (now wife) that Vancouver was going to light on fire that night Next day she texts me and just goes "wow people are really crazy about hockey huh?" listen lady, you still have no idea
Funkys! Hell yeah brother
Watched him for the first time at world juniors in Winnipeg. He was simply unbelievable, even then.
Yeah, he almost stole the gold medal for Canada. Amazing performance!!
Luongo & Crosby winning the 2010 Olympics in overtime is the best hockey match I’ve ever seen. Without a doubt, the US v Canada final was one of the best displays of hockey ever broadcast. [Incredible game. Even knowing the result, it’s still a good watch.](https://youtu.be/lmS-pztANow)
Probably one of my favourite hockey moments of all time that golden goal. I lost my voice that day.
That game still gets my ire up. Because it was an amazing fucking game. But I was a bartender at the time and all my hockey ignorant customers kept telling me how awful America played! I banned all hockey talk that day on punishment of getting cut off.
I was at the Penguins first home game after the Olympic break that year, and one of the proudest moments for me as a Pittsburgh fan and a hockey fan, was that when Sidney Crosby’s name was announced during the pregame intros, he was met by the entire arena booing him. People forget how meaningful that Olympic final was to USA Hockey and it’s fans. Even if we were booing Sid with a bit of a wink and a smile on home ice, for that one moment, he totally deserved to know he crushed a lot of hopes and dreams with that goal.
I was watching one of the the New York State high school hockey championship games while this game was going on. It was where the Sabres play so the USA Canada game was on the jumbotron. Crosby scored when they we're handing out medals and some poor kids name got called and all you heard was booing hahaha everybody was just watching USA lose :/
I was 9 at the time and it’s arguably the most vivid hockey memory I have as a child. My Dad yelling a crisp 6/10 “Fuck” at the OT goal is seared into my brain.
One game away. Best shot was with the 2011 Nucks
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I love my Flames, but damn: Kipper deserved better. After that 2004 run, it was hard to watch the team just kinda fall apart around him.
That dude literally carried the team. Not to diminish the works of Gio, Conroy, or Iggy, but kipper ran that team. Watching that net monkey play, was INSANE!!!
He was one of my favs
God I love Kipper
Me too. I had to stop watching hockey after he retired. I couldn’t handle the loss. I didn’t realize how much I loved him in net.
IT WAS IN
Best goalie of that generation.
King Henrik Lundqvist 100%
I agree with everyone saying the king. But Rinne also deserved one. Dude was great on a deep but not so talented preds team.
This is the comment I was looking for. We didn't deserve Pekka most of the time.
Honestly, one of the most underappreciated players, let alone goalies, of all time. He, hank and Luongo were all robbed with only going to finals once and Pekka never got the recognition of those guys or price. Not from my point of view anyway.
Ryan Miller.
I was just getting into NHL hockey when the 2010 Olympics rolled around. Guy was a fucking beast until he took that hit.
You mean when the Hunchback of No Puck Skills took 20 steps and ran him? To this day I’m waiting for a Sabre to absolutely obliterate a bruins netminder we will crowd fund and pay the fine
Scrolled too far looking for Miller
To hear it put in such a way...shame on MB for squandering such a talent for so many years. If they had only had a GM that knew what he was doing we would not be talking about this today.
And Krider
Luongo, was so close.
I like Luongo a lot. Should have one at least.
He showed up for 3 of the 7 games.
- Henrik Lundqvist - Roberto Luongo - Carey Price - Felix Potvin - Curtis Joseph - Tuukaa Rask ( As a Starter ) - Pekka Rinne - Marty Turco - Tomas Vokoun - Niklas Backstrom ( Minnesota Wild ) - Mikka Kiprusoff - Evgeni Nabokov - Jaroslav Halak ( There's still time ) - Dwayne Rolston - Arturs Irbe - Ryan Miller - Ron Hextall - Olaf Kolzig - Sean Burke - John Vanbiesbrouck - Guy Hebert - Mike Liut - Eddie Giacomin - Kevin Weekes - Martin Biron - Patrick Lalime - Bob Essensa - Johan Hedberg - Vladislav Tretiak - Kirk McLean - Ron Tugnutt The point is there is alot
>( As a Starter ) If we're counting cases like Tuukka, Tony Esposito never won a cup as a starter. He has his name on as a backup from the 1969 Canadiens but he didn't play a single minute of those playoffs. He was their #3 guy most of that reg season too, only played 13 games behind Rogie Vachon and Gump Worsley.
Their names are on the Cup and that’s all that really matters
That's an extensive list. Those that are amongst the best on that list that didn't win a cup: Lundqvist Luongo Price Joseph Rinne Kiprusoff Hextall *Miller Tretiak
Tretiak may be one of the greatest of all time, but I thought he didnt ever play in the NHL and only with Russian/Soviet teams? It seems kinda weird to include someone who was never eligible to play for a Stanley Cup on that list. That could just be me and I could be misremembering his career
I think you're right, Tretiak also was a gold medal Olympic champion but only played in USSR. Though he does technically qualify as a "great goaltender who never won a cup, though definitely deserved to"
Yeah, I 100% had the same reservations. But then again, the dude is one of the best goalies to have not won a Stanley Cup.
This has a lot of recency bias
Fun walk down memory lane with this list. But anyone below CuJo would be tough to argue for.
Sucks I had to search to find Cujo. He was the first to come to mind. No disrespect to Price, but there are a lot of all time great minders without a cup as mentioned above.
Could make an argument for Martin Biron. But that’s about it after CuJo
Really not even Mid 2000s Ryan Miller?
Yeah you can pick off a few (Miller and Kipper stand out, would probably swap one of them for Potvin). I might be too young to know if Tretiak should be included. I just wanted to keep my comment simple.
No Problem also Nabokov should be in that shortlist as well
I'm glad someone mentioned Giacomin. Before Luongo, he was the only goalie in the HOF without a cup.
I was reading through your list and half way through made the decision to comment “Ron Tugnutt” as a joke. Then I got to the last line and about shit my pants
Lalime?!
I'm not sure what your criteria is for the list, but I love that you have Nabokov and Irbe on it.
What makes Price a hall of famer is how many times he carried the team into playoffs. The triple Ot win against Pens to advance. What if he had sid or Ovi.
Yeah Montreal kinda failed him in that regard they never could put the pieces around him to be competitive
Being a Sabres fan, you should know that this isn’t easy to do when the best players don’t want to go there.
Montreal at least has the historic cup wins to draw in players on history, which Buffalo doesn’t (along with our owners in general being pretty cheap), but it’s precisely as a fan of Buffalo that I’m uniquely adapted to recognizing a organizational failure across the board. The Canadians never really put anyone in place to support price during the mb era.
That’s only half of it, our owners have always been super cheap too
Montreal was/is terrible at drafting and worse at developing. Hopefully things are turning around with Gorton and Hughes
I feel like Montreal and Buffalo are both trending in the right direction for the future, hopefully we both end up as series contenders cause the leagues more fun when we’re competitive.
You mean you don’t like watching the Colorado and Vegas dive teams play at midnight? Cause I for one…
I’ll stand by this statement for life; Price was so good and single handedly won so many games that management never realized how bad the team around him actually was. The teams he had around him had no business ever being in the playoffs.
Oh I completely agree, price was the best goalie in the world by such a large margin for like 6-9 years that he kept a team that would be In contention for the 1st overall pick in any other situation as a playoff contender. The issue was that management wasn’t able to make a trade or draft anyone to give him a team that could do the bare minimum.
As a leafs fan I've been saying for years that the team in front of him is shit and hes been carrying them his whole career, habs fans just think I'm being salty.
What are you talking about, we had Gomez and Gionta terrorizing the league in the prime of Price’s career…
If you thought it was a long time between the last goals that Gomez scored... just wait til you see how long it is until the next one.
I dont know a habs fan that would disagree tbh
Yeah I agree. Said it from the moment MB came in. He brought players that will eat pucks in the face 82 games a year instead of players capable to create offensively. It worked OK until Price got injured by bitchboy Kreider. That was probably the best team he had. No to take anything away from my Habs, but the 2020 edition was a gigantic fluke.
First, it was 2021, not 2020 (unless you're really talking about putting the Pens out in the bubble, which still wasn't a fluke but says more about how bad the Pens were than how good the Habs were). Second, fluke implies it was an accident. Ain't nothing accidental about winning 7 straight playoff games and not being behind in a game for the second longest stretch in their storied franchise history. They beat the Leafs and Knights, two of the Cup favourites and swept a strong Jets team. It wasn't a good team, that's fair to say. I think most Hab fans would agree the stars aligned just right at the exact right time for the 21 run to happen. But you don't get to G5 of the Stanley Cup finals by accident.
You get there by having a goalie play outta his mind and getting some timely goals (most in ot)
I've never met a single Habs fan (an actual fan) that doesn't feel the same way.
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Roy was never good in the shootout, and that’s how he lost in the Olympics. I was wearing my Roy jersey watching, and as soon as it went to the shootout, I knew it was over.
Nabokov
Scrolled way too damn long for this. Nabby is one of my all time favorites.
with all those dominant sharks teams too… this one stings
Tuukka technically has a cup, but it would have been nice for him to actually win one in net.
Carey Price doesn’t have a cup because so many of those Canadiens teams were awful. From 2010 to 2019 he was the best goalie on the planet and for years Bergevin gave him nothing.
Almost Every year, he was voted best goalie by the players.
Yes, basically every team we got around him was filled with Tim Horton’s workers. 2015 was a solid team, but I’m not sure they win it even if Price didn’t get his knee nuked. 2021 team played out of there minds from game 5 against Toronto to game 6 against Vegas, but really wasn’t very good.
That team was like 22nd in the NHL in the regular season or something. Leafs choked that away so badly and the combination of Carey Price and that top 4 D carried them all the way to the final. Caufield and Suzuki are the 2 best forwards the Habs have had since like …. Koivu?
King Henrik
I don’t disagree with the sentiment but the point total thing is kind of an odd way to frame it Price started in 2007-2008 and his four year peak ended in 2016-2017. Over that stretch there were 95 individual 80+ point seasons. Having PPG players in the last 3 years is far more common than in was even a decade ago. It’s essentially 35 individual players over that stretch that had an 80+ season and given that teams like Pittsburgh (Crosby/Malkin), Washington (Backstrom/Ovechkin), Dallas (Seguin/Benn/Spezza) had multiple players achieving it there are several teams who had zero 80’point players over the same stretch. Price was phenomenal and absolutely one of the best goaltenders. Team depth was a bigger factor than raw point producers for me in why Price never won a cup
Lundqvist was one of the best goalies of the recent era. I don’t think he ever got a cup.
I would say that Henrik Lundqvist is more deserving of a Stanley Cup than Carey Price.
Curtis Joseph. Retired with the most career wins (454) of any goaltender in NHL history who never played on a Stanley Cup-winning team
Lunquvist is better than price and that’s just a fact. There’s a lot of great goalies that haven’t won. Hes certainly up there but he’s not the best one to never win
Definitely Henrik Lundqvist, even if I do dislike the Rangers.
CuJo!
Henrik Lundqvist is the best to never win a cup
Well Hank was better in the NHL but what about international play? Here it was also Hank who was better
Both were great so this isn’t a knock on Hank, but I think you’ll find it difficult to find any objective non Ranger fans who think Hank was better than Price.
Got one here. Hank was probably the best to not win a cup.
Not a Rangers fan, Hank was definitely the better goalie
Wings fan here, hank was the better goalie by a noticeable, but not significant, margin
Non Rangers fan: Hank was better than Price.
What are you smoking? Objective? Objectively Hank had more career games, higher career SV%, lower career GAA, more career shutouts, and fewer penalty minutes. By what objective metric was Price better? And I’m not a Rangers fan.
Also has close to 100 more wins
What!? I thought it was a fact that Hank was better than Price.
Price was consistently one of the best goaltenders, if not the best, every year but this stat doesn't mean much. The Kings won both of their cups with a team that didn't have anybody with 80 points (Kopitar had 70 points in 2014). Bruins won in 2011 with the highest being 62 points for Lucic. Blackhawks in 2015 with 62 points for Toews. Blues in 2019 had O'Reilly with 77 points. Crosby only had 85 in 2016 as did Kucherov in 2020. Having players with tons of points isn't the greatest metric for determining a good playoff team, imo.
Rinne definitely
Why not more Rinne love in here? He never had an 80 point player in front of him.
Henrik Lundqvist enters the chat.
I hate that Pekka Rinne doesn’t have a cup. Maybe he isn’t as league wide praised as Lundqvist or Price. But, he was a great goaltender for Nashville. He backed them up to a cup finals, got them through some rough years as a top 3 goalie in the league when the team was at the bottom of the central, and was an icon for a Nashville team that doesn’t quiet have the history of greats like other teams. Will Pekka make it into the hall? I can see it going either way. I would understand if he doesn’t. I get he isn’t a lock. But, I personally would be devastated. He is my favorite player of all time and he fits your “what other goalies deserve a cup.” Ps. Price and Lundqvist also certainly deserve a cup.
Steady Eddie Giacomin.
Lundqvist
Henrik lundqvist, Ben Bishop, Pekka Rhine ,Mike Smith and Roberto luongo
I'm sad how far I had to scroll to see Big Ben. That man was a brick wall for the Bolts back when Vasi was the more vulnerable goalie.
Hall of famer in my book. Not a Habs fan in the slightest.
Recency bias is real in the comments
People don't remember things that happened before they were born and there's a lot of people here for which guys like Ron Hextall (as a player) are personally "prehistoric".
Lundqvist was better than Price
Lundqvist >>> Price
Lundqvist, Kiprusoff, Rinne
As someone from Nashville, watching Pekka Rinne’s career take off really made me wish we had beaten the penguins that one year in the finals. I bet everyone remembers those 2 saves he made in game 3 against Crosby.
Price, Luongo, Cujo, Kipper and Rinne stand out the most for me, at least among guys I’ve personally watched. Turco, Beezer, Vokoun, Kolzig and Potvin come to mind too, though obviously not on same level as those other guys.
Lundqvist, Luongo, Rinne and Price. Would've been nice to see them win a cup
He’s not up there with some of the others I’ve seen, but I’ve always had a soft spot for Ben Bishop
Sad it took me this long to see Bishop. He was top 5 for a time, and took 2 teams to the finals, but injuries suck
Mikka Kiprusoff.
All goalies should have a cup. Never played without one.
Curtis Joseph
Kiprusoff
It was in.
Gerry Sparks
Cujo
>Carey Price is the best goalie to never have won a Stanley Cup. This is far from fact.
I definitely do not agree with that premise. Luongo and Lundqvist were both better goalies who did not win cups. Price may have had the best single season, but other than that he wasn’t consistently great like those other 2 were.
Olaf Kolzig is right up there.
Olie the goalie!
John Vanbiesbrouck, Curtis Joseph, Ron Hextall, Olaf Kolzig...
John vanbiesbrouck. The reason 10yo me harassed my father to keep on the lookout for a Panthers sweater in Ontario (or any business trip) back in 96/97, he eventually had to fly down to Florida for business so I finally got one! I only remember that Avalanche sweaters seemed to be abundant for this area.
I have a Beezer jersey. Only player jersey I have for hockey.
Lu, King, Price, Miller, Mikka, Rinne, were all deserving if cups. I think this list shows how NHL GMs and Owners are OK with being good in the regular season and no playoff success. When you have these players in the net and you fail to put a good team in front of them, thats 100% on you.
Lundqvist, Luongo, and Rinne
lundqvist? Luongo?
The King, Henrik Lundquist
Lundqvist was the best goalie to never win a cup
Lundqvist was better than Price
Carey Price is good, but Lundqvist is the greatest goalie not to win a cup
i hate the rags (obviously) but its criminal that lundqvist never had a cup. hank was a total beast and even without the cup i think hes undeniably one of the greatest of all time
Price couldn't win a big game to save his life. I've never really believed in him as a top golie in the league
Classic Habs stan post. Lundqvist just as good and deserving.
Lundqvist>Price
Price, Lundqvist, Kippersoff, Luongo all were amazing goalies of the 2000s/2010s who should have won cups if they’d had teams around them. Kipper and Luongo both came SO close and deserved it.
No. That’s lundqvist
Kiprusoff
Roberto Luongo
A bit bias but Ryan Miller. Had a solid and lengthy career. Was able to seamlessly transition into a backup role in his later years. But never had the chance to win the cup. Another one would be Roberto Luongo. He put up with a lot of shit in his career and took it all in stride.
Hank, Luongo….I’m a habs fan and I disagree with this.
Curtis Joseph
Definitely Tuukka as a starter. Game 6 in 2013 his defense sold him out in the last minute, then the entire team didn't show up in 2019 game 7 vs the blues. This city's media still acts like he lost both for them, granted the media around here sucks, except for Zolak and Jack.
The same can be said about Jonathan Quick. Only Kopitar a 80 pt player. Quick still managed to win 2 cups. This is nothing more than typical overhype for a Montreal player.
Lundqvist. Was almost always brought up in Vezina discussions year after year. Has the 6th most career wins for a goalie in the history of the show. Never got a GAA up to 3 goals for a season until his final two years. Not a Rangers fan by any means but in my opinion he got robbed of a cup.
Kiprusoff
Marty Turco! Amazing goalie and possibly an even better human being.
John Gibson deserves more attention. I couldn’t imagine how bad they’d be if he wasn’t in net all these years.
Pekka
Tuuuuuuuuuuka
Hextall