Leafs All-Time Team Vote: #1 Goalie

[Jimmy Firecracker]

With the Leafs Centennial Season coming up, I think it'd be interesting to see who Leafs fans would vote for when creating an All-Time team. After 100 years and 1000's of players, many greats have donned the blue and white and represented the city of Toronto. Who makes the cut and who doesn't when it comes to creating a team of the greatest Leafs ever?

Rules:

1. Players must have played a minimum of three seasons for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

2. Players must be voted on for their respective positions, so the polls will only feature players in their natural positions (defensemen exempt, fretting over left D vs right D is a bit much).

3. Consider what these players did in their time as Leafs. The rest of their career doesn't matter.

Current options for Leafs All-Time #1G:

Ed Belfour

Johnny Bower

Turk Broda

George Hainsworth

Curtis Joseph

Harry Lumley

Mike Palmateer

Félix Potvin

Terry Sawchuk


(If you have any player suggestions, just let me know in a post)

Current All-Time Roster:

(#1LW)-Sundin-(#1RW)
(#2LW)-(#2C)-(#2RW)
(#3LW)-(#3C)-(#3RW)
(#4LW)-(#4C)-(#4RW)

Salming-(#2D)
(#3D)-(#4D)
(#5D)-(#6D)

(#1G)
(#2G)

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[Nithoniniel]

Sawchuk was probably the best one, but only had a few seasons with the Leafs. I'd go with Bower or Broda, hard to choose between the two.

 

[Daisy Jane]

someone voted Curtis Joseph first? over Bower/Brouda/Sawchuck?

 

[Canada4Gold]

Gotta be the record holder for single season wins as a Leaf. Andrew Raycroft

Seriously how does he hold that record?

 

[67Cup]

Broda and Bower are basically a dead heat, IMO.

 

[AppsSyl]

Broda hands down for me. Then Bower. As Nith mentioned Sawchuk was only with the club a couple of years and made a difference in the 67 cup run.

 

[al secord]

Great Uncle Turk.

 

[al secord]

You kids need to do some research before picking cujo or felix the cat

 

[tp71]

Coin flip for Broda or Bower

 

[Cor]

Bower
Broda
Sawchuck

 

[MarMarSab3]

Broda then Bower the rest are irrelevant

 

[Kelly]

Cujo is my favorite Leafs goalie ever, but gotta go with Johnny B.

 

[LV*]

Playoff monster, most cups in TML history, most wins.

 

[diehardleafsfan9878]

Now to be fair to the posters who voted Belfour or CuJo, if you want to go solely on win% Belfour and CuJo are #1 and #3 respectively in win% for Leafs goalies. But seriously I will be extremely surprised to see anyone beat Broda's win total for the Leafs at 302, or play as well as Bower did for as long as he did. For me it's Broda, based solely on the fact that it will probably be atleast another 100 years before he is past in wins or cup rings.

 

[MJ65]

Bower

 

[crkkh]

Broda

 

[frizzer1]

Sawchuk played most of his career with Detroit, but in the time he was here he was almost unbeatable.......

 

[BayStreetBully]

Easiest poll. Broda, then Bower.

Alternatively, Bower, then Broda.

No one else comes close.

 

[RyanOhReally]

You can't not do Johnny Bower for this. Come on, people.

 

[Charles Chuck Finley]

Broda then Bower

 

[8816 others]

Raycroft beats them all with regular season wins

 

[pgk]

Johnny Bower by a hundred miles

 

[Lauro]

Broda was better than Bower and both disagree with Sundin being their first-line center! ;-)

 

[Le Cobra]

Terry Sawchuk is one of the GOAT. Only Tretiak and Ken Dryden are anywhere near him

 

[saltming]

This guy was the Hašek of the 70's.