Wally112pac said:Goaltending wins championships
Iginla Vs Khabibulin. Who won?
Yes, i know Hockey is a team sport but hopefully you can see my point.
Luongo wasn't drafted first overall. Rick DiPietro was the other goalie #1.NYRGoalieGlut said:U bring up a good point. Goalies go #1overall VERY rarely (did anyone go #1overall other than Luongo and Fleury?). I wonder why.
Thmooth Thelen said:Luongo wasn't drafted first overall. Rick DiPietro was the other goalie #1.
Tell me about it.Renegade said:Doesn't hurt to have both though, like on my fantasy team .
Take a look at the goalies who've played in the last 10 finals. Only three (Brodeur, Giguere, and Kolzig) were first rounders. Only 2 (Giguere, and Kolzig) were even the first goalie taken in their draft. None were top 10 picks.BMWM3owner said:I would take a goalie of Lehtonen's potential every time over a potential franchise foward...we see it every year in the playoffs how much of an impact a goalie can have in swaying a series one way or another...
I think the same can be said about the "franchise forwards"... 2000 Dany Heatley, 2001 Ilja Kovalchuk, 2002 Rick Nash, 2004 Alexander Ovechkin, 2005 Sidney Crosby(?)...I might be using the term "franchise" a bit loosely but IMO all of these forwards (not really sure about Crosby though..time will tell) can be considered as potential franchise forwards. If Fleury is considered as a franchise goalie then all of these forwards should be franchise "material" too.Dark Metamorphosis said:i'd take ovechkin. great franchise goalies come along every couple of years too...1997 Luongo, 2002 Lehtonen, 2003 Fleury
GodZillaAteMyZamboni said:Recent history shows that you don't get a team to the finals by taking a goalie with a top 10 pick.
Well, it's only been in recent history that teams have "gambled" on taking goalies in the top ten so you really don't have much of a statistical sample to examine.GodZillaAteMyZamboni said:Take a look at the goalies who've played in the last 10 finals. Only three (Brodeur, Giguere, and Kolzig) were first rounders. Only 2 (Giguere, and Kolzig) were even the first goalie taken in their draft. None were top 10 picks.
Recent history shows that you don't get a team to the finals by taking a goalie with a top 10 pick.
In the 25 drafts from 1970-1994, there were 8 goalies taken in the top 10 and one at 11. I'll leave out the most recent years, since those guys are still developing. That's 1 out of every 3 years. I wouldn't say that's a recent trend.Blatny Spears said:Well, it's only been in recent history that teams have "gambled" on taking goalies in the top ten so you really don't have much of a statistical sample to examine.