Were the 90's the greatest era of Goaltenders?

[tarheelhockey]

It’s not as though those guys were just ignorant. Of course they understood the butterfly position. You can watch film from the 1950s of Terry Sawchuk using a butterfly whenever the puck was in close.

Why didn’t they use it all the time? Well, you tell me how eager you’d be to drop into a butterfly 50 times a game with no support for your knees, heavy horsehair pads weighing you down, wafer thin chest and arm pads barely covering you, and a one-piece fiberglass mask lying flat against your cheeks. A full time butterfly would have been a great strategy for ending up on IR.

The tweet below comes from the account of Dave Stubbs, but was written by Glen Hall (hence the “GH”):



Note those last two sentences.

 

[BraveCanadian]

The tweet below comes from the account of Dave Stubbs, but was written by Glen Hall (hence the “GH”):



Note those last two sentences.

Cool find. I read a bunch of the q and a.

 

[VanIslander]

Any era that makes Osgood look "great" is clearly not the greatest.

 

[VanIslander]

The 1970's had Tretiak, Dryden, Giacomin, Cheevers, B. Smith, Esposito, Vachon, Parent... (eight HHOFers)

That decade was SO GOOD ...

The 80s looked bad and 90s good in comparison (having the two best in Roy & Hasek skewed things).

 

[The Panther]

Let's be honest: none of those 90s' guys could hold John Garrett's jockstrap.