WJC: Best/Worst Goalies for Team Canada in WJC history

[Epsilon]

Legace in 1993 was the best.

Roy this year is looking like a solid candidate for the worst.

 

[Garyboy]

Haven't been watching this tournament very long, have you?

Seriously, eh. Should change the title to best goalies for Team Canada from the past 5 years.

Best for me - Jimmy Waite, Manny Legace, Stephan Fiset

Worst - David Lenevu. Poor guy was blasted out by the Finns and promptly replaced with an under the weather Marc Andre Fleury.

 

[connellc]

I've been watching the tournament for 10 years but I have seen tape of some great performances.

Great

Jiimy Waite
Marc Denis
Manny Legacy
Carey Price
Justin Pogge
Stephan Fiset
Fleury in Halifax
Luongo in Winnipeg

Worst

Roy this year
Jake Allen
Tokarski was very, very overated and IMO played like garbage.
Pascal Leclair really flubbed in the Gold medal game against Russia

 

[dm1371]

It looks like Roy is writing his name on the worst ones... I hated Allen too last year. Best were Price and Pogge IMO. Tokarski has been average.

 

[Uncle Rotter]

In 1999 - yes.

In 1998 - He and Mathieu Garon combined to maybe give the worst tandem performance for Canada ever.

The problem with that team was scoring, not goal. They struggled & strained to get 2 against an awful German team.

The lone bright spot for Canada was goaltender Mathieu Garon, who tied a tournament record with two shutouts.
http://www.tsn.ca/World_jrs/feature/?fid=3904

 

[dmacgreg37]

The problem with that team was scoring, not goal. They struggled & strained to get 2 against an awful German team.

The lone bright spot for Canada was goaltender Mathieu Garon, who tied a tournament record with two shutouts.
http://www.tsn.ca/World_jrs/feature/?fid=3904

That quote is totally related to the 2 shutouts. Anyone who gave up 4 goals on 9 shots in 34 minutes against Kazakhstan is hardly a bright spot.

 

[Uncle Rotter]

That quote is totally related to the 2 shutouts. Anyone who gave up 4 goals on 9 shots in 34 minutes against Kazakhstan is hardly a bright spot.

He played well in the games that mattered more than the one for 7th place

 

[dmacgreg37]

He played well in the games that mattered more than the one for 7th place

I guess. I count on Canadian goalies making the big save and getting the team through. Going 2-2 before that game tells me he didn't do that. I watched the games (other than the US/Kazakh games that weren't aired) and he was not good. Difference of opinion I guess.

 

[29dryden29]

Marc Denis(1997) or Manny Legace(1993) for me.

Both had outstanding tournaments, the best Canadian goaltending I've ever seen in the WJHC.

Edit: Reading the other answers make me quite old. Looks like some people are either very young or just started watching hockey in the last 4-5 years.

I remember Trevor Kidd was pretty outstanding in his tourney and there have been others many years the difference maker in this tournament for Canada has been our goaltending Luondo played well in one of his 2 appearances.

 

[Lessy]

I've been watching this tourney since the mid 90's so missed out on the Waite's and Legace's. Here's my list though:

Best: Luongo, Denis, Pogge, Fleury v1.0
Worst: Allen, Leclaire, Fleury v2.0

 

[OttawaRoughRiderFan*]

Tokarski was nothing special. Mind you, much better than Roy. A lot of people seem to remember his save, and that's it. Pogge was awesome though.

Agree.

 

[OttawaRoughRiderFan*]

Pogge has the best stats I can find.

Went 6 Games... 1.00 GAA, 3 Shutouts, 0.952 save%

Sadly, he was never that good again.

 

[LeafsFan2342]

Roy was the worst so far

 

[Bjorn Le]

Yes they did. 6-3 in a 7/8th place game.


http://www.tsn.ca/World_jrs/feature/?fid=3904


FTR - Bounced back the next year to get to the Gold Medal game, beating Kazakhstan 12-1 in the QF. Just an abberation year, after losing the QF to the Russians after hitting a goalpost, they lost a placement game to the US, and then to the Kazakhs in the 7-8 game.

Oh wow, I checked for like 5 min on a thing with the information on the tournement and I couldn't find it.

 

[SensFan26]

IIRC didn't Jeff Glass play great during his year albeit on a great team?

 

[RoyIsALegend]

IIRC didn't Jeff Glass play great during his year albeit on a great team?

5-0-0 with a 1.40 GAA (1 shutout) on the stacked team with Crosby, Getzlaf, Bergeron, Carter, Perry, Richards, Ladd, etc. up front and Weber, Phaneuf, Seabrook, Barker, Coburn, Syvret on D. Absolutely ridiculous team.

 

[Wham City]

No love for the "Storrkeeper"?

Back to back golds, and was named best goaltender in the 94 tournament while going undefeated in his WJC career.

 

[stempniaksen]

Best: Stephane Fiset and Carey Price
Worst: MAF (Yes I'm still bitter about the golden mistake, lol)

 

[RaySheppard]

Legace..by a mile.

 

[DoYouBeleaf]

Best:
Price
Pogge

Worst:
Allen
Jones
Roy
Note: Almost all of the bad goalies team Canada has had are from the Q and some of the good ones are from the W.

 

[Dougie Seguin]

Was at the 2006 WJHC and Pogge was very good indeed.

and then what happened to him? lol

 

[13 others]

Tokarski one of the best.. wtf did even watch that year? Seriously, no way.

 

[MXD]

Best:
Price
Pogge

Worst:
Allen
Jones
Roy
Note: Almost all of the bad goalies team Canada has had are from the Q and some of the good ones are from the W.

That's an impressive sample size.
The best canadian goalie at the WJC is Jimmy Waite.

 

[LeafsFan18]

Best:

Price
Pogge
Legace

Good:

Mason
Luongo

Bad:

Tokarski
Leclaire

Worst:

Roy
Allen

Unlucky:
Fleury

 

[Nabokov20]

I'm young, so...

Best - Pogge

Worst - Roy