chrispw1
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- Dec 5, 2015
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I am wondering has there ever been a player in hockey like Babe Ruth, Rick Ankiel or Trevor Hoffman who either in the NHL or in the minors converted from goalie to skater or vice versa.
Wow the title seems to imply that being a goalie is a bad thing and they can only be saved by conversion.
Seriously though baseball is a bad comparison to hockey mainly because players can and did play as a pitcher and as a position player virtually their entire youth baseball so there really wasn't a " conversion" per say.
Just a refocus from one position to another.
I think a few players started out as goalies when they were young. I don't think there's ever been a case of a guy starting out as a goalie then becoming a forward/defenseman.
Gerry Cheevers played a few games at forward in junior.