Who is the worst backup the leafs have had in recent years?

[Mitch nylander]

Over the years, Toronto has been a place with mediocre goaltending. This thread has been inspired by Hutchinson.

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[SprDaVE]

Vesa Toskala.

 

[Trapper]

Since Hutch has been waived and We currently don’t have one, I’ll say that guy.
But it’s close.

 

[ACC1224]

I don't recall Toskala as a backup .

They all stunk but Sparks was the easiest one to dislike.

 

[DavePoulin4PM]

Vesa Toskala.

Toskala is not even close to the worst. He was also a starter.

Sparks is the worst and it’s not close.

 

[pucksakes666]

Enroth I dont even think he lasted 6 games. I remember him getting lit up by a shitty flames team before the 1st was even half way through.

 

[hoglund]

Toskala is not even close to the worst. He was also a starter.

Sparks is the worst and it’s not close.

The worst, but it's not recent is Rick St.Crroix or affectionately known as Rick St. Sieve because everything went through him. Toskola's save %age was around .900 or slightly under, St.Sieve's was around .850

 

[Whaleafs]

Most of the Leafs starters over the past decade were backups on other teams before coming to Toronto. Then went right back to being backups as soon as they left.

 

[SprDaVE]

Toskala is not even close to the worst. He was also a starter.

Sparks is the worst and it’s not close.

Just because he started a lot of games, it doesn't mean he was starting quality. He was the worst goaltender I've seen from the Leafs in that time period and ended up being the backup by the end of his tenure.

At least Sparks was able to put up a .902% save percentage, something Hutchinson and Enroth failed to do by a long long long long mile.

 

[Buds17]

Chose Enroth. Fewest appearances out of the options, and shaky numbers to boot. Considered Bibeau due to even fewer GP, but he had good numbers outside of that.

Not sure if a higher or lower GP in general is the better way to approach answering this!

 

[tp71]

Toskala is not even close to the worst. He was also a starter.

Sparks is the worst and it’s not close.

He was a backup the year Gustavsson played 42 games, he played 26 and they both sucked enough they traded for JS Giguere.

The worst backup I can remember from parts of two seasons: Don Beaupre

Acquired for Damien Rhodes he went 0-5-0 down the stretch in 1995-96 4.64 GAA and a .847 sv%

The next season he lasted all of three games going 0-3-0 with a 5.50 GAA and a .833 sv%. A nice round 0-8-0 Leafs career.

He was so bad that a 4-10-2 Glenn Healy was a marked improvement the following year.

 

[tp71]

Just because he started a lot of games, it doesn't mean he was starting quality. He was the worst goaltender I've seen from the Leafs in that time period and ended up being the backup by the end of his tenure.

At least Sparks was able to put up a .902% save percentage, something Hutchinson and Enroth failed to do by a long long long long mile.

Sparks was also able to do something Enroth couldn't do and Hutch also couldn't this year. Win a hockey game.

 

[RoyalCitySlicker]

Sparks was also able to do something Enroth couldn't do and Hutch also couldn't this year. Win a hockey game.

I think he also just set the record for longest shutout streak for the Chicago Wolves? I may be mistaken.

Not that it really has anything to do with his time with TML.

To me though, Sparks isn't the worst we've seen. Enroth was horrible. Hutch, too. Sparks? Slightly less horrible.

 

[HogTown06]

I met Toskala and he seemed like a nice guy, also he was a starter as far as I can remember.

Sparks takes the cake here, easily.

 

[TakeTheBody]

This is a crutch. The team has stunk for a long time. The back up goalie didn't matter. He's the first one thrown under the bus.

 

[ottomaddox]

Hutch/Enroth

 

[Morgs]

Enroth/Hutch were the worst, quite easily.

Sparks was the least likable because it was over a full season instead of under 10 games.

 

[Advanced stats]

Sparks was so much more effective than Hutchinson is/was.
You guys might not like him, and no one was ever in love with him, but he's hands down a better goalie than Hutchinson.

Just by the shear numbers, Sparks allowed a goal and a half less per game.

That just puts in perspective how bad hutch is.


For me this is a toss up between Enroth and Hutchinson. I'm pretty sure Enroth is literally scared of the puck.

 

[Cams]

I picked Enroth. He was on my wish list that offseason (and Matt Martin). He had had some great numbers on much worse teams leading up to the signing, but boy oh boy did he poop the proverbial bed in Toronto.

 

[sparxx87]

Sparks was so much more effective than Hutchinson is/was.
You guys might not like him, and no one was ever in love with him, but he's hands down a better goalie than Hutchinson.

Just by the shear numbers, Sparks allowed a goal and a half less per game.

That just puts in perspective how bad hutch is.


For me this is a toss up between Enroth and Hutchinson. I'm pretty sure Enroth is literally scared of the puck.

Try and tell any scout or goalie coach Sparks is better than Hutchinson. When they stop laughing, hopefully you’ve got more than a single stat that’s influenced by team play to support this.


Sparks has never been an NHL goalie and anyone who knows about this thing was saying it before, during, and after they waived Curtis McElhinney.


Sparks, by a landslide.

 

[BertCorbeau]

At least we’re talking about how poor our backup has been when for about a decade the starters position was a similar glaring issue

 

[justafan22]

Enroth. No wins

 

[hamzarocks]

Sparks was a natural swimmer not hockey player. Not sure why he chose hockey.

 

[qqaz]

Funny, 2 of the guys I considered, Sparks and Hutch, are almost the polar opposite of each other.

Hutch had such bad numbers. He was statistically terrible, and he was rightly waived. But he never looked too bad in-game, and most of his losses were because the team gave up on him.

Sparks had almost ok numbers. Especially earlier last season, he got a few wins and everything. But watching him play was laughable. He was clearly out of his league, and the team just carried him to a few W's.

Both are/were bad. I went with Sparks. Could have picked Enroth, also.

 

[tmlms13]

Sparks record after 5 games last year.

4-1-0 and had a shutout.

Imagine if the leafs record was 13-3-2. We'd be looking up the records for who was the last city to have NBA and NHL championships in back to back years.