Dominik Hasek
Patrick Roy
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The verdict
Dead even across the measured categories. Our all-time ranking places Dominik Hasek at #10 and Patrick Roy at #11.
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The case for Dominik Hasek
No goaltender ever stopped the puck quite like The Dominator. Unorthodox to the point of chaos, flopping, sprawling, smothering pucks with his back, his mask, anything, Dominik Hasek was mesmerizingly effective, and his .922 career save percentage remains elite decades on. He won a record six Vezina Trophies as the league's best goaltender and, astonishingly for a netminder, two Hart Trophies as overall MVP in 1997 and 1998, the only goalie to win it twice in the modern era. In 1998 he backstopped the Czech Republic to a stunning Olympic gold in Nagano, shutting out Canada in a shootout and blanking Russia in the final, a performance that made him a national hero. He won two Stanley Cups with Detroit late in his career, in 2002 and 2008. Hasek's flexibility and competitiveness let him steal games single-handedly, and at his mid-1990s peak with the Buffalo Sabres he was arguably the most valuable player in the sport regardless of position. He reinvented what elite goaltending could look like.
The case for Patrick Roy
Patrick Roy transformed goaltending both technically and psychologically. As a rookie he won the 1986 Stanley Cup and Conn Smythe with Montreal, and he would win it all four times, two with the Canadiens and two with the Colorado Avalanche, collecting a record three Conn Smythe Trophies as playoff MVP, the only player so honoured. Saint Patrick popularized the butterfly style out of the Quebec goalie tradition, dropping to seal the low net, and his intense, superstitious, supremely confident presence set the template for the modern money goaltender. He retired in 2003 as the winningest goalie in NHL history with 551 victories, since surpassed only by Martin Brodeur, and added 151 playoff wins, a mark that still stands. His 1993 run to the Cup, when he reportedly winked at an opponent during an unbeaten streak in overtime, is Montreal legend. Fiercely competitive to a fault, Roy elevated the position from last line of defence to franchise cornerstone, and generations of goalies have built their games on his blueprint.