NHL Network: Top 10 Goalies of ALL TIME

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Interesting thought that is probably best placed in this topic.

Chris Osgood played what many are calling his best season last year. His partner from last season, Dominik Hasek, has now retired at the age of 43.

Osgood ended last season at the age of 35. Assuming Osgood plays until the age of 43, he will play eight more seasons. He is 188 wins behind the current all-time wins leader, Patrick Roy, who will likely lose his record sometime during the upcoming season to Martin Brodeur. 16 wins gives Brodeur sole possession; he has twelve consecutive seasons of 30+, marred only by 19 wins in the lockout-shortened 1994-95 season and 27 during his rookie campaign. Osgood is 56 shutouts behind the current all-time shutout king, Terry Sawchuk, who also is quite likely to lose his record during the coming season to Brodeur, who is a mere 7 behind and has eclipsed that number six times during his career, and has averaged a shutout for every ten starts during his career and expects to start more than 70 games this season, as he has every season since 1997.

Assuming Osgood plays those eight seasons and retires at 43 as Hasek did...he would need to average at least 24 wins per season to pass Roy's wins mark. If he plays a full 8 seasons as a starter, it should be doable. As far as shutouts to pass Sawchuk? He would have to average 7 per season there. That's not so likely.

But another way of looking at it. Osgood has won 57.5% of his games as a Red Wing. If we assume that he maintains this percentage, then he needs to play 327 games. If we assume Osgood plays less than 65 games per season, then he needs to play five more seasons if he wants to catch Roy's wins total unless he greatly increases his winning percentage and/or his workload. 188 games won over 5 seasons would be an average of about 38 wins per season.

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I wanted to puke when I saw this. I was shocked to even see Hasek on the list of top 10 goalies of all time. They put Plante at #4, Sawchuk at #3 and Hasek at #2. HaHa. WTF. Somewhere in the world someone thinks that Hasek was not only better than those legends, but also better than Johnny Bower, Glenn Hall, Martin Brodeur, Billy Smith, Bernie Parent, Esposito, etc. What a joke.

You friend, are an idiot and should fire yourself as a hockey fan.