Nothing like that, I just feel that such an honor should be held on a high level.
It is supposed to be the best of the best. If Bob wins the Cup and the Conn, most folks will have to acknowledge that he should at least be considered for it. Right now, he's a bonafide starting goaltender with some hardware. He needs abit more than that before we can really have that conversation in my mind.
I feel that he's the kind of player you want in the HHOF, but they all, netminders, whoever, should have to earn it and the bar should be higher than some of what we've seen recently.
My brother, he has 400 wins and two Vezinas. He’s one of the best to ever to do it, and he’s going to the hall of fame.
Roberto Luongo, who you don’t consider a Hall of Famer, has over 1000 GP, 489 wins, a 2.52 career GAA and a .919 career save percentage.
Every goalie who’s been admitted recently deserves to be in, and the only reason they haven’t been is because the Hall of Fame has, deliberately or not, undervalued the contributions of goaltenders.
If Marian Hossa is a Hall of Famer (and he is) so is Tom Barrasso.
So is Chris Osgood.
Dave Andreychuk, Mark Recchi, Paul Kariya, are all in.
So why isn’t Curtis Joseph?
Kevin Lowe is in. As a player.
Kevin fricking Lowe.
A 0.34 PPG defenseman who spent all but two years of his career playing with one or both of Gretzky and Messier, and who still somehow doesn’t have 100 career goals.
It’s a Hall of Guys We All Remember.
Always has been.
It’s just now, they remembered goalies matter too.