Here's a question.
Does anyone here have either Tretiak or Dryden top 6? In my opinion - there seems to be a pretty clear top 6.
It might make sense to add the top 6 to the final list after the first vote, especially if we're going an extra week, assuming the voting comes out with a clear gap for the 6.
If anyone does think Dryden or Tretiak should break up the top 6 - I'd love to hear the argument, and I'd love to hear how high you'd slot them, and who goes down to 7th and/or 8th.
I guess I don't mind saying this - a majority of our lists did
not have the canonical top six of the three 90s guys plus the three O6 guys as their top six. Mostly, one of them was left outside of the top six, sometimes two. So I'd like to hear more from those people.
I am a part of that group. I like Tretiak a bit more than Glenn Hall. From the film I watched, I preferred Hall the least versus Plante and Sawchuk, as I felt he was a bit less 'in control' than the other two, but that may just be personal preference on how I like my goalies to play. I think Hall's all-star and awards records are overly-generous from both his enormous games played numbers as well as the fact that he played behind worse defensive teams than Plante/Sawchuk did, and award voters historically tend to prefer goalies who had less help. Also, I like guys who were trend-setters, so Hall gets points on that, but so does Tretiak, through his coaching career and how many guys looked to him and his game as being influential.
Plus, and this may be a stupid way to look at it, but... from watching games, I really think Tretiak is a lot better than the next non-NHL European goalie, both before and after his time. Like, a lot better. So then, the question for me is, how did he become so much better than the others without having elite guys to look at and train under? If he had been dealt the hand Hall had been, developing in Detroit 'under' Terry Sawchuk, then only given the starter reins as a seasoned 24 year old rather than as a green 19 year old... would Tretiak have been even better?
But it's really splitting hairs. I had them one spot apart on my list.