HOH Top 60 Goaltenders of All Time (2024 Edition) - Round 2, Vote 11

[seventieslord]

This just in, team that scores a lot of goals scores a lot of goals.

 

[Professor What]

Not trying to be critical (especially since I haven't posted as much this week), but I'm not finding most of the Giacomin discussion helpful. Why are we comparing him to Hall, Sawchuk, and Parent. We have them all on the list ages ago and he's not remotely competing against them. I'm more interested in how he compares to the other guys on the list now.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Back when TV had three networks, NYers ran air time. The video i linked two posts above this atests to his reverence. It wasn't until the later part of the 80's (the Beezer!) that Ed's popularity waned. He had no statistical case to be weekend at bernie's.

Likewise, Dave Krieg and Steve Largent were HUGE in America's #1 sport, but are ignored nowadays. Counting cups and crunching stats and the multimedia age have made the 6 o'clock and 11 o'clock news superfluous.

This is an odd comparison, since a lot of Giacomin's popularity was because he was in New York, and a lot of Krieg and Largent's anonymity was because they played in Seattle.

(I was at greater than 50% of those home games between 1983 and 1988, and I agree to the point that I'd be inclined to include Steve Largent over Ed Giacomin if I had a vote this round.)