Pre 2000 Goalie tandems

[tib2d2]

What would you say was the most successful goalie tandems pre year 2000? Its so common now but I feel it was way more rare pre 2000. You had your main starter, then your 15-20 game backup.

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[Cruor]

Vanbiesbrouck and Richter platooned for the Rangers in the early 90's and started like every other game it felt like.

 

[Michael Farkas]

Billy Smith and Chico Resch with the 70's and early 80's Islanders. I know it's a defense-first system so that has an effect on averaging stats, but these guys were independently talented. Very positionally sound, very smart goalies, didn't overplay the game like many goalies of the era.

 

[jigglysquishy]

Sawchuk/Bower on the mid 60s Leafs is the best tandem ever. Both too old and broken to play a full schedule, but both still elite enough to be a worldbeater at 50% schedule.

 

[MadLuke]

Roy/Hayward won 3 Jennings in a row together, not 50-50 in the playoff but went to a cup final.

Were quite solid, 87 to 89 Hayward played 112 games in the regular season and 19 in the playoff, Montreal 2.90 goal against by game was all alone in its own tier, no one else close.

Roy played 139 games in the regular season and 33 in the playoff, more obviously but still a good work balance.

 

[tabness]

ahh the platoon days where you could have team media posters with both goalies Stefan and Hanlon

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Vanbiesbrouck and Richter platooned for the Rangers in the early 90's and started like every other game it felt like.

This shouldn't count because it later became clear that they were cheating by putting two bodies into the same sweater.

 

[MadLuke]

One team that continued post-2000 even strict about it was the wild Roloson-Fernandez, they would continue to alternate after a bad games even in the playoff from memory.

They did pretty well, from 2002-2006
Fernandez: 10,020 minutes to 9660 for Roloson in the regular season, 552 to 579 in the playoff.

The wild had the 6th best defense in goals against during their days together.