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.

 

[The Panther]

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

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This is pretty much the same size as Dead-Puck Era goalies...

 

[The Panther]

Fuhr and Moog is an obvious one. From 1982-83 through 1986-87:
Regular season:
Moog
137-45-21
Fuhr
120-51-29
(Moog was 1st in wins and Fuhr 3rd.)
Playoffs:
Moog
18-5
Fuhr
45-16
(Fuhr was 1st in wins and Moog 4th.)

 

[MadLuke]

what about that Cheever-Johnson bruins pair, they seem to have played about the exact same amount when the won the cup, won 6 game each. They were alternating game to game quite a bit in the playoff.

That something you do not see often now a day.

 

[Voight]

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

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IS that Newmans jersey?

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

Fuhr and Moog is an obvious one. From 1982-83 through 1986-87:
Regular season:
Moog
137-45-21
Fuhr
120-51-29
(Moog was 1st in wins and Fuhr 3rd.)
Playoffs:
Moog
18-5
Fuhr
45-16
(Fuhr was 1st in wins and Moog 4th.)

I'd even go a a step further and say any combo of the Fuhr-Moog-Ranford trio

 

[Bear of Bad News]

I'd even go a a step further and say any combo of the Fuhr-Moog-Ranford trio

Not any combo, since Moog and Ranford never rostered together.

 

[SealsFan]

Ed Giacomin and Gilles Villemure had a 5-year run for the Rangers beginning with 1970-71... Dan Bouchard and Phil Myre split the netminding for the first 5 years of the Atlanta Flames existence. It's unheard of for an expansion team to use only two goalies for it's first 5 seasons!

 

[buffalowing88]

Bob Sauve and Don Edwards share the 1980 Vezina as a duo. That's pretty cool in retrospect.

 

[MadLuke]

Bob Sauve and Don Edwards share the 1980 Vezina as a duo. That's pretty cool in retrospect.

25 games cut-off, was not uncommon, 65-66-67-68-69-71-72-74-77-78-79-80-81 had the winning team second goaltender play enough game to share it.

 

[buffalowing88]

25 games cut-off, was not uncommon, 65-66-67-68-69-71-72-74-77-78-79-80-81 had the winning team second goaltender play enough game to share it.

Interesting, I didn't realize that!

 

[MadLuke]

Interesting, I didn't realize that!

Until 1982 the award was not voted, the team that allowed the less goals was the winner, the goaltender of that team got his name on it in some ways.

Back in the days, usually a goaltender played all the games for is team pretty much, but Bower-Sawchuck shared the net in 1965 so they decided to give them to both and put a rule that if you played 25 games or more on the Vezina winning team you were a co-winner.

In 1981 there was 3 winners for MTL (25-36 and 33 game played), I wonder if that influenced the decision to make it a voted award instead.