Your Favorite Goalie Save of All-Time

[Mandar]

Since we have a favorite goal thread, I thought it would be fun to create a favorite goalie save thread. As a NYR fan, this one is kinda special to me:



One of the greatest goals scorers ever.....in a SCF game.....all the pressure on both.

Let's see some of your favorites....

 

[GMR]

Pretty much Hasek's top 10 saves.

 

[Yozhik v tumane]

I always liked the monumentality of Fleury robbing Lidstrom in the last second of the 2009 cup finals:

 

[Staniowski]

Most of the best saves are ordinary looking. Good positioning, good preparation. good anticipation. Not spectacular.

Some are spectacular - and spectacular-looking, though.

Some of each.

 

[Staniowski]

Any Ken Dryden save that was scintillating, or made in rapier-like fashion.

(these are common Danny Gallivan expressions).

 

[Bear of Bad News]

I'll put this save up against any other save:


Initial positioning was good, reaction to a perfect pass was fantastic, and you can't beat overtime in game seven.

Caveat: I'm biased.

 

[Victorias]

Pretty much Hasek's top 10 saves.

Hard to pick just one, but this with Rick Jeanneret commentary always gives me chills

 

[MadLuke]

Hasek must have a lot of people favorite non-save as well...

 

[yukoner88]

Cujo 1997 against Dallas, game 7 in overtime

 

[Crosby2010]

So many saves to choose from. I think Fleury's save in 2009 has got to be the #1 save of all-time. I mean, Game 7 of the Cup final, the dying seconds, a desperate save to win the Cup just as the horn is going. You literally can't top that. Nothing is more dramatic than that.

I'll mention one that hasn't been said yet because I think it was the start of one of the greatest 2 or 3 upsets of all-time. Bobrovsky robbing Kucherov blind. This is Game 1. If the Bolts score the game is 4-0. Instead the game stays 3-0 and Columbus comes back and wins. The Bolts never mentally recovered I don't think. And this save often gets forgotten. What's great about this is that no one at the time thought this save meant anything. I don't think anyone thought this was a turning point. I know I still assumed the Bolts would steamroll Columbus.

 

[Matsun]

Lundqvist save VS Finland in the Olympic final with 30 seconds left (1:50 in this video).

I remember watching this game with my cousin and it we just knew Finland was going to score- and then they didn't. I remember it as an incredible save so it's weird looking at this clip and the announcers barely react because the puck is still in the zone and the game is not over. Now when people talk about this game it feels like everything is about the 3-2 goal (Lidstrom from Sundin and Forsberg) but I felt this save should be remembered just as much.

 

[carjackmalone]

Pretty much palmateers top ten saves

 

[PistolPete]

Reggie Lemelin. Pat Verbeek. 1988.

 

[koyvoo]

Favourite

 

[Jim MacDonald]

I think this one might be "underrated" and "fly under the radar" because they lost the series, but in Game 5 of the 95 Western Conference Finals Eddie Belfour absolutely ROBBED Sergei Fedorov of a goal which I still remember well!

 

[Yozhik v tumane]

Lundqvist save VS Finland in the Olympic final with 30 seconds left (1:50 in this video).

I remember watching this game with my cousin and it we just knew Finland was going to score- and then they didn't. I remember it as an incredible save so it's weird looking at this clip and the announcers barely react because the puck is still in the zone and the game is not over. Now when people talk about this game it feels like everything is about the 3-2 goal (Lidstrom from Sundin and Forsberg) but I felt this save should be remembered just as much.

I agree with you that Lundqvist battling off pucks like crazy in those last minutes was the main takeaway at the time. With the eventual game winning goal it feels like a secondary notion or an interesting sidenote that exactly >>those three<< combined on it. If it had been, I dunno, Alfredsson to Zetterberg to Öhlund with that exact goal, I don’t see it being brought up as often as it is, and would be mostly forgotten much like I can’t name the other goal scorers (but I would like to say Kronwall and Påhlsson for whatever reason).

(Edit: It was Kronwall and Zetterberg scoring the other two goals. Timonen and Peltonen scored for Finland)

 

[Sergei Bure]

I think this one might be "underrated" and "fly under the radar" because they lost the series, but in Game 5 of the 95 Western Conference Finals Eddie Belfour absolutely ROBBED Sergei Fedorov of a goal which I still remember well!

 

[Felidae]

 

[The Panther]

All good ones, so far...

The two that really stand out to me are McLean in 1994 (was that late in the third?) and Cujo in 1997, because both in game 7, both highly improbable saves, and both shortly preceded the series winning goals. I mean, that Cujo save killed the '97 Stars. You could see on the bench, afterwards... Hitchcock was, like, "WTF just happened...?" Then a minute later, Marchand scores for Edmonton.

(The 2009 Fleury on Lidstrom... I've always wondered: Was Lidstrom's shot even on net?)

 

[Quatre Vingt Treize]

Any Ken Dryden save that was scintillating, or made in rapier-like fashion.

(these are common Danny Gallivan expressions).

Dryden on Pappin

 

[nabby12]

I will never forget this save.

 

[nergish]

I will never forget this save.

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Not that it means much, but I've played goal for 25 years. This is the save.

This is the kind of clip you could show a kid, and change the course of their entire life.