Your Favorite Goalie Save of All-Time

[Boreal01]

A tremendous effort to prevent the Bruins from getting on the board first at home with a 3-1 series lead, Bozak would open the scoring a couple minutes later and the Leafs would go on to win 2-1 and send the series back to Toronto for Game 6



Internationally it's a toss-up between Tokarski and Visentin at the WJC, Tokarski's save was more impactful while Visentin was more impressive

 

[blundluntman]

Huge save by Roy in Game 7 of the SCF to keep the game 1-0:



And of course, Nabokov's OT Save (my personal favorite of all time):

 

[frisco]

The Save:


My Best-Carey

 

[Nerowoy nora tolad]

I will never forget this save.

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Its ironic because Nabokov isnt really that significant on the leaderboard of greatest goalies, even in his era, even in his peak, but that save really is such a strong candidate for the goat save.

The part that really makes it for me is that it isnt really a case where Nabokov made an error and got caught, the setup to Richards was the kind of thing that happens in playoffs OT where you just shrug and say you cant plan for a bounce like that. Nabokovs positioning is a little aggressive to that far post and outwards on the angle, but not excessively so, he just has a ton of space to cover getting back and Richards already has it aimed and elevated high enough that it cant be a pad save, and theres no way just trying to slide back to use his chest to make the save is going to work.

Its beautiful, and it really represents everything goaltending is supposed to be about.

 

[McGarnagle]

 

[MarkusKetterer]

I still don’t know how he made that save.