Nashvilles tending holy eff.
vokoun in the expansion draft
Mason has a good year so they let vokoun walk
Mason is a bust the next season but Dan Ellis puts up a 924 and takes over the starters job
Ellis bombs the next year but rinne emerges
In their 24 season history they’ve had an elite starter for 23 of them and in the one year they didn’t a 27 year old rookie on the heels of a sun 900 ahl season gives them elite numbers.
In that span these are the leafs declared #1s
Joseph (2 seasons)
Belfour (3 seasons)
Raycroft (1)
Toskalol (2)
Gustavson (1)
Giguere (1)
Gustavson (1)
Reimer (1)
Bernier (2)
Reimer/bernier (1)
Freddy (5)
Jack (1)
Murray/sammy (1)
Sammy/wall
And then think about all the shit goaltenders who got games as well and were all shit (unlike, say, the Ellis example)
Rynnas
Joey mcdonald
Drew McIntyre?????
Hutch



Kjallgren
Mrazek
Tellqvist
69 year old cujo
Scribens
Sparks
Gerber
Pogge
Now think about all the names that wouldn’t be on the list has they not made the raycroft trade.