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R.I.P. Ken Dryden

thehabhater said:
The habs really missed him when he sat out the 73-74 season.
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Yes, the Unholy Triumverate of Bunny Larocque, Wayne Thomas, and Michel Plasse (ironically all now deceased after Thomas passed away earlier this year) couldn't provide the kind of net minding that was routine for Dryden.
 
CH1 said:
He was my first favourite player.
I met him during one of the Cup Parades and when I asked him for an autograph he reasonably declined because his arm was hemmed in by a throng of fans — only he could provide such a measured “I’m sorry”

Two decades later, he appeared on a tv show I was working on and he graciously signed a hockey card and his first book

He only played 8 seasons and won 6 Cups — which is insane
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When Habs lost 60GP a few seasons back that was more L than Dryden had in his entire 8 season career
 
wiseguy1 said:
Could you say that Dryden started the trend of big athletic goalies?
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No, Dryden was an outlier pretty much his whole career and the trend toward big, athletic goalies didn't catch on until much later.

Same with mobile, offensive minded defensemen. Doug Harvey was the first, but he was an outlier and remained a one of a kind his whole career. It was Orr who started the trend towards the type of offensive defenseman we see today. Orr begat Brad Park, Guy Lapointe, Larry Robinson, Denis Potvin, Ray Bourque et al.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
No, Dryden was an outlier pretty much his whole career and the trend toward big, athletic goalies didn't catch on until much later.

Same with mobile, offensive minded defensemen. Doug Harvey was the first, but he was an outlier and remained a one of a kind his whole career. It was Orr who started the trend towards the type of offensive defenseman we see today. Orr begat Brad Park, Guy Lapointe, Larry Robinson, Denis Potvin, Ray Bourque et al.
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There was John Davidson too at about the same time, so you can say the seed was planted
 
Krustchev said:
Nor did I. Shocking. I still remember meeting him in a deli in Cote St. Luc after a Saturday night game when I was 7 or 8. He looked gigantic at the time.
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I met him when he was President of the Leafs at a function , massive frame
 
east coast said:
The "Dryden"Cup of 1971 remains my favourite. I turned 15 in the spring of 1971-the perfect age to soak it up.

When Dryden retired, he was considered at or near the top of the heap in terms of greatest goalies of all time. That reputation has perhaps diminished somewhat as the years have passed, and as those who never saw him play look at the overall dominance of the teams that came later in the decade and assume he may have been a product of their greatness. Which is unfair. He was huge throughout the decade.

And that was just one part of his life story. Amazing individual.
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Won Conn Smythe + Cup before every losing a game in the NHL…
 
I'm surprised some here didn't hate him for saying Toronto was the centre of the hockey universe.

Top goalie and top forward from greatest club team of all time now gone
 
I would say 3rd or 4th best goalie in Habs history. Roy, Price, Dryden/Plante, Durnan, Gump.

Hasek best goalie ever.
 
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