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Sadly, I've got to agree with Theo, but hopefully we can get some decent threads going now with the approach of the World Champs.
Personally, Miikka Kiprusoff has won me over with his heroics for Calgary last year. The guy has amazing reflexes, is inhumanly flexible - and his glove hand is so fast that often it's hard to follow it even on the replay. He never seems to get rattled, and I've only seen him have one really bad game. He also has one of the coolest masks in the league, in my opinion. Calgary's future depends heavily on them keeping him around because he always gives the Flames a solid chance at every game.
- Honourable mention - Marty Brodeur
The best save I've ever seen (as much as I hate to admit it) was an amazing flash-grab glove save by Patrick Roy on Pavol Demitra in the quarter-final series Avs vs Blues a few years ago where Colorado steamrolled the Blues in four - it was also Roman Turek's fall from grace. Demitra took a hard snap shot at the wide-open top left corner, and everyone in the building, including the goal judge assumed there was no way it couldn't have gone in. The light was on and Demitra was actually celebrating until Roy showed everyone the puck in his glove. Demitra almost broke his stick on the boards afterward. It was a really frustrating series for the Blues offense.
Personally, Miikka Kiprusoff has won me over with his heroics for Calgary last year. The guy has amazing reflexes, is inhumanly flexible - and his glove hand is so fast that often it's hard to follow it even on the replay. He never seems to get rattled, and I've only seen him have one really bad game. He also has one of the coolest masks in the league, in my opinion. Calgary's future depends heavily on them keeping him around because he always gives the Flames a solid chance at every game.
- Honourable mention - Marty Brodeur
The best save I've ever seen (as much as I hate to admit it) was an amazing flash-grab glove save by Patrick Roy on Pavol Demitra in the quarter-final series Avs vs Blues a few years ago where Colorado steamrolled the Blues in four - it was also Roman Turek's fall from grace. Demitra took a hard snap shot at the wide-open top left corner, and everyone in the building, including the goal judge assumed there was no way it couldn't have gone in. The light was on and Demitra was actually celebrating until Roy showed everyone the puck in his glove. Demitra almost broke his stick on the boards afterward. It was a really frustrating series for the Blues offense.
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