Roy Retires

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Apocalypse

But he sucks at golf.

The sport he sucks at is baseball.

[notyoueither]

What about the cripples? Won't someone think of the cripples?

[Apocalypse]

Just the other day he shot in the 11Xs. That's horrible. I've never played golf and could probably beat that.

[Ming]

Everybody has their bad days.... but yeah, I can beat that

[cinch]

Slightly off-topic, but still tangentally goaltender-related:

Did anyone see the highlight reel save by Holmqvist on Salmelainen in game 1 of the Calder Cup finals? That's probably the best save I've seen all season, NHL included.

[Buck Birdseed]

Oh no! How will Siegfried manage?

[Tingkai]

Ya he turned during the chance to represent his country at the Olympics, but let's not forget what he has done.
From the Globe:

Apart from the statistical evidence of his greatness, Roy was also something of a trail blazer. He adapted the butterfly style of play and refined it to the point where now, the majority of goalies in the league play the game that way, dropping easily to their knees to cover as much of the net as physically possible.

Among the goaltending fraternity, Roy's influence and innovativeness was second only to that of Jacques Plante, who invented the goalie mask.

Roy won four Stanley Cup championships - two each with Montreal and Colorado - and is the only three-time winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy, awarded to the playoff MVP. He retired as the NHL's career leader in victories with 551, 104 more than runner-up Terry Sawchuk, and games played with 1,029.

In the playoffs, Roy is the NHL leader for most games played (247), minutes played (15,209), shutouts (23), consecutive wins in the post season (11 in 1993), and has the most 10-plus win playoff campaigns (9). Roy claims the NHLís second longest scoreless streak in the Stanley Cup Finals (227:41, the longest since 1926), and became the first goaltender since 1965 to record two shutouts in the Finals (2001). His .616 winning percentage is good for third all-time.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, but he's still a ***** .

We may say Ty Cobb was an awesome baseball player... but that doesn't change how much of an ******* he was.

[Sten Sture]

While I will miss seeing him play, the thing I will really miss is my wife's keen ability to spot him on the TV screen while passing through the room and say 'Patrick... Wwaaaaaaaah!'

She rocks.

[yavoon]

If you use a mathematical approximation no one is good at golf. Golf also has the problem of rampant cheating held in the guise of an astonishing amount of rationalizations.

[optimus2861]

Unquestionably one of the top 3 goalies ever to play the game, with Plante & Sawchuck being my other two picks (honestly not sure how I'd rate them in relation to each other, especially since I never saw the latter two play ).

I hope the Montreal Canadiens will at last fully bury the hatchet with him and raise his #33 to the rafters where it belongs; I'd love to see him don the CH one last time and be appropriately honoured for what he accomplished during his time with the club. (And for that matter, get Larry Robinson's #19 up there too!)