Best Ice Hockey Goalies of All Time

Unlike any goaltender before or after him, Hasek never had or ever needed a playing style. The czech team in 98 didn't even bother coming close to winning gold, but he was the best PLAYER in the world in the late 90's, when he almost wrote a very similar story in the 99 playoffs with Buffalo. This was crashed only because of a controversial call. 2 HART trophies, SIX VEZINAS, more than both roy & brodeur, and only planet won more vezinas, but only because they had 6 teams when Hasek won his 6 vezinas with a lot more competition and has the best career save percentage by a retired goaltender in modern era, while still playing for teams that were no were near playoff ready, until detroit in 2002 when he won it all

Greatest Goalie of all time. No one could stop the puck like Hasek. Just watch old video of the top players on this list and then decide.

Sheer talent put the Dominator at the top of the list, no single player has had larger impact on a team in the NHL. He may not have won as many Cups, but his TWO Heart Trophies say all you need to know.

When he started playing for NHL everyone was surprised by his lack of style, he actually had no style at all! But then they realised that he was the best of all! Ill never forget Nagano 98... Hero!

Brodeur is the greatest goaltender of all time. Critics say the trap helped him but they conveniently or ignorantly neglect the fact that he was one of the main key components of the trap being as successful as it was. The canadiens played the neutral zone trap as well when Roy played there. The difference was Brodeur's remarkable puck handling skills. The trap forces teams to dump the puck in the neutral zone, Brodeur would then use his stick handling skills and make passes, immediately putting the Devils back on the attack. When Montreal played the trap, Roy was almost inept when it came to handling the puck. Therefore he could not limit shots or scoring opportunities as Brodeur did. Brodeur gets criticized for not facing as many shots on average per game as Roy or Hasek. However, instead of stopping shots, he was stopping the scoring/shooting chances all together by handling the puck, simultaneously creating a scoring opportunity for his team. What more could you want in a ...more

Brodeur has seven, yes, SEVEN 40 win seasons. Hasek has one. Roy has one. Brodeur has 691 regular season wins. Roy has 551. Hasek has 389. Brodeur's puck playing ability is unmatched, and the NHL had to adapt to him, not the other way around. The most consistent player in any sport ever. If he had the rare bad game, he would bounce back with a shutout. He has the records, longevity, and credentials to truly be the greatest goalie of all time.

Not only is he the best, but he is also the most recognised as the best. Barely anybody has heard of Patrick Roy. I hadn't heard of him until I looked up top ten Ice Hockey Goalies of All time and found this website.

Pretty much every record out their it will be under brodeurs name.
Best goalie ever and he's still playing
Last Year his team made the finals and are expected to be good this year
MARTY"S THE BEST

What on earth? 3? That is RIDICULOUS! St. Patrick deserves #1 for sure! Maybe Martin Brodeur could compete, but Dominik Hasek? Seriously? No. Patrick Roy is the best goalie of all time, hands down.

My team is the Ava and Roy was a God but how many of us wanted to choke him when he would leave the net to play the puck. Why? Because he had no skills away and every time he did we got scored on. That is why he isn't the greatest. I watched hasek in those Stanley cup playoffs exhibit superior skill away from the net and Roy and ego would do the same and I'm screaming no NoNoNo and we know the rest. Hasek punked Roy every match they met. DOMINATOR for a reason.

Roy could of went to any team and won, Marty was a product of the trap system... And would of not been any good on a team that didn't have such a great defense. He played in a different era than Roy with giant pads, small nets, the crap ass two line pass. If we played for the islanders we wouldn't be having this convo., but Patrick woulda made any team relevent... Any team. And just to put a nice bow on all this 2001 Cup Finals Roy vs. Marty who won again? Oh right Roy, enough said...

Most playoff wins and most con smyths no doubt cannot be touched. Not even by wayne gretzky. Even Gretzky picks Roy over Bordeur as the best all time. Has most playoff wins. Has more assists than Brodeur and played way less games. Hasek does not come close in playoff wins. That is his and the Blackhawks problem if he did not start early enough. We are not phycks to predict what would happen. We only go by facts. Roy more accomplishments than Hasek.

As a goalie myself. I found him to be extremely intimidating to players because he very rarely gave them a second chance from rebounds. His very quick reflexes reduced quick passes, redirects, and deflections by 50% at least. The saddest part is that he was not allowed to play in the N.H.L. so that he could set new standards for up and coming goalies. I'm positive that he would have set records that like Gretzky and Orr would not be matched or beaten for years. By far an unsung hero.

Tretiak was the most intimidating goalie to ever put on pads. His three gold medals and one silver spanning 12 years of near total dominance are unprecedented. In that time Tretiak won every game played against NHL teams including all star competitions. Had he been allowed to play in the NHL for those 12 plus years, all indications are that Tretiak would have dominated the NHL.

Tretiak was feared by the Americans. That should be enough to take the Number 1 spot. He stopped some of the best NHL goal scorers. If the Soviet Union let him play in the NHL, there is no doubt in my mind that he would be Number 1. You can't discredit him for playing on a rival "team," you have to give credit where credit is do.

I was very young when my primary school shut down to watch Canada vs Russia.
Even though I am a true Canadian and love hockey, all I remember about that time was now mater how good our players were...he stopped goal after goal after goal.
I think he was the best...

4 Stanley Cups, 103 wins with smaller schedules, and unbelievable 4 shutouts and 8 straight wins in the Stanley cup playoffs. Best goalie ever!

Put his body on the line at an age when keepers didn't wear face masks. THAT'S how hard he was. Check his stats. Legend

As far as I concerned, Terry Sawchuck was the greatest hockey goaltender of all time.

Most entertaining goalie on the ice today. Combines skill, natural talent and just plain fun to watch

He's awesome and he just got six wins Ina row with penguins.

I love Flower! Great personality and a great goaltender.

I love the way MCFLEURY plays! Very fast and his vision is just insane!

I think he should be ahead of brodeur. Brodeur is very overrated and I think Lundqvist is very underrated. Lundqvist has a better save percentage, and has the record for most consecutive game seven wins ever, which shows his clutchness. Brodeur got all his wins on one of the best defensive teams of all time while Lundqvist had to get his on a team with a crappy defense for the last 10 years. For as long as I have seen Lundqvist in net the rangers have never had a GOOD defense. And Lundqvist still managed to get a better save percentage then Brodeur. Think about this Brodeur has a worse save percentage then Lundqvist by a lot but a better goals against average. How is this so? This is because Brodeur faced a lot less shots on his great defensive team so he gave up more goals per shot then Lundqvist but still gave up less goals per game because he only had like 15-20 shots against him per game. This is why save percentage is way more accurate in ranking goalies then goals against ...more

The best goalie ever in Sweden and I think that he is good even if he lost many games in NHL. But I say the lose many games because of the New York Rangers defense man, and that they traded away Marian Gaborik.

He deserves to be much higher...Best goalie in Rangers History. He defiantly deserves to e higher than Ben Bishop, Fleury and Rinne.

Easy the greatest goaltender of all time. He led the comeback series win against the Capitals when the Rangers were down 3-1.

Who could hate Rinne? There's some dumb Quick fanboy in the comments that hates Pekka for some reason, but this guy is everything you can want in a player and a person. Extremely Humble guy who more than deserves the cup

Best finnish goalie sharp and very good blocker. Good with team play and doesent take any bad riskies. Good winning precent because he is good

Best in Predators history. He will never be forgotten! Possibly 1st ballot

Vote 4 Rinne! Still somehow one of the most underrated Goalies ever

Carried Canucks to the finals in 2011 wherein he had two shutouts and currently making a horrendous team appear at least respectable in Florida. Lu was simply never fortunate enough to be blessed with a dominant team.

Luongo has always played elite tier he has only played on a good team for 1 or 2 years and yet he is amoung the best in wins. he carries every team he has been on and gets the unfair blame because he couldn't win a game by being the only person on the ice to actually be playing

Don't forget he won the Olympic gold for Canada in Vancouver in 2010. He should be Number 1!

He does not deserve to be this low!

1st goalie to score a goal in the regular season and playoffs. By far the most aggressive and feared goalie ever! Youtube Ron Hextall and you will have a greater respect for him!

Eh... Tim Thomas is better than him when it comes to Bruins goalies.

He needs to be above RINNE. He is amazing he always makes amazing saves. Love him. I'm a goalie person I like other positions but love goalies but I HATE rinne.

The most naturally skilled goalie ever.

Kings won the cup with this guy!