Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff recounts the ten times that the Red Wings have had 4 or more goaltenders earn NHL wins in the same season this morning, all while discussing the Red Wings’ called-upon goaltending depth this season:
Both Sebastian Cossa (Monday, 6-5 shootout win at Buffalo) and Ville Husso (4-2 win Saturday over Toronto) were posting their first victories of the NHL season last week. For Husso, it was his first triumph in more than a year. In Cossa’s case, the win came in his NHL debut in relief of Hossa.
Combined with earlier wins this season by both Talbot and Lyon, that makes four different goalies putting up a W for the team already this season.
“Someone gave me a stat, we’re one of the first teams to have four goalie wins (from four different goalies) in the first certain amount of games of the year, which is a good sign,” Lalonde said.
He’s likely referencing the 1993-94 season. That campaign saw Detroit gather up a club-record wins from five different netminders – Peter Ing, Vincent Riendeau, Chris Osgood, Tim Cheveldae and Bob Essensa.
Continued; I have a Cheveldae Winnipeg Jets jersey, if you want to know how annoyed I was about the Cheveldae + Dallas Drake for Bob Essensa trade.
