Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff reports that one Nicklas Lidstrom believes that Dominik Hasek is the best goaltender he ever played in front of:
Detroit Red Wings seven-time Norris Trophy winner Nicklas Lidstrom was the greatest defenseman of his generation. If you are ready to debate that statement, you are what we like to call wrong.
Maybe you can debate the greatest goaltender of Lidstrom’s NHL generation. Some might vote for Patrick Roy. Others will lean toward Martin Brodeur.
Lidstrom has his choice in this debate and it’s none of the above.
His ballot is cast towards his old Red Wings teammate Dominik Hasek.
“Yes. Dom is the best goalie I’ve ever been on a team with,” Lidstrom told Czech website isport.cz. “I have to say, he had an incredible competitive spirit. And he had a unique style. All he cared about was stopping the puck. He subordinated everything to that.”
Continued; in terms of one game’s worth of play, I’d pick Hasek over Roy and Brodeur. Hasek never had the durability of the Canadian goaltenders, but for one game, or a playoff series, nobody dominated like the Dominator.
