Goaltender movement
I was going over some old notes and I discovered the goaltending duos used in the NHL at the end of the 2005/06 season, a mere year and a half ago. I was shocked to see that only two teams had the same tandem and five teams had completely different netminders.
The two that were the same were Washington, with Olaf Kolzig and Brent Johnson, and Colorado, who had Peter Budaj and Jose Theodore (who had been acquired from Montreal a scant two months earlier).
The five teams that had switched their goaltending around completely included: Florida, Phoenix, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Toronto and Vancouver.
Here is a listing of goaltenders:
Anaheim - 2005/06 Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Ilya Bryzgalov
2007 Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Jonas Hiller
Atlanta - 2005/06 Kari Lehtonen, Mike Dunham
2007 Kari Lehtonen, Johan Hedberg
Boston - 2005/06 Tim Thomas, Andrew Raycroft
2007 Tim Thomas, Manny Fernandez, Tuukka Rask, Alexander Auld
Buffalo - 2005/06 Ryan Miller, Martin Biron
2007 Ryan Miller, Jocelyn Thibault
Calgary - 2005/06 Miikka Kiprusoff, Brian Boucher
2007 Miikka Kiprisoff, Curtis McElhinney
Carolina - 2005/06 Martin Gerber, Cam Ward
2007 Cam Ward, John Grahame
Chicago -2005/06 Nikolai Khabibulin, Craig Anderson
2007 Nikolai Khabibulin, Patrick Lalime
Colorado- 2005/06 Peter Budaj, Jose Theodore
2007 same
Columbus- 2005/06 Marc Denis, Pascal Leclaire
2007 Pascal Leclaire, Fredrik Norrena
Dallas - 2005/06 Marty Turco, Johan Hedberg
2007 Marty Turco, Mike Smith
Detroit - 2005/06 Manny Legace, Chris Osgood
2007 Dominik Hasek, Chris Osgood
Edmonton - 2005/06 Dwayne Roloson, Jussi Markkanen
2007 Dwayne Roloson, Mathieu Garon
Florida - 2005/06 Roberto Luongo, Jamie McLennan
2007 Tomas Vokoun, Craig Anderson
Los Angeles - 2005/06 Marthieu Garon, Jason Labarbera
2007 Jason Labarbera, Jean-Sebastien Aubin, Jon Quick
Minnesota - 2005/06 Manny Fernandez, Josh Harding
2007 Niklas Backstrom, Josh Harding
Montreal - 2005/06 Cristobal Huet, David Aebischer
2007 Cristobal Huet, Carey Price
Nashville - 2005/06 Tomas Vokoun, Chris Mason
2007 Chris Mason, Dan Ellis
New Jersey - 2005/06 Martin Brodeur, Scott Clemmensen
2007 Martin Brodeur, Kevin Weekes
Islanders - 2005/06 Rick DiPietro, Garth Snow
2007 Rick DiPietro, Wade Dubielewicz
Rangers - 2005-06 Henrik Lundqvist, Kevin Weekes
2007 Henrik Lundqvist, Stephen Valiquette
Ottawa - 2005/06 Ray Emery, Dominik Hasek, Mike Morrison
2007 Martin Gerber, Ray Emery
Philadelphia - 2005/06 Antero Niittymaki, Robert Esche
2007 Martin Biron, Antero Niittymaki
Phoenix - 2005/06 Curtis Joseph, David LeNeveu
2007 Ilya Bryzgalov, Mikael Tellqvist
Pittsburgh - 2005/06 Marc-Andre Fleury, Sebastien Caron, Jocelyn Thibault
2007 Marc-Andre Fleury, Dany Sabourin
St. Louis - 2005/06 Patrick Lalime, Reinhard Divis, Curtis Sanford
2007 Manny Legace, Hannu Toivonen
San Jose - 2005/06 Vesa Toskala, Evgeni Nabokov
2007 Evgeni Nabokov, Dimitri Patzold
Tampa Bay - 2005/06 John Grahame, Gerald Coleman, Sean Burke
2007 Johan Holmqvist, Marc Denis
Toronto - 2005/06 Mikael Tellqvist, Jean-Sebastien Aubin, Ed Belfour
2007 Vesa Toskala, Andrew Raycroft
Vancouver - 2005/06 Alex Auld, Mika Noronen, Dan Cloutier
2007 Roberto Luongo, Curtis Sanford
Washington - 2005/06 Olaf Kolzig, Brent Johnson
2007 same
It's interesting the number of goaltenders who have shifted around and the number who are no longer in the NHL. The Kings situation is interesting in that Labarbera is on the depth charts in both years but did not play at all in 2006/07.





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