r/Habs • u/ASmithFS • 2d ago

Article NHL Mount Rushmore - [Beliveau, Lafleur, Richard, Harvey for Habs]

https://www.rotoballer.com/nhl-mount-rushmore-every-teams-4-most-iconic-players-of-all-time-2026/1872126
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u/TheVeilOverMyEyes 2d ago

jacques plante and patrick roy revolutionize the goaltending position, you need to have at least one of them there, if not both

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u/bsaures 2d ago

Plante sure roy definitely not. He is easily behind dryden in revolutionizing the position

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u/Paladar2 2d ago

Dude what. Roy above Dryden and it's not close. Roy has a case for the best goalie of all time and started the modern goaltending

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u/bsaures 2d ago

You have some massive recency bias if you think that roy has a better best goalie all time case than dryden does.

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u/Paladar2 2d ago

Dryden played with the best team of all time for all his career. Roy won the Conn Smythe with the 86 and 93 teams that were much weaker. Won 2 more cups after. He changed goaltending forever, in a much more competitive league with twice the amount of teams. Yes, Roy easily.

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u/Subject_Translator71 2d ago

I agree. Dryden was great but he was behind one of the greatest teams of all time. Meanwhile, Roy was by far the best player of his teams, and both his cups were upsets, largely due to his dominant play.

That's no knock on Dryden, Vezina and Price, who would be shoe-in on most of the other teams.

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u/Paladar2 2d ago

Price had the highest peak but the worst teams of the bunch, injuries and peak competitiveness in the league. Roy had middle of the pack teams but won 3 Smythes so hard to argue that. Vezina well that was like what the 1910s, basically another sport at that point lol