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With our 4th pick, The Flying Elbows are proud to name our Starting Goaltender...

A man who never cared about personal stats, placing team victories and championships above all else... the man whom Wayne Gretzky called "the greatest goaltender in history"... Five Stanley Cups and a lifetime of nightmares for any Flames fan...

From Spruce Grove, Alberta... Grant Fuhr!

In 1979, at the age of seventeen, Fuhr joined the Victoria Cougars of the WHL. After two stellar seasons in Victoria, which included the league championship and a trip to the Memorial Cup in 1981, Fuhr was drafted 8th overall by the Edmonton Oilers in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft. He played for the Oilers for ten seasons, where he teamed up with Andy Moog for several of them to form one of the most formidable goaltending tandems in history, and won five Stanley Cups. He was the team's starting goaltender on the first four teams, but was injured and did not play in the 1990 playoffs, when the Oilers won for the fifth time. Fuhr played in the National Hockey League All-Star Game in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, and 1989. In 1987, he played in goal for the NHL All-Stars in both games of the Rendez-Vous '87 series against the Soviet National Team. In 1987, Fuhr backstopped Canada to a victory at the Canada Cup, playing in all nine games, then played in 75 regular season and 19 playoff games. He won his only Vezina Trophy as the NHL's top goaltender that year and finished second in voting for the Hart Memorial Trophy as league MVP, behind Mario Lemieux and ahead of teammate Wayne Gretzky.

Awards

* Named to NHL Second All-Star Team in 1982
* Stanley Cup Champion 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990
* Canada Cup Champion 1984, 1987
* Named to NHL First All-Star Team in 1988
* Won Vezina Trophy in 1988
* Won William M. Jennings Trophy in 1994 (shared with Dominik Hašek)
* Participated in NHL All-Star Game in 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986 (MVP), 1988, 1989