Team Marleau! Hammered! is pissed off at czure32 for taking Gerry Cheevers, but will fill its backup
Goalie slot with yet another "jerk"
Tom Barrasso
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Tom Barrasso grew up in the town of Stow, Massachusetts, playing ice hockey on an outdoor rink. He started playing goalie when he was only 5 years old and by the time he was a teenager, playing in net for Acton-Boxborough high school with fellow NHL players Bob Sweeney and Jeff Norton, Barrasso was considered one of the most promising American goaltending prospects of all time. He was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres with the 5th overall pick in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft, becoming the highest drafted goalie ever until Roberto Luongo was taken 4th overall in 1997. Skipping a college career, he went straight from high school to the NHL where he exceeded all expectations. At the time of his debut with the Sabres on October 5, 1983, less than six months after graduating from high school, Barrasso was the youngest goaltender to play and win a game in the NHL since Harry Lumley nearly forty years prior. He won the Calder Trophy and Vezina Trophy in his first season, becoming just the third player to win both awards in the same year.
In 1988, the Sabres traded Barrasso to the Pittsburgh Penguins where he won two Stanley Cups, in 1991 and 1992. It was his outstanding play in these Cup runs that established him as a "money goalie", someone who could deliver wins when it counted the most. In the following years, Barrasso almost entirely missed two seasons, the 1994–95 NHL season and the 1996–97 NHL season with injuries but came back with good performances in the next years. In 1997 he became the first American goaltender to record 300 NHL wins.
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Awards and achievements
Records
- Second most NHL wins by a U.S.-born goaltender - 369
- Most NHL assists by a goaltender - 48
- Most NHL points by a goaltender - 48
- Most consecutive NHL playoff wins - 14 (May 9, 1992 to April 22, 1993)
- Tied for most consecutive wins in one NHL playoff season - 11 in 1992
- Tied for most wins in one NHL playoff season - 16 (1992)
He played with Aeneas' Sabres pairing of Ramsey and Playfair and
made them look good.