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Originally Posted by GS Skier
No "big name" "traded for" goalie has won a Stanley Cup basically since the lock out. None. 16 years or more? Want me to post the break down ....again???
This string is about speculation. I'll speculate right back at all of you who want to shell out for a "big name" goalie. Its a lot of money for stop gap. Talbots as good as any stop gap mentor for young Goalies and cheaper. I don't want a plugged nickle spent on washed up Holtby, washed up Fluery or Markstrom even if he is playing well.
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Which lockout? The one that was in 2012/13? Then yes, the last 8 goalies to win the Cup were drafted by the team they won with.
The lockout cancelled season? Well, here is where your "none" is wrong. Tim Thomas won it with Boston in 2011. He wasn't drafted by Boston. He signed with them. The year before that (2010), Antti Niemi was the winning goalie for Chicago and he wasn't drafted either.
I'm not sure how you want to clasisfy the 2008 Stanley Cup Championship. Chris Osgood was the winning goalie for Detroit, and while he was originally drafted by them, he was technically re-acquired by Detroit after playing for two other teams in between his two stints in Detroit. Since Detroit didn't draft him for his 2nd stint with the team, I would argue that you can't include him in the "drafted by" category.
The winning goalie in 2007 was JS Gigure. He was playing for his 3rd team.
Then we get to the bad year of 2004. The winning goalie was Khabibulin and he wasn't drafted by Tampa Bay either.
So the last 16 Stanley Cups were won by, not 16 goalies who were drafted by the winning team, but 12. So your claims of zero goalies to have been traded for or signed are a bit off. However, if you meant the 2012/13 lockout shortened season, then yes, only goalies drafted by the winning team won the cup.
I got curious and looked it up. The years a team won with a goalie that they didn't draft.
2011, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2004, 2002, 2001, 1999, 1997, 1996, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980.
I stopped at 1980, but could have easily included most of the 70s, as Ken Dryden was the 1st drafted goalie to win the Stanley Cup, but he wasn't drafted by Montreal. 17 years out of 40 were won by goalies not drafted. If you want to include Dryden, it is 23/47. Winning the Stanley Cup is not exlusive to teams who use a goalie they drafted. As you can see, there are trends where it happens and when it doesn't happen. We're in that trend right now where teams who win have been using the goalie they drafted.