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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Plus he’s in the HOF because of how he compared to his peers, and in that era, goalies were smaller (the thinking was big goalies weren’t agile enough). The year after Vernon won the cup, there were a ton of “small” goalies by todays standards - Darren Pang, Reddick, Fuhr, Ranford, Millen, Cujo, Richter, Beezer, Hrudey, Lemelin, Casey, all under 6’ (some of them a lot under). Roy seemed huge and he was six feet tall.
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Roy looked huge in net because he's the only one who perfected the butterfly style. The only other goalie that came close is Giguere after he went to the Ducks and finally won the Cup with them. Ranford was actually a joke of a goalie. Theo Fleury actually made him look silly with that famous deke
. Millen and Hrudey - meh. Small goalies like Vernon, Fuhr, Roy, Hasek, Brodeur, and Vanbiesbrouck are great. Vanbiesbrouck is only 5'8", probably the smallest of them all.