I've been an Everett STH for the past few years; of course we miss Hart but haven't missed a beat with Wolf. He is the real deal and an absolute steal for late 7th round.
Like all goalies needs time to develop, but a very real shot at being an NHLer. Glad to see the 'Tips fans that made the short drive up I-5 to show some support. Excited!!
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He has really good stats and seems to have been quite highly touted. Why did he fall so far?
Small, and Everett seems to play a system that leads to good goalie stats without necessarily having good goalies. Kind of like the Islanders last year.
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This video of Tre talking about Wolf at beginning shows a glimpse of the flames crew in the box....and low and behold, sitting on the sofa with a white shirt, hair slicked back and tie around his neck? Burkie. Love that guy.
As much as the super-tall goalies get all the hype, it certainly isn't a requirement to win in the NHL.
I got curious as to the heights of the recent Cup winning goalies (then, I kept going beyond "recent"). Heights are from hockeydb.com...
Binnington: 6'1"
Holtby: 6'2"
Murray: 6'4"
Crawford: 6'2"
Quick: 6'1"
Thomas: 5'11"
Niemi: 6'2"
Fleury: 6'2"
Osgood: 5'10"
Giguere: 6'1"
Ward: 6'1"
Kiprusoff: 6'1"
Brodeur: 6'2"
Hasek: 6'2"
Roy: 6'0"
Belfour: 5'11"
Vernon: 5'9"
Richter: 5'11"
Barrasso: 6'3"
Ranford: 5'11"
Fuhr: 5'11"
Moog: 5'9"
Smith: 5'10"
Dryden: 6'4"
Matt Murray is 6'4". You have to go all the way back to Ken Dryden in the late-70s to find the next most-recent (and only other) 6'4" Cup-winning goalie. Murray, Dryden, and Barrasso are the only Cup-winning goalies in NHL history to exceed 6'2".
In fact, looking at that list, when there is a height-discrepancy between goalies in the Final, the shorter goalie usually wins. Post-lockout, it looks like 2009, when Fleury beat Osgood, is the only year that the taller goalie in the Final won the Cup.
Even though Murray is the tallest goalie to win the Cup in the last 40 years, he was shorter than Rinne and the same height as Jones in the two years he won.
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Wolf might seem short when compared to guys like Rinne, Bishop, or Smith, but he's not that much shorter than Binnington, Quick, or even Kipper.
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