Player Profile

Terry Sawchuck

Terry Sawchuck
Last Leaf To Win The Vezina Trophy 1964-65

Career

  • Club Name: Toronto Maple Leafs
Toronto Maple Leafs 0 Matches Played

Overview

Terry Sawchuck was the last Leaf to win the Vezina Trophy, along with Johnny Bower

From Wikipedia:

Terrance Gordon Sawchuk (December 28, 1929 – May 31, 1970) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings and the New York Rangers. He won the Calder Trophy, earned the Vezina Trophy in four different seasons, was a four-time Stanley Cup champion, and was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame the year after his final season, one of only ten players ever for whom the three year waiting period was waived.
 
At the time of his death, Sawchuk was the all-time leader among NHL goaltenders with 447 wins and with 103 shutouts. In the many decades following his death, his wins record has been surpassed by only five goaltenders, and his shutouts record has been surpassed by one goaltender, though Sawchuk will forever remain the all-time leader in wins and shutouts by goaltenders who played in the Original Six era. In 2017 Sawchuk was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.
 

Awards and achievements
USHL Rookie of the Year (1948)
AHL Rookie of the Year (1949)
Calder Memorial Trophy winner (1951)
NHL All-Star Game (1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1963, 1964, and 1968)
NHL First All-Star Team (1951, 1952, and 1953)
NHL Second All-Star Team (1954, 1955, 1959, and 1963)
Vezina Trophy winner (1952, 1953, 1955, and 1965)
Stanley Cup championships (1952, 1954, 1955, and 1967)
Lester Patrick Trophy winner (1971)
First ever goaltender to record 100 career regular-season shutouts (1967)
Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1971
Inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 1982
In 1998, he was ranked number 9 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players, the highest-ranking goaltender
In 2010, he was ranked number 1 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players by position (goaltenders ranking)
Detroit Red Wings #1 retired on March 6, 1994
Selected to Manitoba's All-Century First All-Star Team
Selected as Manitoba's Player of the Century
“Honoured Member” of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame
Inducted into the Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1975.
In January 2017, Sawchuk was part of the first group of players to be named '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.


Records
NHL record - Career ties leader - 172.
Sawchuk's NHL record for career shutouts (103) stood until broken by Martin Brodeur in 2009. Sawchuk held the record for shutouts for 46 years. He passed George Hainsworth with his 95th shutout on January 18, 1964 for the all-time shutout record.