When it comes to goaltending aesthetics, Linus Ullmark and Tim Thomas are roughly as similar as a Lamborghini and a Zamboni.
Ullmark is a half-foot taller at 6-feet-5-inches and the picture of poise in the net. When the Buffalo Sabres drafted him with the 163d pick in the 2012 NHL Draft, eliteprospects.com described him as a “conservative, yet athletic, reactionary-type goalie who plays in a positional style most closely linked to the modern battle-fly” and noted that he “doesn’t take risks.” He made his NHL debut at 22 years old.
During his nine NHL seasons, the first eight spent with the Bruins, Thomas … well, yeah, he took risks, which is a primary reason why he never played more than four games in an NHL season until sticking with the 2005-06 Bruins when he was 31 years old.