For a third year, the selection committee for the Hockey Hall of Fame passed over Chris Osgood.
It is only a matter of time.
Osgood’s career, measured by statistics, places him firmly within the pack of every goalie inducted since 2000.
There is a troublesome lack of buzz about him in the media this time of year, including the prognostications of inductees that crop up annually in late June. So many of them list goaltenders like Miikka Kiprusoff, Nikolai Khabibulin and Jean-Sebastien Giguere, whose careers fall short of Osgood’s.
Curtis Joseph is more in the neighborhood, and he gets a lot more mentions in the media.