Montreal Canadiens Jacques Plante makes a save as teammate Bud McPherson watches, stick raised, 1954. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wore his goalie mask for the first time ever on this day.
Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante is arguably the best goaltender in franchise history. He is certainly in the top three with Ken Dryden and Patrick Roy, but choosing one as the best of all time is difficult.
What isn’t difficult is deciding which individual moment in Habs goaltending history had the biggest impact on the game of hockey.
It wasn’t Patrick Roy winking at Tomas Sandstrom in the Stanley Cup Final.