Of the top 100 drafted players in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft, only nine were goaltenders.
Taken at number 83, late in the 3rd round, was the Penguins’ own Matt Murray. To date he has only played 62 NHL games. His career average numbers? A .925 save percentage and a very respectable 2.32 goals against average.
Matt has two Stanley Cups to his name and, at the young age of 23, a cult following that rivals Max Talbot, the hero of our 2009 Cup triumph. What Murray did in 2016, when he came in and saved the season and won the Cup in dramatic fashion will be the subject of sports lore for decades.