Hockey goaltenders are a breed apart, from normal players. Even by today’s era of over-sized pads and catching mitts, it takes a special character to play a position where a frozen rubber object can be shot you at 100+ mph (Fastest – Zdeno Chara 108.8mph). On the pantheon of all time great goaltenders, the name Terry Sawchuk stood tall for decades. At the time of his untimely death in 1970, the tragic former Detroit goaltender great was the most winning netminder, as well as compiling the most shutouts in NHL history; this despite playing in an era when goaltenders were not afforded the luxury of extra padding, huge mitts or, not until Montreal Caadiens great Jacques Plante started wearing one, a mask. Director Adriana Maggs brings the life of the troubled to the screen in her new film Goalie.
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The story of Terry Sawchuk is much more than just one of wins and losses or GAA (goals against average) as we find out in Ms. Maggs’s film from our neighbors to the north. A winner of three Stanley Cups with the great Detroit Red Wings of the 1950s and 1960s, personal demons and untreated depression, the unpredictable Sawchuk would bounce around the league a shell of his former self.
Terry Sawchuk would lose his after suffering severe internal injuries after a drunken fight with a New York Rangers teammate.
His career and stats tell a tale of one of the greatest NHL netminders of all time
4rs Canadian based pr He won the Calder trophy as a Rookie, and the Vezina Trophy four times as the league’s best goaltender. To date, Terry Sawchuk is one of the best goalies to ever wear the mask. He won the Calder trophy as a Rookie, and the Vezina Trophy four times as the league’s best goaltender.
Sawchuk also held the record for shutout (103) for 46 years, a feat that wasn’t topped until Martin Brodeur did in 2009., as well as wins until being passed by four different goaltenders in the 2000s.
Canadian actor Mark O’Brien is Terry Sawchuk. Goalie also stars Kevin Pollak. The film initially drops in Canada before getting a broader worldwide theatrical release.
Check out the official synopsis of Goalie below:
The life of a professional hockey player was not always a glamorous one. For legendary goaltender Terry Sawchuk, each save means one more gash to his unmasked face and one more drink to numb the pain.
Even with a wife and seven children at home, he is haunted by the void left from his childhood which he tried to fill with cheering crowds.
Sawchuk traveled across the country racking up 103 shutouts and 400 stitches to his face, proving that this is a man who lives, breathes, and dies a goalie.
