Ranking Every Toronto Maple Leafs Starting Goalie Since the 90s
By James Tanner
Toronto Maple Leafs Goalies Fun Facts:
Only 5 x in the last 33 years did the Leafs make it through the season with just two goalies.
Only 3 x in the 33 years did the Leafs use the same goalies for two straight seasons. Once with Rhodes/Potvin, once with Joseph/Healy and once with Belfour/Kidd/Tellqvist.
In each of the last two seasons, the Leafs used 5 x goalies, something that didn’t happen once between 1990-91 and 2021-22.
Sparks, Rhodes, Reece, and Joseph all made return runs after one or most seasons away. All year-to-year info and stats from hockeydb.com.
The Leafs had 11 GMs over this 33 season period, including Cliff Fletcher twice.
They had 12 coaches over the same period.
They used 48 goalies.
Four of those goalies (Potvin, Joseph, Reimer, Andersen) stuck around for four years or more, but only three of them were starters. Overall, the Toronto Maple Leafs have lacked stability in net for the past 33 years.
Home-grown goalies are a rarity: Jeff Reece, Allan Bester, Peter Ing, Felix Potvin, Damian Rhodes, Mikael Tellqvist, Antoine Bibeau, James Reimer and Joseph Woll were all drafted by the Leafs. That is 9 of the 48 goalies total, but only Reimer and Potvin made any impact in the NHL.
Drafting two (three if Woll has a career) good NHL goalies in 33 years is pathetic.
Three of the 48 goalies (Belfour, Barrasso, Fuhr) are in the Hall of Fame.
One of those goalies, Curtis Joseph, should be.
They made the playoffs 18/33 times. Including the last seven in a row.
Only 8 out of those 48 goalies have a playoff victory. (Woll, Samsonov, Potvin, Joseph, Andersen, Campbell, Belfour, Reimer)
Only four of those goalies (Potvin, Joseph, Belfour, Samsonov) have a playoff series victory.