Posted on 09/06/2025 11:08:56 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Ken Dryden, who was on the call for the "Miracle on Ice" following a Hall of Fame playing career, has died at the age of 78 after battling cancer.
Dryden won six Stanley Cups in a short eight-year career, all with the Montreal Canadiens. He is the NHL's all-time leader in adjusted goals-against average (2.03) and goals-allowed percentage (73).
He won the Vezina Trophy, given to the top goaltender in the league, five times. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Final Minute of the “Miracle on Ice”
https://rumble.com/viythz-final-minute-of-the-miracle-on-ice.html
RIP Mr. Dryden. You were one of the best goalies to ever don an NHL sweater.
By being a participant in the “Miracle on Ice” call, Dryden’s place in American history is secured. Ditto for Al Michaels.
A remarkable career. Here’s a good one to remember for a future trivia game.... Who is the only player (hockey but perhaps any sport) who won MVP in the playoffs before winning Rookie of the Year in a subsequent year?
First Davey Johnson not Dryden....
Phenomenal goalie....i was a BIG hockey fan in the 70’s and the Canadians always beat my Rangers, in large part due to Dryden...
He actually had to leave the 80’s Olympics for one day to take the bar exam, which he passed (Cornell grad). If you listen to the final 10 seconds of the Miracle on Ice, Dryden knew the Americans had won the game....right before Al Michaels famous “Do you believe in miracles?” you can hear Dryden say “ITS OVER!!” as the Americans poked the puck out of the zone...
Six Stanley Cups in 8 years; AMAZZZING !!
Oh my! RIP, Mr. Dryden. One of the greats!
Hall of Fame goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens, lawyer, author, hockey executive, and Member of Parliament.
I honestly thought he'd be an ideal Prime Minister of Canada back about 20 years ago.
Who referred to it as the Miracle on ice for the first time?
Dryden was a large part of the reason why those Canadiens’ teams won the Norris Division and knocked the Kings out in the playoffs, as the Kings Triple-Crown line (Dionne, Charlie Simmer, Dave Taylor) were dominant for scoring....
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That is totally arguable... Dryden was great but thanks to Scotty Bowman, the Montreal Canadiens in the 70s were the greatest hockey team ever assembled. One could go down the long list of great players but the defense in front of Dryden alone were all the best in the league. Good grief.... in the 1976-77 season, they lost only 8 games and 2 in the playoffs. I think that they could have put Stevie Wonder in at goal... or gone with no one in goal at all and go with 6 attackers and still outclass everyone in the league... they were that dominant. What I’m saying doesn’t take anything away from Dryden and his greatness... but he was one of a whole team of greats.
How I hated him in my youth. Hated him. He drove nails through the heart of the team I followed when I moved up to Massachusetts back in the early Seventies...the Bruins.
But one of the nice things about growing older is those things don’t matter anymore, and you can recognize the Greatness without the Hateness!
I played goalie for about 15 years of my life, and certainly came to highly respect him. A remarkable goalie, indeed.
Damned Octopus...:)
Heh, when the likes of Derek Sanderson, Phil Esposito, and Ken Hodge get up there, he will probably keep them out...but not Bobby Orr. He gets in...:)
He was a politician, too, and could have become PM in Canada or at least his party’s candidate.
And apparently, a writer as well.
What’s more, as that guy from The Office was always saying, Dryden went to “Cornell, ever heard of it?”
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