In recent years you hardly see any goalie fights. That is because you very rarely see a good old fashion line brawl. With every player on the ice going at it. Hockey has sure changed alot over time. I kind of miss goalies going at it. It was actually a thing of beauty to see it as it about to happen. The one goalie will come out towards the blue line to challenge the other goalie to come down. Or the goalie will get involved with a player and the other goalie has to charge down and get involved. Some goalies looked so awkward trying to fight with all them pads. And some can just dish out beatings.
Just thinking back from the 80's and 90's. You had Ron Hextall, Garth Snow, Ray Emery, Felix Potvin, Dan Cloutier who were tougher out of all the ones that fought. Even these goalies dropped their blocker and glove. Patrick Roy, Mike Vernon, Chris Osgood, Marty Biron, Sami Salo, Dominik Hasek, Tomas Vokoun, Miikka Kiprusoff, Sean Burke, Byron Dafoe, Glen Healey, Brian Hayward just to name some. The list goes on over them years.
Ron Hextall is a rare goalie not only who won a Vezina in his rookie year. But also scored multiple goals and fought multiple times throughout his career. I myself personally think that Hextall was the craziest goalie. But I don't know if he was the toughest. You always have to love a crazy or tough goalie who also is pretty good on top of it. If two goalies can fight today, I would like to see (Flyers) Ray Emery vs Ben Bishop (Blues). Ben Bishop is the 3rd goalie on the blues now. He is the tallest goalie to ever play in a game. He is a monster at 6'7 and he is only 23. He will get his chance to play eventually. The blues have two old goalies. Maybe we will see this one day after all...
Please watch videos below before voting!!!
Ron Hextall vs Felix Potvin
Patrick Roy vs Chris Osgood
Dan Cloutier vs Sami Salo
Patrick Roy vs Mike Vernon
Garth Snow vs Steve Shields
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