#terry sawchuk

[yzerman]

April 29, 1967 - An exhausted Terry Sawchuk relaxing with a smoke in the dressing room after having saved 37 shots in the game

[thingsmk1120sayz]

[sergeifyodorov]

30 days until Maple Leafs hockey | Terry Sawchuk wore #30 for the Leafs for the 1965-66 and 1966-67 seasons.

[lil-doodles]

Many of you may have seen the photo I drew this from on the internet. Most posters claim that the photo is real but it was actually touched up by a make-up artist and a doctor to show the many injuries that Toronto Maple Leafs goalie Terry Sawchuk suffered throughout his career. By all accounts I've read he was kind of a miserable jerk. There is a documentary about him called Goalie (2020) and boy is it depressing.

[acheronist]

ok i love my goalie so bad its honestly kind of sickening. ALEX LYON YOU WILL WIN CUPS AND HANG IN THE RAFTERS LIKE THE GREATEST RED WINGS GOALIES BEFORE YOU ‼️

[aiiaiiiyo]

[whitenikes]

everyone start making the proper sacrifices and honors to our goalie god terry sawchuk so he may bless lyon with victory

[arenastomapleleafs]

Terry Sawchuk

[wehaveagathering]

🐺 for the ask game!!

OHOHOHOHO HELLO

okay, i get another shot at this lineup.

🐺 Build a NHL starting line up (3F, 2D, 1G) based on a really weird criteria for comedic effect (e.g. guys with names that sound like Dylan).

G - Terry Sawchuk

D - Brent Burns

D - Duncan Keith

F - Sean Couturier

F - Max Domi

F - Bobby Clarke

this is a list of guys who play/played sans teeth, just for you baby!! the vibes would be rancid. get domi and coots tf out of there.

[yzerman]

[secondlifep]

Terry Sawchuk – The face of a hockey goalie before masks became standard game equipment, 1966.

Tough as fucking nails ....

[thingsmk1120sayz]

[sergeifyodorov]

Support your argument if you wish! Or not LOL

[iamidentical]

just started reading the book of poems about terry sawchuk (goalie, nhl, 50s&60s) and i'm already losing it

[de-temple]

The face of a hockey goalie Terry Sawchuk before masks became standard game equipment, 1966

#TerrySawchuk

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[acheronist]

actually can you say more things about the octopus in detroit I have never understood it ._.

come here nonnie... let me spin u a yarn.... IMAGINE: the year is 1952 and these are our boys. noteable skaters include terry sawchuk (perhaps the nhl's most bonkers ass off the shits goalie of all time) as well as one of the most famous scoring player combinations, The Production Line (gordie howe / sid abel / ted lindsay)

nhl playoffs were two best-of-seven games series to win the cup, so the red wings needed to win eight games to win the cup (spoiler: they do win) but to support the team, and to represent the eight games necessary to win, two fans (who were brothers & also business owners in eastern market-- detroit's largest outdoors farmer's and grocer's market--) brought a dead octopus into the arena and tossed it onto the ice of olympia arena (which has since been demolished. rip.) for good luck with the series.

and, somehow, either by magic or coincidence or sheer ferocious dedication to their sport, the red wings end up completely shutting out the montreal canadiens during the second 4 game series and winning the cup. (2 games were shutouts, and 2 games only allowed one goal, which in and of itself was record breaking stuff for the league at the time). and then they also won the stanley cup again in the next year as well.

SO SINCE then, the tradition has evolved and grown and the octopus has become an unofficial mascot for the team, while also acting as a good luck token, and also as a martyred sacrifice to invoke the hockey gods' will to change the fate of the red wings when things look dismal, or we need a wholehearted change.

in the late 1990s when the team was a fucking dynasty of unbeatable freaks, the head zamboni driver was in charge of going out onto the ice and collecting the octopi corpses, and in a hyping-up-the-crowd move, he invented the Octopus Twirl wherein he would pick it up and twirl it over his head in a circle, which is objectively very gross and kinda eehhh :-/ by todays standards, but was cool and very fun at the time. so the nhl had to shut it down because there would be little bits of octopi corpse debris scattered and schlopped around the ice and it was technically a danger for the skaters. anyways people loved this bit though and so the unofficial octopus mascot was thusly named Al, after the zamboni driver, and we had this fucking thang ⬇️ that descended down from the ceilings during playoffs just so nobody ever forgot THIS IS FUCKING HOCKEYTOWN BABEEEEYYYYYY

also notably, when the joe louis arena (the team's long term arena after the olympia had been demolished) was next on the chopping block after decades of being the latest winning roster's home away from home, 35 octopi were tossed onto the ice during the last game as a farewell but also a promise that better things would come for the team. since the JLA was demolished tho, the teams luck tanked a lot and we have not been even remotely good for quite a few years due to UM, A LOT OF THINGS, WHICH IS ANOTHER ESSAY I CAN WRITE FOR YOU, but finally the team is getting genuinely competitive and fun to watch again. but regardless of this flop era behavior, there have still definitely been octopi getting tossed onto the ice because well... we love the team despite it all and always want the best for them !

🥅🏒🐙

hope this helps mwah mwah mwah