Hall of fame goalie?

Question

Is Chris Osgood a Hall of Fame goaltender?

I think he has a good chance of making it in.

I mean he'll for sure get 400 wins with his age...(barring injury) has a 2.24 GAA career (or somewhere near there). I'm sure theres other stats I'm to lazy to look up cuz I'm tired but...i dont see any reason why he shouldn't be inducted to the HOF when he retires. Also up there in shutouts.

Answer 1

To me, Chris Osgood is the Dan Petry of hockey. What that means is this: Osgood was (and still is) a solid netminder who had some good years (mainly for Detroit, but let's not forget that he was part of the first Islander team to make the playoffs in quite some time back in 2001-02), but no seasons where one would just be "wow". The man was never a Vezina finalist, never the kind of goalie that would get mention in the NHL's top ten (and keep in mind, a Grant Fuhr who was nearing the end of a Hall Of Fame career got more pub than Osgood). Fair or unfair Osgood was the product (benifactor?) of a really efficient system in Detroit masterminded by Scotty Bowman. It is the same system than helped make Ken Dryden a legend, Tom Barrasso the best U.S. born goalie of the modern era (with apologies to Mike Richter), and Chris Osgood the most solid, if not unspectacular goalie in the NHL during the late 1990s.

Answer 2

"Wizard of "Oz" -- Chris Osgood technically may be Dominik Hasek's backup, but the Red Wings probably aren't in any rush to get "The Dominator" back on the ice -- not the way Osgood is playing.

Osgood improved to 7-0-0 this season with a 26-save performance in Detroit's 4-1 victory at Calgary on Thursday night. He's allowed just 10 goals in winning his seven starts this season, and is 14-0-5 since his last loss, 1-0 at St. Louis last Feb. 8.

Osgood's name doesn't often come up in a discussion of potential Hall of Famers, but he's going to force selectors to take a long look at him when he retires. Thursday night's win gave him a career mark of 343-186-66, with 24 overtime losses. He has 43 shutouts, a career goals-against average of 2.44 and two Stanley Cup rings, including a 16-win performance in the run to the 1998 Cup. At age 34 -- he turns 35 on Nov. 26 -- Osgood easily could finish with more than 400 wins"

Answer 3

No, Osgoode has no chance of making it into the Hall of Fame

1. He won 1 Stanley Cup, and backed up another. Tony Esposito is the only goalie in the Hall of Fame who has a Stanley Cup ring as a back-up. But he has a Calder Trophy, Vezinas galore, and led the league in shutouts in the 1970s, 8th in the 1980s, and led on 4 different ocassions. Osgood has no individual hardware.

2. He started this year needing 64 wins to get to 400, and since Holland has already said that Hasek is number 1 when he returns, and Howard is number 1 next year, I don't see Osgood hitting 400, at least not as a Red Wing

3. His career goals against average is 2.44. All in the big-pad era. When you consider that other HOF worthy goalies in the Big Pad era all have GAAs lower than 2.3 (Roy, Belfour, Hasek, Brodeur), Osgood falls short there as well.

4. 43 shutouts? He has a career shutout to games played ration of 15:1. Only Fuhr and Roy have worse averages in the Hall of Fame. Only Fuhr and Billy Smith have fewer shutouts in the Hall of Fame...........and 9 Stanley Cups, 2 Canada Cups, and 2 Vezinas explain why Smith and Fuhr are in the hall of Fame.

No, sadly, Osgood falls short on a lot of Hall of Fame standards. I know that LITY thinks that Joseph and Osgood stand an outside chance. But I think when you compare Osgoode to the other great goalies of the big-pad era, he falls short. But not by much.

Answer 4

The chances are about 50-50 for osgood. If your're looking for a hall of famer goalie for detroit, go with hasek. He was one of the best

Answer 5

i think he will but it might take a while after he retires to make it there. In the nhl over the past couple of years we have had tons of great players retire who will get there spots. I do think that if he was on another team he would probly be starting but its nice to have 2 hof goalies

Answer 6

Cyren
I never said that Joseph and Osgood stand an outside chance. I said if this was 1987, they would stand an outside chance.

Answer 7

I dunno. Don't you think the fact the Wings had to get Vernon and Hasek to win cups kind of weakens that chance? Sure he was on the team when it won a cup (or two) but Vernon got them there once and Hasek did it the other time.
Osgood still has some years left and maybe he puts up some numbers that are hard to argue with in that time but those two moves to replace him with a better goalie looks bad for him.

Is it any coincidence that Jude, Noah and the multiple thumbs down to all answers showed up at the same time?

Answer 8

Is he a good goalie or always had good teams in front of him. i don't think he is a HOF contender yet ... with goalies ages and the amount of time he sticks around .. his best might be yet to come. His first years in the NHL were not good ... a lot of people won't forget that either.

Answer 9

It's hard for me to believe he will ever make it. Hasek yes, Osgood no.

Puck: Ozzy actually led them there in 98'.

Answer 10

Hes a good goalie, but with everyone else in the league, he will be left un-noticed... i dont think he will be inducted...