Patrick Roy: The Butterfly Effect

Looking back at the career of Patrick Roy. Is he the most influential goaltender in the history of hockey?

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[mase]

Very entertaining video, deserves way more views. Subbed.

[jacobboaden]

Roy and hasek are the 2 greatest goalies ever. Hasek during the regular season, Roy during playoffs. Depends on your preference whose number 1

[momofthesouth]

I played doubles tennis with him 11 years ago!! I had no idea what a legend he is!!

[davidboucher]

It's hard to find another player that had as much impact on the success of his team. Wayne Gretzky was a great player but he won 4 cups in a row with a stacked team and never won again. I would argue that Mark Messier is a bigger winner than Gretzky for the fact that he won in Edmonton without Gretzky and got 6 cups in 3 different teams. Roy, is on a class of his own. The Canadiens were not supposed to win it all in 1986 and 1993.

[thenikko]

0:22 "history will be made"

[nikehp]

He set the record for the highest save percentage in Stanley cup finals history in 1996 with .974. He is the GOAT!!

[mddubeau]

I love the vid. as much as i'd have loved for him to be the fellow who introduced butterfly IN GENERAL, there were those that came before, Hall, Esposito comes to mind. But he DID elevate the style, which in some circles is called 'profly', or for guys like me 'quebec-style' butterfly. Tony Esposito had a beautiful stance... he projected his stick far out in front of him with a wide stance. if the puck skipped over his stick, he was ready with the pads. he did not show a lot of the net. Patrick was compact with knees touching but his feet spaced a good distance apart, he was expert at cutting the angles and super fast reactions. you thought you had a hole... and then you didn't.

[Aerospacer]

Glen Hall and Tony Esposito was perfecting the butterfly style long before Roy was perfecting it.

[canuck_gamer]

The strange thing to me (as someone who grew up watching those 1980 Montreal teams) was that perhaps the best team he played on, at least in Montreal, was the 1989, a year that he did NOT win the Cup. That team was coached by the late, great Pat Burns and had a fabulous team top to bottom and despite having a 2-1 series lead with game 4 at home, they failed to win the series and in fact, didn't win another game. Undoubtedly the best playoff goalie of all time. Hasek gets too much credit. Compare the teams in Buffalo that he played on to the 1986 Habs, they were at least as good but they never won. The wings had already won with mediocre goaltending in Osgood, so Hasek was good enough and seldom had to be much better than that. Roy played on at least 2 and probably 3 teams (each year being a different version of that team) that unquestionably would NOT have won without him.

[GeoAce]

Wow G7 OT versus the Whalers 🐳 gotta check that out!!!!

[Michaelbos]

Glenn Hall, Tony Esposito introduced the butterfly way before Roy. Do your history if you’re going to make a video.