Goalies are a different breed, the hockey axiom goes, and when it came to stopping the puck, no goalie was more different than Dominik Hasek.
"He tends goal the way Kramer enters Seinfeld's apartment, a package of flailing arms and wild gesticulations that somehow has a perfect logic." That's how Sports Illustrated's Michael Farber described him, name-checking two popular 1990s TV sitcom characters. In an era when goalies gravitated toward the "butterfly" style -- a structured and systematic approach to their position -- Hasek got superior results by appearing to be largely improvisational, to the point of having no style at all.
For more of Dominik Hasek's 100 Greatest Players bio, please click here.
Goalies are a different breed, the hockey axiom goes, and when it came to stopping the puck, no goalie was more different than Dominik Hasek.
"He tends goal the way Kramer enters Seinfeld's apartment, a package of flailing arms and wild gesticulations that somehow has a perfect logic." That's how Sports Illustrated's Michael Farber described him, name-checking two popular 1990s TV sitcom characters. In an era when goalies gravitated toward the "butterfly" style -- a structured and systematic approach to their position -- Hasek got superior results by appearing to be largely improvisational, to the point of having no style at all.
For more of Dominik Hasek's 100 Greatest Players bio, please click here.
NOTES & TRANSACTIONS
- WJC-A All-Star Team (1983)
- Best Goaltender at WJC-A (1983)
- Czechoslovakian Goaltender of the Year (1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990)
- Czechoslovakian Player of the Year (1987, 1989, 1990)
- WEC-A All-Star Team (1987, 1989, 1990)
- Best Goaltender at WEC-A (1987, 1989)
- Czechoslovakian First All-Star Team (1988, 1989, 1990)
- IHL First All-Star Team (1991)
- NHL All-Rookie Team (1992)
- NHL First All-Star Team (1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001 )
- Best Goaltender at Olympic Games (1998)
- Played in NHL All-Star Game (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002)
- Traded to Buffalo by Chicago for Stephane Beauregard and Buffalo's 4th round pick (Eric Daze) in 1993 NHL Draft, August 7, 1992.
- Traded to Detroit by Buffalo for Vyacheslav Kozlov, Detroit's 1st round pick (later traded to Columbus -- later traded to Atlanta -- Atlanta selected Jim Slater) in 2002 NHL Draft, July 1, 2001.
- Officially announced his retirement, June 25, 2002.
- Detroit picked up the option on his contract, July 1, 2003.
- Signed as a free agent by Ottawa, July 6, 2004.
- Signed as a free agent by Detroit, July 31, 2006.
- Officially announced his retirement, June 9, 2008.
- Signed as a free agent by Pardubice (CzRep), April 21, 2009.
- Officially annouced his retirement, October 9, 2012
