"No wonder Gretzky scored all those goals, have you SEEN the goaltending in the 80s??"
I guarantee you have either said or heard that phrase more than once in your life. There's a belief in the online hockey community that no goalie from the 80s or 90s, other than Dominik Hasek or Patrick Roy, could survive in the modern NHL, and that all of them were terrible stand-up goalies who shouldn't have gotten higher than Junior B.

So I decided to look up some stats and find out when Goaltenders in the National Hockey League actually got good at the thing they're supposed to be good at: Stopping the Puck.

Goalies included in this video are: Dominik Hasek, Martin Brodeur, Curtis Joseph, Patrick Roy, Ron Hextall, Kirk McLean, Billy Smith, and many more