Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Room for Osgood in the Record book

The NHL created an alternate site for the playoffs and on that site, you can find Both playoff and final series records and in different categories.

One record that could be with in his reach, is one that his teammate Hasek established the last time the Red Wings win the cup. In 2002, Dominik Hasek had gone 166 mins and 3 seconds without letting a goal in against the Carolina Hurricanes, which was 22 mins and 32 seconds shy of Frank McCool’s record. Except McCool had established his record from game 1 in the 1945 cup Final against Detroit. With an another goaless performance by Osgood in game three, he would be only 8 mins and 36 seconds from re-writting Mr.McCool’s record, that has held up for the last 43 years now.

Osgood also could tie a record if he goes unscored on in game three. The most shoutouts in a final series. Martin Brodeur was the last to do it in 2003 against Mike Babcock’s Anaheim team.

If he let’s in less than 3 goals in this series, he would tie Terry Sawchuck for the fewest goals in one series.