Jacques Plante

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Uh, this day in Habs history, the Canadiens in 1995 retired number one by, uh, legend Jacques Plante.

Yes, they had a whole bunch on, uh, Jacques Plante.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, he won 314 games, 58 shutouts during 11 seasons with Montreal.

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Uh, this day in Habs history, Canadiens had two historic nights on October 6th, and both times, how about this? Both times, Jacques Plante got a shutout.

Okay, cool.

Uh, October 6, 1955, Toe Blake made his coaching debut as the Canadiens beat the Leafs 2-0.

Um, shutout, which is great to see, but Artur Shilovs has recorded a shutout in his second consecutive season to open the season for the Pittsburgh Penguins, and that he moves in on a list with some Pittsburgh Penguins great goaltenders to have shutouts to start the season.

As you can see here, Jacques Plante and Glenn Hall had three.

uh shutouts uh each on the opening night for the Pittsburgh Penguins and now she loves is on the list with two which was great to see for him obviously putting his name up there with Jacques plant it is not a easy feat by any means so that that was great to see but he also joined a flower probably the best goaltender in Pittsburgh Penguins history uh to have a multi uh record of multiple season opening shutouts which is great to see so it's only the second Pittsburgh penguin ever to put his name on that list I mean with the history of the Pittsburgh Penguins I mean that's such a a great company to be in as well with Marc Andre Fleury uh probably the best Penguins goaltender of all time in my opinion it might be biased because of the new generation but definitely a great company to be in for Artur Shilovs and definitely, you know, instilling some confidence into this fan base that he can be the number one goalie going forward, which is great to see after, you know, a lot of fans, Penguins fans were calling for Murshov to start this season.

We see Artur Shilovs kind of, you know, say, okay, you know, let me take a chance.

Um, and- Three goalies, like, it, it, it's not uncommon in the history of the game.

You know, Scotty did it when he had Jacques Plante and Glenn Hall.

Mine, it was two veteran goaltenders, and he wanted to, you know, give one of them a rest, so they had a couple of, you know, goaltenders that would, you know, just sit on the bench while the other guy played.

Red Kelly, I was mentioning earlier, in the '70s with the Maple Leafs rotated three.

The answer is seven.

Jacques Plante.

Jacques Plante of the Montreal Canadiens.

That was in the 1950s and 60s.

How do you not know?

I mean, some of the biggies are going to be like those 60s goalies.

So like Jacques Plante for like Habs, Blues.

That's a biggie.

Who? Too well.

So Burroughs had to quickly recast the part and gave it to John Mahoney.

I love my hockey books and read a very good one titled Jacques Plante, The Man Who Changed the Face of Hockey by Todd Deneau.

I've always been fascinated by Jacques Plante because he was a brave innovator.

When I was about nine years old, I got a chance to ask Plant for his autograph.

He was playing in an NHL old-timers game in my hometown, and after the game, I snuck around to the dressing room and waited outside the door.

So Plant had to take it upon himself to handle the puck when it came loose behind the net.

It was a brave move for a goalie, and he would take that skill with him to the NHL and influence goaltenders for all time.

Jacques Plante's hero was Bill Dernan.