The Career of Tim Thomas 

No hes a nutjob republican that couldnt tell the difference between the responsibility of the local government from the responsibilities of the federal government. The dude will never be heard from again, and thank god for that

Jack, all charges were dropped against all officials in the city, total nutjob

Yeah, no he isn't, he's from davison michigan Bout 10 miles east, much nicer

@@jackmakackov7077 let's not bring politics into hockey comments, some people need a break from thatcrao

@@jackmakackov7077 says the nutjob liberal

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He hates Luongo so much lol

American born goalies. Richter, Thomas, Quick

You need to explain that a little in detail

@@iron60bitch62 I'll let Luongo explain it for me: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jc9OOnDBCTo.html

He chose correctly, Obummer is a scammer and non American crook. I still can’t believe I fell for his ”change”-bs.

Joe O's Channel I wouldn’t want to meet Osama and his husband either.

Yeah like dino ciccarelli

He has 2 vezinas

travis H Hasn’t Claude Giroux always been a solid goaltender??😂😂😂

I'm watching this in 2023 and cannot for the life of me figure out what he meant by the Giroux winning the Vezina in 2006?

Cheevers & Johson was the best. Followed by Cheevers & Gilbert.

I think rask and doby had a brilliant tandem . Unfortunately rask sux in the playoffs!

@@goalie2998 Rask was mediocre against the Leafs! He was fantastic against the Bolts! The B's couldn't get 2ndary scoring was the issue. Rask out played Vasileski the scoring chances were lopsided that whole series. Rask was the only reason it stayed close.

goalie2998 pp

Cheevers Johnson definitely takes the top since the game has changed. Thomas/Raask was obviously tough to beat

He also won championship with Hifk in 1998. That team was absolutely stacked tho, but still. His back-up that season was a kid called Niklas Bäckström

He also played for my favorite team in Sweden, AIK, in 2000-2001. Probably the best player on the team that season and got them into the playoffs. Ironically Niklas Bäckström was the one who replaced him in net the year after (and AIK got relegated from the swedish elite league).

You could say Horton did the same thing after the cup.

Bäckström didn't reach his full potential until 04 when he was the best goalie in finnish league But after that, he was a world class guy for the next decade

Tim Thomas was clearly the beast goalie in Liiga during the lockout. Bäckström (Kärpät), Vokoun (HIFK) and Roloson (Lukko) played great too. Noronen (HPK) wasn't bad either. Raycroft lost starter job to Mika Lehto in Tappara. Nurminen (Pelicans) played well but his season (and career) ended early to bad injury. Toskala (Ilves) was 7th lockout goalie in the Liiga. But he only played 3 games.

Brian Snider I believe so... it wasn’t quite an Osgood mask, but not fair off

Irbe pulled it off well too

Its a hybred. Mage pro i believe is the model.

Arturs Irbe had the best model, Jofa players helmet and that cage 👍

What was that thing Mike Smith wore last year, it was close

He's my favourite player of all time, love Roli

Juubi Maru such a shame he went down after game 1 in '06.

Roli the Goalie!

what season... if I may ask?

​@@citieslostchildMaybe you should search a bit? Thomas development happened in Finland/Sweden. His last two seasons in Finland were really good. You knew he would play good in NHL.

I'm not understanding the Giroux jokes. He called him a defenseman in an earlier video

I did a video where I listed him as one of the best centers in the NHL. I was called out for him being a winger, so I now play it that he plays all positions. He does still play center, not like before, but he took 13 faceoffs per game last season.

Oh yeah I remember that video, I didn't think much of it. I made my list of top centers before watching your video and he was on mine as well. If a guy has played center and can play it well, he's a center in my mind, even if he starts playing on the wing a lot

Yes, it was

Giroux wears a lot of hats for the Flyers, but we'll have to see how he does after choosing Joel Farabee 14th overall in this year's draft.

Fun goalie to watch. Not talented like Hasek, but did make some unconventional saves.

If he was your childhood hero, you must be about 15 now.... Lol

Hes my uncle

Mr. Robert Dobalina mistadobalina mistabobdobalina

Carter Hart: Our Lord and Savior! I hope...

Jonathan Zygmunt it’s more just regular Democrats than liberals. So people weren’t that pissed from what I remember. They were still a little mad though.

Im not sure you retire a guy with 5 seasons on a team. Even if he won the cup 1 of those years. And yeah Boston is covered with idiotic liberals.

goalie2998 he was entering his 40s so it’s not like he was some young kid. The bruins did the right thing and gave a young Tuukka Rask the starting job. And Boston isn’t just filled with soft liberals like the media says. Watch a fight at a bruins game and look at the crowd it goes insane

@@mattrick6493 i live here. Its mostly liberals. Some soft, some just hardcore union guys, all liberals

Mattrick 64 I.e., regular communists, not liberals.

@Benjamin Sopkin right? It's a hell of an accomplishment to win even one cup, nevermind 3 cups in ONE SEASON. Miraculous player

or Hasek

And Sedin reacted like a sniper in the crowd shot him.

I loved that play, but let's be honest that shit was interference LOL

He was old and rask is better

He IS Finnished by Rask ! Still remembered in Finland & HIFK & Kärpät & Jokerit

Yeah Osgood was never that good, he got the rings despite being an average goalie because the team around him was superb

@@pale_saint I guess Tim Thomas just isn't connected to the GREAT SCOTTIE BOWMAN well enough (?)

Life in the 413 and that's saying something

He was born at Flint Mich !

Rambe - he’s certainly able to

Na no one can come close to comparing tim

Tim Thomas, aka the Tasmanian devil, was the difference between ANY team and the Bruins during that era! Everyone thinks our current team stinks and will never get to the playoffs - well technically the 2011 team wasn't that great.. except for that one guy. During that one season, in that one place and during that one moment in time! Really wasn't a matter of whether the Bruins were going to win, Tim Thomas was not letting them lose! As nice as he is? if you go back to see Linus Ullmark's early highlights? I saw a little bit of Tim Thomas coming out of him when he was young, Sabres fans turned me on to it when he was traded, some of them were NOT happy cuz they said he was just about to break out and hit his stride.. - I'd like to see him get a great big chip on his shoulder and stop hugging people!

With that roster HIFK could’ve played in NHL

@@pale_saint Brian Rafalski was my favorite player of that team and he went to New Jersey Devils to win the Stanley Cup.

I think what we're not saying is that he was head injured... he had to take that year off. And then he never fully recovered to continue playing. If you look for more recent interviews he'll tell you himself what went on. Lot of hockey players can thank him for bringing attention to the concussion issue.

@@TheFoolintherainn oh I didn't know thanks.

@@gavinknight8571 I didn't know either until I tripped across it.. and I didn't realize that it wasn't common knowledge until this past year. now we know the NHL was trying to keep him quiet. They've been trying to keep a leash on Tim Thomas for a long time! I have to confess, I'd probably be considered an ole fart haha! I remember seeing an interview on Gerry cheevers years after his career - telling us how he beat his wife, went thru hell, finally went to counseling and got his life together.. he had massive Head injuries ( remember he didn't wear a helmet back in his day.) And then somehow I caught it trickling out about Tim Thomas, and then I looked into it. It did not make headlines. It's funny of all the sports - how football came into the spotlight on that one, but no other sport brought it to the forefront ... it makes sense the way they line up helmet to helmet in American football. Yet they knew to put helmets on hockey players by the '80s..? So obviously they knew something was going on. I've watched hockey equipment go from nothing to high technology protective wear in a matter of 40-50 years. I suited up a goalie for years - we went through the 12 to 11 1/2 pad change, new throat guard standards every year for a decade. I remember well cuz it was expensive! But you went along with it cuz you wanted to protect your kid.. especially a goalie! So if they were upping their requirements every year or two on the standards of protective equipment - obviously they knew something! I don't blame you for not knowing.. I think they were trying to keep it under wraps. And you didn't hear about it until years after the 2011 Stanley Cup win. Tim Thomas was old news, no coach wanted to deal with him. But especially, the NHL did not want his lawsuit like the NFL went through Remember - sports now serves lawyer's liars leeches - not the athletes nor the fans. We exist so lawyers can make money, airlines can sell tickets and hotels can make profit. 🙄 So Tim's story just sort of faded off into the media horizon. Swept under the rug by a bunch of NHL lawyers. All you have to do is look at the evolution of hockey equipment, and you know darn well they knew all along! I'm hoping Rask is just about as crazy as a head injured guy... Because obviously that's what takes us to Stanley Cup wins! Enjoy the playoffs!

They we're never on the roster at the same time.