Whatever Happened To...Tim Thomas? 

When he retired was he technically the last nordique to retire because he was drafted by the Quebec Nordiques

I remember him one time wearing glasses under his helmet during a game. He won that one. He was a unique goalie.

Tim Thomas will always be my favourite goalie of all time. My dad took me to my first NHL game in 2007 between the Bruins and Leafs (which also happened to be Tuukka Rask's NHL debut). We went down to the first row for the warm ups as we were seated behind the Bruins end. I was the lone Bruin fan among a sea of blue Leafs jerseys. Tim Thomas noticed me while he stretched in the corner and smiled before flipping a puck over the glass straight to me. On top of the excitement of it being my first game, I got to experience a once in a lifetime moment with one of my idols. I will always be grateful for him.

Thomas resurfaced in June 2019 when the Bruins made the cup final. He has social anxiety and maybe some traumatic brain injury from a lifetime of contact sports. He lives in Sandpoint, Idaho. Boston still loves him.

Thomas always has a weird spot in my heart because he posted the best playoffs goaltending performance ever against us and then basically did nothing after that. It’s quite frustrating for a Canucks fan.

Being 44 happened...

I’m a canucks fan and Timmy T single handedly destroyed our chances in 2011

Thomas also set the single season shutout record while playing for Jokerit with 15 shutouts. In 54 games.

Legend.....I never thought I’d see my bruins raise the cup in my lifetime- he was a huge part

I’m sorry but Boston did not miss the playoffs in 09-10... Tough to say as a Bruins fan but that’s when Boston’s debacle happened against the Flyers so....

It was so hard to score on him on NHL11 I think

Thomas was great goalie and an American Patriot, one of my all-time favorite bruins goalies I appreciate his contribution to hockey. God bless Tim and his family and thanks for this video.

honestly this guy is a LEGEND and im a leafs fan and i can admit to it.

Here's why you should do more research than just looking up Thomas's numbers. Not only did the Bruins make the playoffs in 09-10, but they made it to the 2nd round and lost in epic fashion to the Flyers. Thomas lost his job to Tuukka Rask that year, hence there being no numbers in his playoff statistics that year and making it appear that they missed out on the postseason

Fun fact, Oulun Karpat had 3 future NHL goalthenders in their roster during two season spawn, since they had Tim Thomas 2001-02 season and Niklas Backstrom on 2002-03 season. And during both seasons young Pekka Rinne played as backup or for junior team.

Boston made the playoffs in 09-10 and lost in 7 games to philly but Thomas didn’t play

As a Bruins fan this was an awesome vid great too see Timmy again love this guy HUGE reason for our cup win!

Can you do Nick Backstrom (the goalie)

Big flyers fan here. After beating the Bruins in 2010 4-3 in the playoffs being down 3-0. After that big comeback. Then ironically the next year facing the bruins again with Thomas in net and destroying us 4-0. I always respected his talents.

I have been wanting this video from someone for so looong, thanks :D

I’m gonna count how many times he says “the best league in the world” and will report back

Seeing tim thomas play his best was one of the most amazing things i have ever seen, he was unreal when he was on his game

im here because im a Canucks fan and it still stings.

He was briefly teammates in Florida with Roberto Luongo, who he completely outplayed in the 2011 Cup Finals.

Just stumbled upon you. Great content man I’m excited to watch the rest of this series!

Tim Thomas is my favorite player of all time

This video is actually really well made and gotta say that good work keep it up!

What happened to Dan Blackburn? Last I remember he was trying to play while using two blockers.

You do a great job on these.. you should have way more subs.. keep doing your thing man!

Tim Thomas will always hold a special place in my heart. Watching the Bruins in 2011 win the cup and Thomas’s amazing performance in the Finals made me want to play hockey in the goalie position. Shortly after they won the cup I got his jersey for my birthday and I also got a McFarlane figure of him. I don’t even know if I would be playing hockey as a goalie or hockey at all right now if it wasn’t for Tim Thomas. My number was originally going to be 30 but I switched it to 40 because he left just a few months before I picked my jersey number. I am starting high school next school year and I hope to wear the number 30 in high school. I remember playing NHL 09 as Thomas and how bad I wanted to go to a Bruins game and have seats right behind the net so I could sit as close as possible to him. (I never managed go to a game he played in) Someday I hope to meet Tim Thomas, although I don’t know where he is I hope to bump into him someday, somewhere.

I feel like RU-vid might be sharing this video to all Canucks fans, as I'm one as well hahaha painful memories. I found your channel yesterday and binged a bunch of your Whatever Happened To videos! They are great! Thanks. Here's a goalie that can be an interesting subject matter: Pascal LeClaire. Remember him? I cheered for him through his injury-prone career. Love to hear your take on his hockey story.

Huge amounts of info packed in a senseful box. Very good.

Great goalie! Exciting and his passion to excel allowed him to play at an age most would have been long retired. 👍🏼

I'm amazed at the huge amount of different styles of helmets and masks this guy wore throughout his career. He seemed to have a different kind of mask or cage combination for each new season. I also remember when he played for my favorite team in Sweden (AIK). I kinda followed his career after that.

This series is amazing, seeing players from a good while ago, so much nostalgia

GradeAUnderA is doing hockey videos now?

i love this videos. keep it up man.

His style of play was pretty “outdated” when he won the 2011 cup, you see him flopping around and a ton of movement which was going out of style at the time. He was absolutely incredible, one of my favorite goalies ever

Tim Thomas was my arch enemy as a 6 year old when he beat the canucks in the cup final

One of the true underrated players of the NHL

I absolutely love this series

Not a bruins fan, but thomas is an absolute legend!

Nice vid, your channel is blowing up!!!

I feel this video needs to be remade given his recent statements.

Just like that, another great video!

He recently re appeared in Boston and did interviews about his dealing with the aftermath of numerous concussions he's suffered as a player.

He always had the oddest and most unique helmet/cage designs and shapes. I wonder if it was a comfort thing or what.

Amazing video man. New Sub

Really enjoyed this video! Tim Thomas was such a unique goalie. I do think you skimmed over the controversy with the White House quickly. The guy was getting slammed by everyone for that move and even had ESPN, Sports illustrated, and Bleacher Report talking about how he was selfish and should apologize. Times have really changed.

the bruins did make the playoffs in 09-10. They were reverse swept by the Flyers in the 2nd round

The Bruins made the playoffs in 2010 but Rask the the starter

One thing I've noticed with his stats are that his save percentage is always really good even if he was losing games.

Great documentary video!! Good editing; I learned how/why Boston went from Top Flight GT Tim Thomas to Top Flight GT Tuuka Rask in just a few years. Wherever they got Rask from--Finnish League, KHL, their own AHL affiliate; he WAS READY RIGHT AWAY when he was called up and now as I write in spring 2019 Boston is poised for another DEEP Playoff run with Tuuka now as their Netmminder. Tim Thomas got the CAREER TEAM AWARD--The Stanley Cup--that EVERY NHL Player wants, regardless of position or role, and will always have that Ring on his hand and HIS NAME on onea the body rings of the 35 lb. Sterling Silver Travelling Trophy that ALL Great Hockey Players aspire to win. Great Career.

I was gonna ask, what he is actually doing right now? And here you are! My word!

Tim Thomas... my all time favorite goalie!

what a guy, gives hope to players still grinding in the minors or Europe in their late 20s that they can still make it to the big league

We B's fan's still put this man on a pedestal.. We love you Timmy!!!!

I used to go to his goalie camp in Colorado but he stopped the camp because he moved away to Idaho or utah, I forgot which one

Great vids u earned a sub

The Bruins made the playoffs in the 09-10 season but were eliminated in the second round by the Flyers.

The Bruins didn't miss the playoffs in 2009-2010, they lost to Philly after leading the series 3-0.

I thought I heard something about him building a bunker because he thought the world would end.

Wait, Thomas played in Finland for that much and that long ago? I only remember him during the lockout. Tbf, I was 4 when he seems to have played in HIFK the first time but somehow I thought he played in NHL for longer. Anyhow, nice vids and channel in general, really informative and no unnecessary bs. Suggesting Ville Leino for the next of these. Or Vesa Toskala if you want some laughs.

Tim Thomas reignited my love of hockey. It felt like watching Miikka Kirprusoff in 2004 but the Bruins had got it done and it felt so good.

Thomas is the sole reason. Bruins win that Stanley cup. No Thomas =. No cup

Matt D'Agostini, Jhonas Enroth or Niklas Backstrom (the Goalie)

Looking forward to Whatever happened THREE! Also would like to see Eric Lindros who was my favorite player when I was a kid :)

One of my favourite goalies with Hasek.

Tim also still has the record of most shutouts (15) on season in Finnish Liiga :)

Can you do one or all of Pavel Brendl, Alexander Selivanov (might have spelled that wrong the guy on Tampa Bay who played in the mid to late 90's) and Vitali Yachmenev?

At first I was annoyed, but after like 5 videos... I fucking love this dudes voice

The year before they won the cup, the bruins actually did make the playoffs with rookie Tuukka Rask in the net. Was the year they got booted in the second round by philly despite being up 3 games to none

His 15 shutouts in 2004-05 is still Liiga's record for most shutouts in a regular season.

Not even kidding I played for a team he made and I got to meet him at a dry land practice. This wasn’t a popular team either. It was called the Green Mountain Falls Catamounts but they renamed it the Pikes Peak Catamounts

would be helpful if you provided some averages per year. hard to tell whats good if you dont know what the standard is

Tim was considered the best goalie in the world at the height of his success. Unfortunately, he made some strange moves after that cup win. But he was getting older anyway. I never really liked him particularly, but he was phenomenal in that cup run and Boston will always have love for him since he was truly the MVP of that playoff series

In 2009-10, the Bruins actually did make the playoffs, but decided to play tuukka task in the playoffs, likely due to Thomas’ step back statistically. For reference, this was when they were reverse swept by the flyers in the second round. Just a minor fact check, great vid

Just a added note. In the 1997-98 season with HIFK. They did a have a somewhat stacked roster but Thomas still won the award for the best goalie in SM-Liiga. Also he played in each game in the 98 playoffs when HIFK won all 3 series 3-0 with 1.52 GAA in those 9 games (each series being best of 5). Next year they went to the finals, Thomas played all 11 games with 2.28 GAA but they lost to TPS who went on to win 3 championships in a row. Pointing those two out since you only had the regular season stats

Remember him in Dallas. Sick pads

Now, he's in Vermont, living there and doing charity work. Been a long time since we've seen him

To be honest, without watching any of this video... I will say that Timmy the Tank was late to the show. Poor guy never gave up and spent a lifetime trying to get into the NHL. Eventually he made it and won the best trophy there is... That itself, is a movie waiting to happen. Tim is special. Even though I hate the Bruins, I respect Timmy!!!

Those Vancouver v Boston game 7 pic hit my heart as a Canucks fan😢😵

What ever happened to Tuomo Ruutu

More a "history of" than a "what happened to". Enjoyed none the less

I miss him so much he was so fucking awesome

I had forgotten about him until this video

love how within the first 1 second u are yelling in my ears thank u

if you get time one day, do you think you could do Ales hemsky ?

Thank you Tim for your support in game where USA 5-6 loss against team Latvia in IIHF WC 2014

Wow, thanks for 18 minutes of Tim Thomas ' wikipedia page

Legend says he got lost in his own moustache and was never seen again

Good video❤️

Players for future whatever happened to episodes? Please. Love this series: -Valeri Bure -Jhonas Enroth -Brent Gretzky -Marcel Hossa -Joel Lundqvist -Dominic Moore

'Falling by the waste/waist side'? LOL. Oh, and Long Island isn't the Big Apple.

"Whatever happened to him?" He got old and retired after winning Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe, and multiple Vezinas.

I know this is a few years old now, but the Bruins did make the playoffs in 09-10. Lost in 7 to the Flyers in the Conference semi final. Tuukka Rask was the starter at that point because of Thomas' drop in production.

1:09 That picture is GOLD

Doesn’t matter what happened to him , still a hall of famer 4x All Star 2x Vezina 2011 Cup Winner & Conn Smythe 2009 Jennings

As a Vermonter he was part of the three duos of that team..being Thomas, Perrin, and the great Stlouis......they were great to watch in college and in the nhl.....although Perrin didnt really shine in the nhl.....

Love Timmy, my favorite goalie all time. I played net and played the exact same style as Thomas. We weren't butterfly goalies and we werent cute. But we stopped the fuckin puck. As a die hard bruins fan I have never liked Tuuka Rask. It's no surprise that the one year we won the cup was done so the one year Tim Thomas replaced Rask as the starter. We've gone to the finals twice since and Rask just isnt a post season goalie . Last year he almost entirely wiped that out and wrote his own history story just like Thomas . One of the best goaltending performances I have ever seen all throughout the playoffs. Unfortunately, it all caught up to him in game 7 of the cup finals and Rask looked like the old post season collapsing Rask. It was gut wrenching. I have always despised Rask. Always rooting for his backup. We have had two great backups between Khoudobin and Halak. I personally wish both had started over Rask and both would have done just as well if not better. Also we didnt not make the playoffs in 2010. We did and we were up 3 games in the flyers in the 2nd round and we completely folded in om ourselves and collapsed. Philly won the next 7 straight.