#29 Ken Dryden

[@michelfroggy56]

On top of all his accomplishments, Dryden wrote, what is to me, the best sports book ever written. The Game, is an insight into a hockey team, on and off the ice.

[@RobertHoose-sr4qy]

Ken Dryden played 8 years in the NHL and won 6 Stanley Cup titles!! No other goaltender can say that! There were at least 10 Hall of Fame players on each of those teams in the 1970’s not including the GM and Coach Scotty Bowman. From 1950-1980 the Montreal Canadiens won 17 Stanley Cup titles!! No other team will ever match that!! The Montreal Canadiens in 1976-1977 is the greatest team of all time along with Ken Dryden and the other 9 Hall of Fame players that played with them!! Their defense was hands down the best ever!! Larry Robinson, Serge Savard, and Guy Lapointe all Hall of Famers not including the forechecking and back checking of Bob Gainey, Doug Jarvis and Jimmy Roberts!!

[@richardpetroni9690]

Huge Boston Bruins Fan here but I was a HUGE KEN DRYDEN FAN

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

My older brother was a big Bernie Parent fan, and yes Parent was also a superstar goalie, so he would give me the gears about Dryden for not always having to face many shots. Yes, the Habs defence was simply dominant, but that made Dryden's job harder for he had to keep his head in the game. This is not easy to do. Him being such a cerebral goalie made it work.

[@brucemclennan9715]

when you see Ken Dryden anticipate the point blank shots, you realize that its not his size mainly, its his mind- he’s anticipating where the shot is going. Saying its his size isn’t the answer, Cesare Maniago was tall too. And he was always cool in the moment, more than any of his competitors.😊

[@charles6180]

If Ken had played more we would have won more. He retired far too young. I was in my youth when the Habs were winning Cups during the 70s. The '71 playoff series against the heavily favoured Big Bad Bruins and then Black Hawks will never be forgotten.

[@hymansahak181]

Habs won 71 and 79 because of Dryden. His first and last cups.

[@mooch514]

73 too. Habs were an old team. Dryden big factor there that year

[@dustylover100]

79 he also won because Boston got caught with too many men on the ice.

[@DigbyOdel-et3xx]

Ken Dryden, the intellectual goaltender. My top 10 list of best Montreal Canadiens goalies, in order. 1: Ken Dryden. 2: Jaques Plante. 3: Patrick Roy. 4: Bill Durnan. 5: Cary Price. 6: George Vezina. 7: Gump Worsley. 8: Jose Theodor. 9: Bunny Larocque. 10: George Hainsworth. Bleu, Blanc, et Rouge.... Habs forever.😎❤️

[@RobertHoose-sr4qy]

Ken Dryden played 8 years in the NHL and won 6 Stanley Cup titles!! No other goaltender can say that! There were at least 10 Hall of Fame players on each of those teams in the 1970’s not including the GM and Coach Scotty Bowman. From 1950-1980 the Montreal Canadiens won 17 Stanley Cup titles!! 11:36 No other team will ever match that!! The Montreal Canadiens in 1976-1977 is the greatest team of all time along with Ken Dryden and the other 9 Hall of Fame players that played with them!! Their defense was hands down the best ever!! Larry Robinson, Serge Savard, and Guy Lapointe all Hall of Famers not including the forechecking and back checking of Bob Gainey, Doug Jarvis and Jimmy Roberts!! 11:36

[@mashmarttv]

Appreciated😃

[@mooch514]

My all time favorite

[@davidsymonds7730]

Ken Dryden sometimes doesn’t get the respect he deserves because he played on such a great team with Montreal in the seventies. I watched him play all throughout that decade and he was without a doubt the best. If he hadn’t sat out 1973-74 in a contract dispute, the Flyers may never had won a StanleyCup. Montreal dominated the NHL IN 72-73 with 120 points and won the Stanley Cup. Next year without him they fell to 99 points and a first round exit without Dryden. 74-75 when he returned, even though he was rusty for part of the year, the Canadiens rose to 113 points and a tough, hard fought lose in the semifinals to Buffalo in six games. After that, for the next four years Montreal won four Championships in a row. Once Dryden retired Montreal didn’t win again till 1986 when Patrick Roy came along.

[@chevydryden4508]

GOAT

[@RobertHoose-sr4qy]

Ken Dryden played 8 years in the NHL and won 6 Stanley Cup titles!! No other goaltender can say that! There were at least 10 Hall of Fame players on each of those teams in the 1970’s not including the GM and Coach Scotty Bowman. From 1950-1980 the Montreal Canadiens won 17 Stanley Cup titles!! 11:36 No other team will ever match that!! The Montreal Canadiens in 1976-1977 is the greatest team of all time along with Ken Dryden and the other 9 Hall of Fame players that played with them!! Their defense was hands down the best ever!! Larry Robinson, Serge Savard, and Guy Lapointe all Hall of Famers not including the forechecking and back checking of Bob Gainey, Doug Jarvis and Jimmy Roberts!!

[@mik8352]

Best ever !!!

[@jpwjr1199]

Perhaps I am more jaded about pro sports than most, but I wonder sometimes about the timing of Dryden's retirements. The first in 74' seemed to herald in the Flyers "coming of age" and his second appeared to allow the Islanders to take over the league for a while. Honestly, and I grew up an Islanders fan, I do not think either U.S. based team would have had the success that they did had Dryden played straight through with Montreal in the 70's and had continued into the early 80's.

[@lukalavallee4090]

All the team were aging and on the decline...they were very very Lucky To win in 1979...the forum goast had fx%# the Bruins, AGAIN...

[@SparkyBobcat-el8hf]

If they had kept Esposito & split the seasons. ...the Habs would have had at least one season without a loss GUARANTEED. If Lemaire would have stayed on they could have won with Dryden/ Esposito in 80 & possibly 81

[@ferdterguson124]

Much respect for mr Smith to say that

[@ivangodin1850]

Remember meeting Ken Dryden, my sole idol, during the Habs parade in front of City Hall in Montreal in 79. I had just purchased a colorful autograph booklet and kindly asked him for one. To my astonishment, he just wouldn't give me one. I just stood there in awe, a 16 year old, heartbroken

[@Edwardo485]

Cheap guy a young 16 year old boy he was a hockey idol for you ⭐ and he refused to ✏ sign your autograph booklet leaving you with 💔 That memory of Ken Dryden 1979 stanley cup parade Montreal City Hall.

[@jean-francoispayette92]

Master 6 coup 8 years

[@marcelleclair4452]

Unfortunately ... that is 50 years ago, time for a new Stanley Cup run.

[@mooch514]

Under rated goalie. One of the all time best

[@odiecalodie]

Absolutely!!!!!!!

[@CMUBrent]

8 years in the league, Conn Smythe winner, Calder Trophy, 6 Stanley Cups, 5 Vezina Trophies, Hall of Famer...no one with those accolades can be considered "underrated". Underrated is a chronically overused word.

[@mooch514]

@@CMUBrent the thing is that dryden gets all the credit he deserves, but sometimes, people mention that he had great defense...the habs werent winning until dryden got there, habs didnt win in 74 75 when he went to school,, the habs werent winning after he left in 79/80 . So he was a huge piece of that team of the 70s

[@34Packardphaeton]

That save vs. Philly, with his long reach... was impressive.

[@thorneradel4764]

I remember 1971 I’m a Chicago Blackhawks fan amazing what he did against Boston and then he comes in. I think the Hawks were up three games one I could be wrong and I’m a big Blackhawk fan. I should know this I could google it but I won’t Montreal ties up the series, Blackhawks are up to nothing. lemaire takes a long slapshot momentum changes 2-1 and the rest is history dried me to save on Jerry Korab, Bobby Hull hit the post when it was two to nothing the crossbar Dryden great goaltender Tony Esposito great goaltender Hal great goaltender, and the list goes on I know I favored the Blackhawks. No apologies, Ken Dryden, a legend and a pretty good lawyer

[@Mike___Honcho]

if the bruins had never given up their rights to dryden and he ahd played in boston, they would have won every cup from '70 to at least '75, but then again in '78 and '79.

[@jpwjr1199]

@5inthehole um...okay. I think you might be half missing what I am saying (I know the reasons that were given for his retirements and they are valid, in so far as public consumption goes). You have a right to your opinion, though.

[@ferdterguson124]

🐐🐐🐐

[@ferdterguson124]

The goat

[@blacktvlive1887]

The Eurekas was first COLORED HOCKEY LEAGUE Google it

[@SparkyBobcat-el8hf]

Coloured*

[@SparkyBobcat-el8hf]

1st coloured hockey team was Caucasian players. I think your referencing the 1st negro league....but even then I know some were mulatto or partially mixed race.

[@daveyboy_]

He's such a windbag

[@RobertHoose-sr4qy]

Ken Dryden played 8 years in the NHL and won 6 Stanley Cup titles!! No other goaltender can say that! There were at least 10 Hall of Fame players on each of those teams in the 1970’s not including the GM and Coach Scotty Bowman. From 1950-1980 the Montreal Canadiens won 17 Stanley Cup titles!! 11:36 No other team will ever match that!! The Montreal Canadiens in 1976-1977 is the greatest team of all time along with Ken Dryden and the other 9 Hall of Fame players that played with them!! Their defense was hands down the best ever!! Larry Robinson, Serge Savard, and Guy Lapointe all Hall of Famers not including the forechecking and back checking of Bob Gainey, Doug Jarvis and Jimmy Roberts!!

[@RobertHoose-sr4qy]

Ken Dryden played 8 years in the NHL and won 6 Stanley Cup titles!! No other goaltender can say that! There were at least 10 Hall of Fame players on each of those teams in the 1970’s not including the GM and Coach Scotty Bowman. From 1950-1980 the Montreal Canadiens won 17 Stanley Cup titles!! 11:36 No other team will ever match that!! The Montreal Canadiens in 1976-1977 is the greatest team of all time along with Ken Dryden and the other 9 Hall of Fame players that played with them!! Their defense was hands down the best ever!! Larry Robinson, Serge Savard, and Guy Lapointe all Hall of Famers not including the forechecking and back checking of Bob Gainey, Doug Jarvis and Jimmy Roberts!!