Played on 4 Stanley Cup Teams

Winner of 3 Vezina Trophys

(Outstanding Goaltender)

Winner of the Calder Memorial Trophy

(Top Rookie)

Selected to 8 All-Star Teams

(Member of The Hockey Hall of Fame)

While playing centre on a bantam hockey team in Winnipeg, Terry Sawchuk was put in goal because he had goalie pads at home which belonged to his older brother. When he played well that game, he decided to continue, and the rest is history.
Terry was the first player to win the Rookie of the Year Award in three leagues, which included the U.S. Hockey League, the American Hockey League and the N.H.L.
Sawchuk won the Vezina trophy three times, sharing the last one with Johnny Bower during 1964-65 season with the Leafs.
In the 1952 play-offs Terry Sawchuk lead Detroit to the Stanley Cup in eight straight games while posting four shutouts and allowing only five goals in defeating both Toronto and Montreal. He blanked Montreal during the 3rd and 4th games of the final series.
Sawchuk was voted the Leafs most valuable player during the 1967 season shortly after he had been drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in the 1967 expansion draft.
Sawchuk was selected the Rookie of the Year for the 1950-51 season in which he appeared in all seventy games for Detroit. He had a league leading eleven shutouts and a goals against average of 1.99, but missed out in the race for the Vezina Trophy.
Terry Sawchuk appeared in 971 regular season games, playing 57,114 minutes. He had 2401 goals against and 103 shutouts, the most of any goaltender, and a goals against average of 2.52. This included 447 wins, 330 losses and 173 ties.
He appeared in 106 play-off games, playing 6,311 minutes. He had 267 goals against and 12 shutouts, and a goals against average of 2.54. This included 54 wins and 48 losses and no ties.

"The greatest goaltender in hockey" according to Emile Francis, died in May of 1970 of internal injuries in an off-ice accident.