Eddie giacomin biography

Edward Giacomin (born June 6, 1939 in Sudbury, Ontario) was a Canadianprofessionalice hockeygoaltender who played for the New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League, as well as for the Providence Reds of the American Hockey League. Giacomin's sweater number, #1, was the second one retired by the Rangers, after Rod Gilbert.

Early life

Giacomin grew up in Gatchell, a small town near Sudbury. When Giacomin was a teenager, a kitchen stoveexploded and heavily burned him. The doctors advised him to stop hoping to play hockey professionally.

Achievements and facts

• Added to the NHL First All-Star Team in 1967 and 1971.
• Added to the NHL Second All-Star Team in 1968, 1969 and 1970.
• Played in the All-Star Game in 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1973.
• 25th in career wins by a goaltender with 289.
• 19th in career shutouts with 54.

References

• Eddie, A Goalie's Story by Hugh Delano

Other websites

What’s up everyone and welcome to another blog here on BlueCollarBlueShirts.com. Off puck drop, I’d like to thank everyone for all the emails/feedback for my last blog, the New York Rangers 2018-2019 season preview. It took some time to put that together, so I’m glad you guys enjoyed it.

As the Traverse City tournament nears a close and with Week 1 of the NFL nearly in the books, we are creeping & inching closer to the start of the 2018-2019 NHL season. Next week’s blog will be my annual NHL season preview, with profiles of all 31 teams, plus all my predictions & thoughts on each team. Keep an eye out for that blog.

All summer long, I have done book review and “Delorean” blogs. You can find all of those blogs in the archives, which are located on the right hand of the site or by checking out the tabs on the menu. For the most part, most of the books I reviewed this summer covered the Emile Francis Era of Rangers. Whether it was Marv Albert, Gilles Villemure, Brad Park, Gump Worsley and in this case Eddie Giacomin, all of these books dealt with the Emile Francis Rangers. In addition, with the exception of the Worsley book, all of these books dealt with the height, and the eventual crash, of the Francis Era.

For new readers, just to put it all out on the table, I’m 36 years old. In other words, for the sake of this blog, I was born four years after Giacomin retired. I don’t have any personal memories of Giacomin’s playing days. When it comes to Eddie Giacomin, I’ve seen full games and highlights of his career, but it’s not like I grew up with him, nor saw him play on a day-to-day basis.

Recently in my “Richter vs Lundqvist” blog, which you will find linked below, I talked about the history of Ranger goaltenders. While we know that the Rangers history isn’t the most impressive, with only four Stanley Cup wins in 91+ seasons, for the most part, the Rangers have had tons

Edward “Ed” Giacomin (born June 6, 1939) is a retired professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League, as well as for the Providence Reds of the American Hockey League.

Eddie Giacomin Statistics

Deeper Dive

Achievements

• Jersey (#1) was retired by the Rangers in 1989
• Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1987
• 6x NHL All-Star Game (1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973)
• 2x NHL First All-Star Team (1967, 1971)
• 3x NHL Second All-Star Team (1968, 1969, 1970)
• Vezina Trophy (1971)

Sources

Eddie Giacomin Biography

Eddie Giacomin is a 1987 inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame after a 19 year playing career in the NHL and AHL. Starting his career when there only 6 goaltending jobs in the NHL, Giacomin started his professional career playing for the Providence Reds of the AHL. After a successful career with the Reds, the New York Rangers traded for Giacomin in 1965 and he came in right away as the starting goaltender for the Rangers. After losing the job in his second season, Giacomin responded with a turnaround of play that led to him regaining the starting role and then holding that spot for 9 seasons. In that tenure, he led the NHL in shutouts three seasons (’68, ’69, ’71) and won the Vezina Trophy in 1971 for the NHL’s top goaltender. After losing his job due to injuries, Giacomin signed with the Detroit Red Wings for three seasons before retiring in 1978 with a career record of 289-208-97. Giacomin ended his Hall of Fame career ranked 19th in career shutouts (54) and 25th in career wins (289). 

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