Besides the 13,308 games error, there was one other. Steve said Hecht got some Selke votes because he played in front of Hasek who never let anyone score. Well  since Hecht was part of the trade that sent Hasek to Detroit, that wasn’t why he got Selke votes.

I played goalie as a kid, and was taught traditional style with butterfly.  I watched Hasek and kept losing my mind screaming, "You can't do that!"  "What is he doing?" "How did he?  What?  OMG,"  He quickly became my favourite goalie.

Just a quick note, Hasek actually won two cups with Detroit. 2002 against Carolina and 2008 against Pittsburgh, though Chris Osgood started most of the playoffs.
Also calling Slava Kozlov Vyecheslav makes me uncomfortable as a Red Wings fan.
Edit: Hasek was in his second stint with Detroit in 08, so that makes a bit more sense for the video.

I went to an event that included a Q&A with Teemu Selanne and someone asked him who the toughest goalie to play against was. His answer: Hasek, because "he had no style." With other goalies, you could at least make an educated guess as to what they might do in a certain situation because their style dictated certain tendencies. With Hasek, you had no idea if he was going to stack the pads, poke check you, stay on his feet, or flop like he got shot, and no matter what he did he almost always stopped the puck.

With the game being so immensely skilled, highly-optimized, and meticulously calculated like it is now, I think it's safe to say we'll never see anyone like Hasek again. Truly a special player.

Thanks for the love for Eric Daze, a often forgotten great from a mediocre Chicago team.

Could you do the 1998 Vincent Lecavalier trade where the lightning and sharks swapped firsts and the lightning gave up Bryan Marchment and David Shaw. This trade has some huge names later in it even though some of the pieces straight from the tree werent the big names in the trades. Just thought it would be a cool idea as it eventually branches into the Erik Karlsson trade and the Joe Thornton trade. Just thought it might be a fun idea

As some people have some people have probably said in this comment section. Dominik Hasek is the best goalie of all-time simply because no goaltender ever had a stint of dominance like he did. From 1994-2002 6 Vezina Trophies 2 Hart Trophies 2 Lester B. Pearson Awards and a Stanley Cup. Otherworldly dominance.

Edit: Oh yeah, he also won the William Jennings Award twice, 1994 and 2001.

And don’t forget that Olympic Gold he won in Nagano in 1998 with the Czech Republic.

And I ain’t even out of High School or live in Buffalo, and I know this

A bit of irony, the goalie that Hasek and the Sabres lost too in the finals? Ed Belfour with Dallas.

Eric Daze is literally Tage Thompson

It still boggles my mind that a 40 year old Chris Chelios on that 2002 Detroit Team Played 79 regular season games averaging 25:18 in ice time a game, contributing 39 pts as a Defenseman, and all 23 playoff games averaging over 26 minutes a game popping another 14 pts while being very defensively sound and always in position. While also leading his team in +/- both in the regular season, and Playoffs. At 40..Guys dedication to fitness and adapting his game kept him around and playing elite hockey for so long.

There's another part of Hasek's rise that's interesting to me, because there were two other teams beyond just the Blackhawks who passed on the chance to have him: the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Florida Panthers.

At the 92-93 trade deadline, ahead of the 1993 Expansion Draft, the Sabres traded Darren Puppa to Toronto (along with a 1st and Sabres legend Dave Andreychuk!) so that when the Expansion Draft came around, they could keep Grant Fuhr protected. The summer before he caught fire, the Sabres left Dominik Hasek exposed in the Expansion Draft, but neither the Panthers or Ducks took him. (Incidentally, Darren Puppa would get claimed by the Panthers, who then likewise left him exposed in the 2nd part of the draft, where the Tampa Bay Lightning selected him.) Granted, with the looser expansion draft rules of '93 both Anaheim and Florida did fine in the goaltending department, getting Guy Hebert and John Vanbiesbrouck respectively, but imagine what they could have done with The Dominator in goal.

Holy Jesus some of those saves highlighted in the video are just amazing……some of the best saves ever.  

As a kid, watching these Sabres games and seeing these saves…….just insane

I was a Hasek super fan growing up he was so amazing to watch, you never knew what he was gonna do except save the damn puck. :D I was as all Buffalo fans totally heartbroken when Mr Hull "scored" that goal. But most of all i just felt so damn sad for Hasek, cause he carried Sabres on his back for so long and was soo close to futher prove that 1 man can do it all.
I was super excited and happy when he got to Detroit, and yea 2002 Red wings as you said might be the best team ever.
Thanks for a great video keep it up <3

Fun side note to the trade: Christian Ruuttu played for the Sabres for many years & was originally traded from Buffalo to Winnipeg in the Beauregard trade. He was then traded to Chicago for Beauregard.

Hawks had an inkling of who this guy was. When he took over for Belfour in the Final, he was amazing. Although most would have made the same deal, today teams would have kept them both until one simply became too expensive.

Really downplayed the fact that he won olympic gold in 98.
Czech had two players. Jagr and Hasek. 2 good ones.
But they beat out a Canada team with, 99, Lindros, Sakic, fluerry, Yzermen, Roy, etc, etc,
Hasek stole that gold medal for a team that had no business being the best in the world.
amazing.

I think the Saad/Panarin trade(s) tree would an awesome video. We all know how much Steve loves talking about Brandon Saad in trade trees

Man Hecht was such a big part of the conference final run teams in 06-07!

Great video….of course I’m a tad biased being from Buffalo and a life long die hard Sabres fan since day 1 in 1970.  However, I love the job you do on all these trade trees your sense of humor is hysterical and after enjoying many of these that had nothing to do with the Sabres in the main players traded, I actually suggested you do this exact tree recently in the comments of the last one I watched….and you have.  THANK YOU!  Watching Hasek play just about every game with the Sabres was amazing.

I have always had a hard time feeling bad for the Hawks on this deal... the one position that having 2 really good ones is bad... is Goalie.. and hindsight now says they had 2 HOF goalies early in their careers on the same team... but you can't use both at the same time.. so they moved Dom for Daze, who they could use with Belfour in the net... So though they may have chosen the wrong one... they still had a damn good one in a HOF'er too.. (of course, Belfour was moved and was on that Stars team that beat Hasek in the finals, but that's their fault)