I hate myself because it’s a hockey post again

I hate myself because it’s a hockey post again. Well Fuck off, I am serious.

Why isn’t Andy Moog in the Hockey Hall of Fame?

The day Moog retired he was 7th overall in goalie wins for a career with 372.

As a point of reference, if a goalie wins 300 games, they are basically in the Hall of Fame, it’s like 500 goals for a forward.

Amongst goalies with 500 or more games played NOBODY has a higher win percentage at .622.

The day he retired, Moog and Patrick Roy had essentially identical statistics with regard to games played and wins.

Roy 380 wins and 717 games played.
Moog 372 wins and 713 games played.

HOWEVER, for Roy’s extra 4 games and 8 extra wins he had 15 more losses. Roy played the majority of his career up until Moog’s retirement for the defensive minded Montreal Canadiens and the powerful Colorado Avalanche. Moog only played 5 full seasons with the Oilers, so don’t say he got gifted wins and after the Bruins he played for a terrible Dallas Stars team as well as a terrible Montreal Canadiens team. Roy played for one bad team in his entire career and he walked off the ice during a game and demanded a trade. What a team guy.

Moog could have won more games, but he retired because he was going to be left unprotected in the expansion draft and he was sure to be picked up and had no interest in moving his family again.

Not to bore you further with his career, but the guy won three Stanley Cups, played for 6 finalists, won the Jennings trophy, played in 4 all-star games, only lost 209 games in over 700 played. In the Fuhr era Edmonton Oilers when people called Moog the backup, he averaged 47 games a season. He played for the Canadian Olympic team and was in nets for an 8-0 shut out of Poland, the seemingly forgotten last Canadian Olympic shut out.

As an aside, As a rookie he was robbed of the Vezina by Pete Peters because Peters had so many shut outs, and for some reason Rollie Melanson was the runner up, I am guessing it was due to his goals against because nothing else was very spectacular considering he was playing for the Islanders, 3 time defending Stanley Cup champions. He wasn’t even mentioned for the Calder. I bring this up because a year later Tom Barrasso would win both awards with FAR inferior numbers

1982-83
Peters 62 GPs, 40 wins, 11 losses, 9 ties, 8 shut outs, 2.36 goals against
Melanson44 GPs, 24 wins, 12 losses, 5 ties, 1 shut out, 2.66 goals against
Moog 50 GPs, 33 wins, 8 loses, 7 ties, 1 shut out, 3.45 goals against
1983-84
Barrasso 42 GPs, 26 wins, 12 losses, 3 ties, 2 shut outs, 2.84 goals against

As for value to his team. Like I said as a “Back up” with the Oilers he played more games than Fuhr and the Boston Bruins have not had a stable goaltending situation since he was traded. Jon Casey, John Blue, Steve Sheilds, Byron Dafoe, Rob Tallas, Jim Carey, Bill Ranford, Craig Billington, Blaine Lacher, Vincent Riendeau, Felix Potvin, Andrew Raycroft, John Grahame, Tim Thomas, Jeff Hackett, Tim Cheveldae, Scott Bailey, to name just a few.

The guy retired in 1998 with 372 wins, put him in the damned hall.