The Underapreciated, Jimmy Howard.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Jimmy Howard was the Red Wings starting goaltender for the better part of a decade. he was selected to 3 all-star teams and is the franchise leader in saves. but we rarely talk about him like we do other great goalies. I think he deserves more credit.
Jimmy Howard was my childhood
I kinda miss Jimothy Howard man, he was just solid all the time
Never "solid" in the big games.
Jimmy Howard was my favorite growing up!! He was the last great goalie we had after osgood!
Jimmy is and was the epitome of fine, both as a goalie and broadcaster
Howard was my favorite player
Jimbo was real solid. His issue was being injury prone. He'd have an incredible first 1/2 of the season, then get injured around the ASG and wouldn't be the same for the rest of the season. Numbers would dip substantially from 1st half.
His shootouts became notorious for letting in 5-hole goals.
That all being said, if he didn't get injured like every season, he'd have gotten much more credit and success during his career.
Terry Sawchuk, Jimmy Howard, Rogie Vachon, all Red Wings legends. I'm not a Red Wings fan but as an old goalie I'm a Jimmy Howard fan.
Jimmy the saint
The Man, The Myth, The Jimmy
I think the timelines of Howard’s peak and the Red Wings peaks did not line up. His first couple years were greatly promising, but the team was on its way down as he was coming up. We really should have traded him at some point, maybe sped up the rebuild and see what he could have done at his peak with another team around him. You’re right that goalies are the easy lightning rod when things aren’t going well, and I think people will unfortunately mostly remember his last 2-3 years
I was kind of young during most of his career so take this with a grain of salt, but i think early is his career, in his early prime stage, when he was putting up really good numbers he was still kind of overshadowed by osgood, he did get his time from 2010-2015ish, but after that point the red wings fell off big time and he wasnt really in his prime anymore, they kept starting him even though he was letting in 4+ goals per game, so i think he was pretty good but maybe shouldve retired a little earlier
A decent amount of that was the defense being terrible. But ya Jimmy being older didn't help. I also don't want to think about what the alternative to Jimmy Howard in net would've been at that time. (No hate to Jonathan Bernier and Eric Comrie)
Jimmy was solid, but was an easy scapegoat for the team at the time. Looking back though, it's hard to blame the guy for not being superhuman, and that what it would have took to do more than what he did for you. Sure at any given point in his career, you can look at a handful of guys and say they were clearly better than him, but that was really it until the end and that is so good it's unreal he was just not the best.
This is simply the nature of professional sports. Unless your a household name, like Brady or Gretzky, every professional athlete will be forgotten in time, overshadowed by the newer generations of players
Idk about that one. People still talk about Don Kelly. In Indiana People still talk about Jeff Foster, Chris Kramer, and Clark Kellogg. I'm not saying people are forgetting Jimmy Howard, I'm just saying he was underappreciated.
Better goalie than Henrik Lundqvist... change my mind.
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He would make a save that’s out of this world no chance he could have made it yet then very next shot let in an easy save shot. He was inconsistent and a garbage can could be more consistent than he was.
Fair. But also, that's still better than a lot of other goalies today. I still feel bad for Alex Nedeljkovic never being able to overcome his mental struggles in Detroit.
As a Wings fan of over 40 years, no he's not underappreciated. Good goalie (not great) who could never win the big games
Never said he was great. But doesn't deserve the title of "could never win the big games." It's not like he threw away elimination games. In Elminatiom games Jimmy lost, He has a 2.25 GAA, .941 SV%, and all of them were one score games. Obviously, it's still partially his fault, but the blame also needs to fall on the wings inability to score.
Howard was crap. If you ever gave him a lead he stopped playing. How about those shoot outs one move you had him beat.
youre crap
sorry, but i always disliked Howard. He was one of the worst goalies we ever had in my eyes.
that's fair 🤷♂️. I can see that perspective. I will admit I probably give Goalies the benefit of the doubt more often than I should.
no it’s not fair he didn’t give a reason
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