The NHL subsequently changed the rule to allow any goaltender who played a minimum of 25 games to qualify for the Vezina if his team allowed the fewest goals against, and applied this rule retroactively to Sawchuk and Bower.

Sawchuk finished his hockey career with 447 wins, a record that stood for thirty years, and his career record of 103 shutouts remained unsurpassed among NHL goaltenders, until Martin Brodeur bested that mark on December 21, 2009.

On March 1 of 2008, Joseph moved past Terry Sawchuk for fourth place in all-time NHL wins with 448 in a 3-1 win over his former team, the Phoenix Coyotes.

Gordie Howe led the NHL in goals, assists, and points while goaltender Terry Sawchuk won the Calder Trophy as the league's best rookie.

Further, Detroit netminder Terry Sawchuk recorded his 94th career NHL shutout, tying him with George Hainsworth as the all-time NHL shutout leader.

On January 18, Terry Sawchuk broke George Hainsworth's NHL career shutout record with his 95th in a 2 – 0 win over Montreal.

When Terry Sawchuk was injured in practice, the Red Wings brought up Glenn Hall and he made his NHL debut on December 27 and played well in a 2 – 2 tie with Montreal.

The game was spoiled by a brawl, the chief participants being Dave Balon, Bill Gadsby, Doug Barkley and Terry Sawchuk.

Sawchuk married Patricia Ann Bowman Morey on August 6, 1953 after a brief courtship.

After the 1969 – 1970 season ended, Sawchuk and Rangers teammate Ron Stewart, both of whom had been drinking, argued over expenses for the house they rented together on Long Island, New York.

Sawchuk suffered severe internal injuries during the scuffle from falling on top of Stewart's bent knee.

In 1998, he was ranked number 16 on The Hockey News list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players, currently the highest rank for a living former goaltender ( No. 13-ranked Jacques Plante died in 1986, and No. 9 Terry Sawchuk in 1970 ).

Terry Sawchuk got his 99th shutout when Toronto blanked Detroit 4 – 0 on February 25.

Rookie Detroit goaltender Roger Crozier, substituting for injured Terry Sawchuk, recorded his second shutout against Boston on January 7.

Detroit goaltender Terry Sawchuk did not give up a goal on home ice during the playoffs.

Sawchuk also filled in for seven games when the Detroit goalie Harry Lumley was injured in January 1950.

Sawchuk was ordered by Detroit general manager Jack Adams to lose weight before the 1951 – 1952 season, and his personality seemed to change when he dropped more than forty pounds, becoming sullen and withdrawn.

After seven seasons, when they had another promising young goalie ( Roger Crozier ) ready for promotion from the minor leagues, Detroit left Sawchuk unprotected in the intraleague waiver draft, and he was quickly claimed by the Maple Leafs.

Howe would hold the all-time career goalscoring record for thirty seasons until broken by Wayne Gretzky in 1994, while Sawchuk would hold the all-time shutout record for thirty-five seasons, when it was broken in 2009 by Martin Brodeur.

In the 1964 playoffs, Detroit had been forced to use Bob Champoux, a rookie goaltender when regular goalie Terry Sawchuk was injured.

Terry Sawchuk had been playing well and was a candidate for the Hart Trophy, when he came down with mononucleosis.

Terrance Gordon Sawchuk ( December 28, 1929 – May 31, 1970 ) was a Ukrainian-Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers.

Sawchuk spent his final season with the New York Rangers, where he played sparingly.

Francis Boris " Bo " Sawchuk: Shirley's sidekick.

After being upset by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1951 semifinals, Detroit won its fifth Cup in 1952, sweeping both the Leafs and the Canadiens, with the Production Line of Howe, Abel and Lindsay joined by second-year goalie Terry Sawchuk.

After inheriting his older brother's goalie equipment, Sawchuk began playing ice hockey in a local league and worked for a sheet-metal company installing vents over bakery ovens.

The Red Wings traded Sawchuk to the Boston Bruins in June 1955 because they had a capable younger goaltender in the minor leagues ( Glenn Hall ), which devastated the self-critical goalie.

Sawchuk set the standard for measuring goaltenders, and was publicly hailed as the " best goalie ever " by a rival general manager in 1952, during only his second season.

He finally made the Red Wings ' lineup as their starting goalie in the 1955 – 56 season, displacing Terry Sawchuk.

At the time of his retirement, Worsley had played more games than any goalie except for Terry Sawchuk and Glenn Hall.

Sawchuk set a record for most wins by a goalie, as he was in net for all of Detroit's 44 victories.

During his career, Sawchuk won 501 games ( 447 regular season and 54 playoff ), while recording 115 shutouts, ( 103 in the regular season and 12 in the playoffs ).

Glenn Hall, after two playoff years in which the Wings were eliminated, was traded, along with Ted Lindsay to the Chicago Black Hawks and Terry Sawchuk was brought back to Detroit in a deal that saw Larry Hillman and Johnny Bucyk go to Boston.

He also became the first goaltender to record back-to-back shutouts in the semifinals since the Red Wings ' Terry Sawchuk did so against the Maple Leafs in 1952.

Meanwhile Vanbiesbrouck won the Terry Sawchuk Award, with back-up Ron Scott, for fewest goals against in the league and shared CHL MVP honors with Bruce Affleck by winning the Tommy Ivan Trophy.

For example, a year earlier, he had traded Sawchuk to Boston ; while he managed to get Sawchuk back two years later, he had to trade up-and-coming Johnny Bucyk to do it.

During his second season with Boston, Sawchuk was diagnosed with mononucleosis, but returned to the team after only two weeks.

Detroit reacquired Sawchuk by trading young forward Johnny Bucyk to Boston.

Two modest years later in 1957, he was traded to the Bruins in a surprising deal for Terry Sawchuk, one of the greatest goaltenders of the day.

However, despite having Howe, Delvecchio, Norm Ullman, and Parker MacDonald as consistent goal-scorers, Lindsay's sudden one-year comeback in 1964 – 65, and Sawchuk and later Roger Crozier between the pipes, the Wings came away empty-handed.

Richard, still traveling at full speed, pulled himself up to one knee and poked the puck past Terry Sawchuk.

The team consisted of Rich Kolisnyk ( quarterback ), Mel Kotch, Bob Jones, Tom Brisson, Bill Ritchie, Len Sigurdson, Walt Van Wynsberg, Lorne Miller, Gerry Duguid, Harry Makin, Art Makin, Jerry Lavitt, John Thorney, Bill Barrett, Jim Thorney, Al McBride, Bill Senyk, Bob Bouchard, Ray Charambura, Nick Miller, Dick Hebertson, Ron Stephenson, Al Passman, Mort Corrin, Bill Yee, Norm Lampe, Dede Brown, Joe Sawchuk, Art Brockhill, Lew Miles, Ken Freeman, Bill Thomas, Ron Cooke, Pete Sawchuk, Harry Snider, Harold Neufeld and their mascot Ken Kolisnyk.

Terry Sawchuk played 36 games for the Leafs with a GAA of 2. 56, while his teammate Johnny Bower played 34 games with a league-leading GAA of 2. 38, but Sawchuk was to be the sole winner under the old criteria.

At the end of the season, Sawchuk publicly stated that he would refuse the trophy if Bower would not also have his name inscribed.

* December 28-Terry Sawchuk, ice hockey player ( d. 1970 )

* May 31-Terry Sawchuk, ice hockey player ( b. 1929 )

Sawchuk was born and raised in East Kildonan, a working-class, Ukrainian section of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

He was the third of four sons and one adopted daughter of Louis Sawchuk, a tinsmith who had emigrated to Canada as a boy from Galicia, Austria – Hungary ( now Ukraine ), and his wife Anne ( nee Maslak ), a homemaker.

At age twelve, Sawchuk injured his right elbow playing rugby and, not wanting to be punished by his parents, hid the injury, preventing the dislocation from properly healing.

Sawchuk showed such promise that the Red Wings traded Lumley to the Chicago Black Hawks, though he had just led the team to the 1949 – 1950 Stanley Cup.

In the 1951 – 1952 playoffs, the Red Wings swept both the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens, with Sawchuk surrendering five goals in eight games ( for a 0. 67 GAA ), with four shutouts.