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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

Left unprotected in the June 1967 expansion draft, Sawchuk was the first player selected, taken by the Los Angeles Kings where he played one season before being traded back to Detroit.

Sawchuk told her the incident with Stewart " was just a fluke, a complete fluke accident.

Sawchuk was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Pontiac, Michigan.

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.

In 1971, Sawchuk was posthumously elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame and awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy for his contribution to hockey in the United States.

In 1997, the book Shutout: The Legend of Terry Sawchuk by sports author Brian Kendall, was published.

Also, the book Sawchuk: The troubles and triumphs of the World's Greatest Goalie was published in 1998 by David Dupuis, with participation by the Sawchuk family.

In 2008, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems, a book of poetry about Sawchuk by Randall Maggs, was published.

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 ).

Star goaltender Terry Sawchuk was injured, and like the previous time with the Bisons, Crozier was called up to replace.

During the off-season, Sawchuk was let go, making Crozier the Red Wings starting goaltender at the age of 22.

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.

Michael M. Sawchuk ( 1911 near Fork River, Manitoba – September 11, 1969 ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.

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.

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.

Nicknamed " Ukey " or " The Uke " by his teammates because of his Ukrainian ancestry, Sawchuk led the Red Wings to three Stanley Cups in five years, winning the Calder Trophy as the top rookie ( the first to win such honors in all three professional hockey leagues ) and three Vezina Trophies for the fewest goals allowed ( he missed out the other two years by one goal ).

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

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.

In the 1945 provincial election, CCF candidate Michael Sawchuk defeated Hryhorczuk by 338 votes.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

: Andy Bathgate, Turk Broda, Art Coulter, Bobby Clarke, Charlie Gardiner, Bryan Hextall, Tom Johnson, Harry Oliver, Babe Pratt, Terry Sawchuk, and Jack Stewart.

After his performance, however, Jack Adams traded Lumley to the Chicago Black Hawks ; Terry Sawchuk became the new goaltender for the Red Wings.

By 1947, Adams had built a farm system which bred, among others, Alex Delvecchio, Terry Sawchuk, Ted Lindsay, Red Kelly, Sid Abel, and most notably Gordie Howe.

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.

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.

* January 8 – Bill Sawchuk, swimmer

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.

With Sawchuk sharing goaltending duties with the forty-year-old Johnny Bower, the veteran duo won the 1964 – 1965 Vezina Trophy and led Toronto to the 1966 – 1967 Stanley Cup.

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.

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

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.

Hall had played only two games prior to 1955 – 56, but had shown such promise Sawchuk was sent off.