Goalkeeper who played.

Great goalkeeper NHL - Terry Sawchuk. He literally feel for yourself the brutality of the game.

Even after all the hockey goalie mask was used, he continued to play without protection, and dressed her for the first time only in 1962. By the time his face was covered with scars, there were about four hundred.

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His body was bruised and cut. Were broken shoulder joints. Repeatedly broken fingers, torn spinal discs. His tortured arthritis. As a child, Terry broke his arm, but because of what later turned for help, it is not properly fused, and was shorter than the second.



As it turned out much later, standing at the gate Terry took a pose, with a slope of about 90 degrees due to back pain. Looking at it, it adopted many other goalkeepers as standing at the gate so that actually turned out to be much more convenient.



Despite the horrific injury, Terry never gave up and always came back to the ice. Many did not even know about his problems. He had an incredible response and courage, and that obviously helped him to become a four-time Stanley Cup winner and four-time holder of the title Best NHL goaltender.



A total of his career was in 1034 match, 447 to win the championship and an absolute record - 103 match «dry».

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