Glenn Hall

Hall, who in his retirement years has worked part-time as a goalie consultant for the Edmonton Oilers and later the Calgary Flames, both in the Alberta province where he lives, is a throwback to a fondly remembered hockey era, long before the NHL expanded into such places as Anaheim, San Jose and Nashville. "Modern NHL teams, with four and five goaltenders under contract and a full-time reserve on the bench, dressed and ready, couldn't comprehend a time when a single goal-tender went to work every night," Wayne Scanlan wrote in the Ottawa Citizen in November, 2002.

Could a goalie play that many games in a row today? "No," said Hall in 1999, his answer as point blank as many of the shots he faced. "In those days, a goalie had to go the whole nine innings. If one goalkeeper had a bad night, he had to play through. Today, if you're not playing well, another guy who's reasonably good can come in and play half the game."

In conjunction with the 2000 NHL All-Star game, held in Toronto, the National Post of Canada asked several former stars and hockey personalities to name their greatest starting six. Orr, Hull and goalies Ken Dryden and Lorne "Gump" Worsley voted for Hall in goal.