Mr. Goalie

We never had a Gretzky, Lemieux, Orr, Esposito, or Richard. But we did have a Parent. You might be saying that we have one now too, but if you could hear how I'm pronouncing it in my head you wouldn't be playing the coy game you're playing. They used to say, "they" being dudes in cut-off shorts and softball jerseys, that only the Lord saves more than Bernie Parent. The saying in itself is ridiculous because everyone knows Yahweh never made it out of the minors due to his inability to cover his 6 hole, but it gets the point across. Bernie Parent is a Hall of Fame goalie. And he attends every game. Still.

I'm going to let Tracy Jordan from 30 Rock step in and explain our choice for Bernie Parent's back-up, Ron Hextall:
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Dude scored goals and fought people.
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Thanks Tray.

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Our choice for back-up to the back-up was the most difficult one. You have Roman Checkmanek, Pete Peters, Tommy Soderstrom, Ken "the living zombie" Wregget, Brian Boucher - there were a bunch of quality choices. But we ended up going with Bobby Esche solely because Garth Snow was a cheater, Pelle Lindbergh was a drunk, John Vanbiesbrouck is a racist, and Doug Favell has a silly name that sounds like it's made up.

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The truth is that we don't give a shit about goalies. Like we've said before - anyone who can maintain an 88% save percentage is fine with us.

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And that wraps up the FGSB All-Time Flyers Team. I dare another blog to create a team that could compete with ours. If you have the ball(s) we'll make the game happen. I'll gather all the guys mentioned below, dead or alive, and you'll lose. And then our whole staff will rent a field, crank the hippy jams, and guzzle beer while we talk about how stupid you are to think that Rob Brown deserves to be on any All-Time Greats team besides the Chicago Wolves'.