On Saturday, two-time Stanley Cup champion goalie with the Blackhawks Corey Crawford announced his retirement.
Crawford had signed a two-year deal with the New Jersey Devils in the offseason that carried a $3.9 million average annual value. The 36-year-old Montreal native missed five-straight days at the Devils' training camp after being there for the first two.
A silver lining to the situation is that Crawford played his last game for the Hawks, the only NHL squad he played games for.
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NBC Sports Chicago caught up with NHL Network analyst Kevin Weekes, a former goalie who logged 348 NHL contests, to get his take on where Crawford and the other iconic Chicago Blackhawks goalies rank all-time, pound for pound.
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"This is like splitting atoms," Weekes said when asked what order the netminders fall into. "This is like going into the garage and saying, 'Alright am I taking the Aston Martin today?, is it the Lambo' today?, Am I going with the Ferrari today?, Or is it the Bentley?
"If you look at Mr. Goalie (Glenn Hall) and all the consecutive games that he played, come on, is that ever going to happen again? I don't think that that's ever happening again. 502 consecutive games played (an NHL goalie record) for the great Glenn Hall, I think we have to start there.
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"Next up, Tony O (Tony Esposito) and all of his amazing accomplishments, the legendary Tony O, the Southpaw, him and his brother going back and forth. Or is it Crow (Corey Crawford). I'm going to go with Crow there.
"I'm going to go with Glenn Hall, Crow, Tony O, The Eagle (Ed Belfour). All four of those guys on their own are icons."
Weekes' official ranking of all-time best Blackhawks goalies:
1. Glenn Hall: 1961 Stanley Cup champ, two-time Vezina winner with Hawks
2. Corey Crawford: Two-time Cup winner, most Blackhawks playoff wins (52)
3. Tony Esposito: Most regular season wins (418), three Vezinas with Chicago
4. Ed Belfour: Calder trophy, two Vezinas with the Blackhawks
"What I love about Crow, and what I want to say about Crow because I want to give Crow his due, I know he overcooked in the minors for a long time," Weekes continued. "You know the Hawks had him marinating in the juices for a while before they brought him up to the big plate in the United Center. What I love about Crow is that Crow never got his full due and didn't get his full love from different people around the league and people were trying to hate on him and he just got better and better and better and better and better.
"I'm going to tell you this right now and here's something that's cool, like Crow, I loved playing my hometown team the Toronto Maple Leafs, and I loved putting on a show against them because my family and friends, some people I grew up playing youth hockey with, buddies that I had since I was eight... And then for the idiots that I went to school with too that were haters, I loved nothing better than playing against the Leafs and putting on a show and them seeing me out there doing that. The reason that I preface it that way is whenever Crow plays Montreal as well and he's in Montreal, it's lights out, forget it, it's done, that's a wrap. He's going to win and put on a show and get a game star."
Weekes can be seen throughout the NHL regular season on NHL Tonight.