Friday, August 21, 2015

NHL Backups Only


I have two blogs, this one and Benchwarmers, a blog about my little niche in hockey history, goalies who have appeared in the NHL as backups but never dressed in the NHL. I've managed to uncover 145 goalies who have only appeared in the NHL as backups. If you want more information for any goalie, click their name and you will be directed to my other blog. I have written a blog post for each goalie with a bio, picture, stats and confirmed NHL games. 

From a hobby perspective these goalies are interesting because when they sit on the bench of an official NHL game, they are eligible for NHL rookie cards, even if they never actually play. 


Note: One time NHL backup Russ Gillow played in WHA, his autograph is in that collection.




Dereck Baribeau

Mikhail Berdin





Mike Buzak

Jim Campbell


Frederic Cloutier









Philippe Desrosiers

Wayne Doll

Alex D'Orio

Frank Doyle


Claude Dufour


Dave Elenbass

Nick Ellis



Tom Fenton


Evan Fitzpatrick



Mike Frawley

Zach Fucale

Georges Gagnon

Gord Garbutt

Michael Garteig


Darryl Gilmour


Jim Grant




Frederic Henry

Matt Hewitt

Gil Hudon

Jacob Ingham

Lars Johansson

Cam Johnson


Zane Kalemba


Kyle Konin


Craig Kowalski



Brett Leonhardt


Andre LePage


Ryan Lowe




Kevin Madolese




Ray Martyniuk


Eamon McAdam

Gavin McHale










Blaine Peterson






Bill Pye


Tim Regan


Steve Rexe




Chris Rogles


Dusan Salficky

Nathan Schoenfeld


Glen Seperich

Dave "Sudsy" Settlemyre




Artus Silovs


Peter Sternig


Miroslav Svoboda


Larry Thayer





Matthew Villalta



Bob Vroman

Jim Weaver

Jordan White


Mark Young

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