{"id":183,"date":"2014-10-08T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=183"},"modified":"2015-01-09T16:53:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T21:53:21","slug":"tom-barrasso-a-legendary-goaltender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2014\/10\/08\/tom-barrasso-a-legendary-goaltender\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Barrasso, a legendary goaltender"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom Barrasso steps silent through the midst of reporters outside the Public Safety Building, May 1994, John Heller\/Post-Gazette <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Tom Barrasso after the Penguins defeated the Rangers, May 14, 1992. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Barrasso had to retreat all the way into the net to make this first period stop against the Whalers, February, 1992, Bob Donaldson\/Post-Gazette. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Barrasso with the Prince of Whales trophy in the Penguins locker room following the a 5-3 win over the Bruins, May 1991, Bob Donaldson\/Post-Gazette <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Goalie Barrasso announces his renewed contract with the Pens, 1992 (Gene Puskar\/Associated Press) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

All eyes are on the Penguins as a new hockey season is officially about to start in Pittsburgh this week against the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n

As has been the case in the past, the hopes for this season is that this year\u2019s Penguins will bring Pittsburgh lots of good memories, less injuries and more victories. The Stanley Cup wouldn\u2019t be bad either.<\/p>\n

Perhaps bringing back the black-and-gold outfits of the 90s as their third jerseys will serve as a lucky charm. Marc-Andre Fleury\u2019s outfit is the coolest, no doubt.\u00a0 He will be sporting the giant yellow pads, gloves and a yellow\u00a0 mask, which \u2014 if you remember the Penguins of the 90s \u2014 looks like the mask that the legendary Tom Barrasso used to wear during Penguins\u2019 glory days when the team won consecutive Stanley Cups in 1991 and 1992.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to Tom Barrasso\u2026 In our archive, folders with Barrasso\u2019s images do not bleed black and gold, they are mostly black and white. But they do tell a story of a golden boy, the story of his play that established him as a \u201cmoney goalie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barrasso\u2019s journey to professional hockey started early. He went straight from high school to the NHL becoming the first and the only goaltender to ever play in the NHL without having played major junior or college hockey.<\/p>\n

His coaches agreed: \u201cHe has hockey sense, he stops the puck well and he knows what he\u2019s doing.\u201d He stopped a lot of pucks. In 1997, he set a record as the first U.S. goaltender with 300 NHL wins.<\/p>\n

In 2000, he was traded to the Ottawa Senators, then joined the Carolina Hurricanes. After that he played with the Maple Leafs and the St. Louis Blues. Barrasso played 19 NHL seasons with 6 teams, 12 of those seasons he played in as a Penguin. In 2003, to retire as a Pittsburgh Penguin, Tom Barrasso signed a pro forma contract with them and then announced his retirement.<\/p>\n

In spite of his great play or maybe because of it, Barrasso\u2019s relationships with many teammates and the Pittsburgh media was, as the PG\u2019s Dave Molinari once put it<\/a>, \u201cfrosty, at best.\u201d That was unfortunate, Molinari wrote, \u201cbecause he was capable of offering great insight on things that happened on the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was inducted in the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In our archive, folders with Barrasso\u2019s images do not bleed black and gold, they are mostly black and white. <\/p>\n

Look at the picturesTom Barrasso, a legendary goaltender<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[944],"tags":[971,981,1187,1179,1182,1035],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tumblr_nd3jlnQzlR1rr5swxo4_1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C1704&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7736,"url":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2017\/06\/02\/penguins-hoping-their-own-history-repeats-itself\/","url_meta":{"origin":183,"position":0},"title":"Penguins hoping their own history repeats itself","date":"June 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Penguins\u2019 quest for their fifth Stanley Cup has one thing on its side that the Nashville Predators could not replicate even if they wanted to: historical symmetry. 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