This website is dedicated to the goaltenders who made it to the NHL but have been eluded by hockey statisticians and historians. Many of these goalies are one game emergency call ups but many were also members of their respective teams for weeks or even months. None, however, experienced any official playing time. They dressed with the team and sat on the bench ready to called upon at any second. Had they been given the nod for even a minute of play at any point during any game, they would have become an NHL veteran, forever in the player registry. I feel as though these goaltenders were NHL players to some capacity, were part of the team for at least one NHL game and thus deserve some kind of recognition.
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2025 UPDATES!
Long overdue updates finally applied! "New" old goalies added, many new 'THAT goalie dressed for THAT team' goalies added and new goalies added/updated for 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons.
New 2022-2025 NHL backups added:
Nick Chenard - Toronto Maple Leafs
Calle Clang- Anaheim Ducks
Reid Cooper - Washington Capitals
Alex Fernandes - Pittsburgh Penguins
Dylan Garand - New York Rangers
Mitchell Gibson - Washington Capitals
Matt Guzda - Florida Panthers
Arvid Holm - Winnipeg Jets and Colorado Avalanche
Michael Matyas - Seattle Kraken
Dusty Nickel - Calgary Flames
Joe O'Brien - Dallas Stars
Matt Onuska - Toronto Maple Leafs
Tyler Palmer - Edmonton Oilers
Keith Petruzzelli - Toronto Maple Leafs
Remi Poirier - Dallas Stars
Isaac Poulter - New Jersey Devils
Samuel Richard - Toronto Maple Leafs
Isaiah Saville - Vegas Golden Knights
Clay Stevenson - Washington Capitals
Nikita Tolopilo - Vancouver Canucks
Some "new" old goalies include Duane Derksen (92-93 Washington Capitals), Mike Parson (92-93 Boston Bruins), Allain Roy (92-93 Winnipeg Jets), Dale Rideout (76-77 Washington Capitals) and Rick Charron (73-74 LA Kings).
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Starting for the 2017/18 season, an NHL rule change now requires that teams have an emergency goalie on hand an every home game. The EBUGs are former goalies who watch the game in the stands, have their gear on hand, and are called in to dress in case a goalie gets injured. The rule change states that you're only allowed to take warmup shots should you have to enter the game if you're NOT on the bench, thus these goalies have occasionally dressed but have largely remain hidden in back rooms.
Starting for the 2017/18 season, an NHL rule change now requires that teams have an emergency goalie on hand an every home game. The EBUGs are former goalies who watch the game in the stands, have their gear on hand, and are called in to dress in case a goalie gets injured. The rule change states that you're only allowed to take warmup shots should you have to enter the game if you're NOT on the bench, thus these goalies have occasionally dressed but have largely remain hidden in back rooms.
Hello! It turns out that Mike Ralph dressed for six games for the New York Rangers in early 1976 after being called up January 4 /76 but never seeing on-ice game action. Wearing #30.
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