About The Goaltender Home Page

THE AUTHOR: Dr. Doug Norris grew up in Port Orchard, Washington. He developed his love for hockey while earning a bachelor of science at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. He completed his doctorate in mathematics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, graduating in 2002. After a short career as a mathematics professor, he is currently working in the actuarial field in Denver, Colorado.

While at Colorado, Doug played goal from 2000 through 2002, and was an assistant coach for the university women's team from 1998 through 2003, and the men's team from 2002 through 2003, also working with the Boulder Valley Hockey Association, Hyland Hills Hockey Association, and various private tutoring.

THE PAGE: The Goaltender Home Page began in the spring of 1994 as a fan site for then-Vancouver netminder Kirk McLean, who would lead the Canucks to the Stanley Cup Final later in the year. In short order, the page became a storage area for biographies of the top National Hockey League goaltenders, and before long, I had several hundred biographies on the Page. The Page followed me to Colorado in 1995, where it remainded until September of 2003, when it was moved to its present location. Although I do solicit corrections and submissions, I'm still the sole curator of the site, and am responsible for all upkeep within.

MY PHILOSOPHY: Those of you who have poked around the page probably notice one thing - it's not too fancy. That's intentional - when I go to a website, it's usually because I want to find out something about a subject of interest - bells and whistles are nice, but when they distract from what I'm trying to find, it's annoying. So...my goals are as follows here at the Page: when you come here, you should be able to find what you're looking for quickly, and be able to rely on the information as fact. That's it.

THANK-YOUS: Liam Maguire, Loren Woo, Khan Klatt, Stu McMurray, Eric Hornick, Tom Awad, Ralph Slate, M. Scott Ramming, Mike Taylor, Ken Krzywicki, Morey Holzman, Iain Fyffe, Alan Ryder, Joe Pelletier, Patrick Houda, Rick Cole, Marc Foster, Thomas Wharry, David Zetterman, Alexandra Ackerman, Martin Schmid, Jayzin Smith, Lisa Pasquale, Mark Calandra, Gianpaolo, Buffaloes, Irish Blues, and statistics from HFBoards, everyone at the Hockey History mailing list and the Hockey Analytics Group, and everyone who plays trivia each and every week - for keeping me on my toes, corrections to the page and entertaining me. Also, thank you to the goaltenders, without whom this page would not be possible or necessary. (I'm still adding to this list as I remember! There's a lot of you!)

PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY: When possible, I've linked these listings to their location at Amazon.com, a Seattle-area bookstore which I've always had success in ordering from. If you order any of these books, I'll receive 15%, so if you're thinking of purchasing them, why not help me out? For what it's worth, this is the only source of revenue I receive from this page (not that I'm complaining - I wouldn't run this page as anything other than a hobby):

Also, I'm still adding to this list as I have time - as you can see, it's a big list