from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

The great goaltender logjam — who was better than whom — continues to challenge voters for the Hockey Hall of Fame.

How do you select Tom Barrasso over Mike Vernon? Mike Richter over Curtis Joseph? Chris Osgood over Vernon? Joseph over Barrasso? Richter over Osgood?

Not one of them is a sure thing to make the Hall the way Patrick Roy, Martin Brodeur, Dominik Hasek and Ed Belfour were slam-dunk choices. All five candidates are more in the borderline range in a position that is under represented in the Hall. They may get in one day, they may never get in. But all five goaltenders, through similar eras and a wide-ranging of both statistical and eye test discrepancies, are worthy of consideration.

“I know all five of them very well and I like every one of them. They all made their teams better. They were all workhorses. Three of them played for us,” said Jimmy Devellano, the former general manager of the Detroit Red Wings and an elected member of the Hall. “I could see all five getting in and you really couldn’t argue against them. And I could see none of them getting in and I don’t know if you could argue against that.”

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