Unlike most, Daccord didn’t play in goal until bantam hockey, and skated out all the way up to high school. “He’s probably the best puckhandling goalie in the league,” one goalie coach said.

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and took home the Roger Crozier Saving Grace Award in 2000 (which is given to the goalie with the best save percentage). He was selected to six All-Star Games and was enshrined in the Hockey Hall ...