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 Damian Rhodes
| Damian Rhodes was a goaltender who was unfortunate enough to be on teams that had tendencies to concede many penalty shots. In his career, Damian Rhodes faced a grand total of 10 penalty shots. Which player had more than one penalty shot against Damian? | NHL Goalie: Damian Rhodes
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Martin Straka. The first penalty shot Damian Rhodes faced was on November 20, 1993, against Scott Pearson of the Edmonton Oilers. Rhodes stopped that shot. The second penalty shot was on March 21, 1995, against Geoff Courtnall of the Vancouver Canucks. Like the previous, it was also a stopped shot. His third penalty shot against occurred on April 3, 1996, the first of two against Martin Straka. The first shot was a save for Damian. The fourth penalty shot came on November 13, 1996, against Todd Marchant of the Edmonton Oilers. Like the others, it was also a save. The fifth occurred on February 28, 1998, against Pavel Bure of the Vancouver Canucks. Bure was the first to score on Rhodes. The sixth occurred on April 11, 1998, against Dixon Ward of the Buffalo Sabres. It was also a goal. The seventh shot fell on October 9, 1999, against Miroslav Satan of the Buffalo Sabres. It too was a goal. The eighth shot was on March 10, 2000 against New Jersey's Patrik Elias. He also scored on Damian Rhodes. The ninth penalty shot happened on March 16, 2000, against Brad Isbister of the New York Islanders. Rhodes managed to stop that shot. The final penalty shot against Damian Rhodes occurred on January 30, 2001, against Martin Straka once again. Unlike the previous time, however, Straka managed to score on Rhodes. In the end, Damian Rhodes had five goals against and five saves on ten penalty shots.
| On January 2, 1999, Damian Rhodes scored a goal. Other goaltenders have scored in the past, but what made his goal that much more special? | NHL Goalie: Damian Rhodes
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He was the first to score in a shutout victory. On January 2, 1999, Damian's Ottawa Senators faced the New Jersey Devils. Ottawa was up 1-0 when Damian Rhodes touched the puck. The Devils took the puck from him and ended up scoring on their own empty net. Because Rhodes was the last Senator to touch the puck before the other team scored on themselves, he was credited with the goal. The game eventually ended in a 6-0 Senators victory, making Damian the first goaltender to score in a shutout victory.
| Most starting goaltenders have had two consecutive shutouts at least once in their career. Was this the case with Damian Rhodes? | NHL Goalie: Damian Rhodes
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Yes. Damian Rhodes only had only 12 shutouts in his career, and he still managed to get two consecutive shutouts once. In fact, his first two career shutouts were consecutive to one another. Even though it did take him 70 games to record his first shutout, he recorded two consecutive on March 15 and March 17 of 1996. The first game was a 2-0 victory over the Vancouver Canucks, and the second was a 5-0 victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Damian Rhodes' reputation obviously wasn't built on his shutout ability.
None, he never won an NHL trophy in his career. Damian never won a trophy in the 1997-98 season, nor had he ever done it once in his career. His goal tending was competent but never award winning, especially since he played in the same era as Martin Brodeur, Patrick Roy, Dominik Hasek, and Ed Belfour. Rhodes remained a largely unnoticed talent, eventually slipping away from the hockey picture after a disastrous season in 2001-02.
Butterfly. The butterfly is essentially a style that takes the goaltender down to the ice and allows them to make more pad and glove saves than with any other style. Rhodes showed that his particular butterfly style was effective until he joined the Atlanta Thrashers expansion team in the 1999-00 season. Nothing seemed to go right for him in that organization. In 81 games with the organization, he posted a 14-48-11 record with an underwhelming 3.64 goals against average and a mediocre 0.888% save average. Those numbers led to his eventual release from the Thrashers and his eventual retirement in the 2002-03 season.
| Despite Rhodes' general starting ability, he was never given the same opportunities in the playoffs. Someone else always took over the starting position from him in the playoffs. Has Damian ever led a team through a playoff round by himself? | NHL Goalie: Damian Rhodes
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Yes. Despite rarely getting a chance to showcase himself in the playoffs, he got his opportunity against the New Jersey Devils in the 1997-98 season. Rhodes and his Ottawa Senators defeated the Devils in six games. Game one was a 2-1 OT victory, game two was a 3-1 defeat, game three was a 2-1 OT victory, game four was a 4-3 victory, game five was a 3-1 defeat, and game six was a series clinching 2-1 victory. Rhodes was given the opportunity to start against the Capitals in the next series, but lost his chance after a 4-2 loss in game one. Ron Tugnutt took over for Rhodes, but he did not fare much better in game two, so the Senators went back to Damian. His first game back was a 4-3 victory, then followed by a 2-0 defeat, and then a series ending 3-0 defeat to the Capitals.
| Goaltenders are often known for their odd pre-game habits. Patrick Roy for example, kissed his goal posts, while Arturs Irbe sowed his pads before games. Rhodes had two odd rituals, one before a home game, and one before any game. What were these odd pre-game "ceremonies"? | NHL Goalie: Damian Rhodes
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He stayed in hotels before home games and he dyed his hair blond before every game. Some of the rituals that goaltenders perform are often odd and confusing. Rhodes had two, one of which was sensible, while the other was odd. He stayed in hotels before home games, so he could get away from the distractions of his house and make it feel like he was going to a high-pressure road game. The reason why he dyed his hair blonde before every game, was the odd one that he alone knows the reason for doing it.
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