Today, Ken Dryden looks back to 1971 as he considers the late MacNeil -- first as a signature in his 1950s schoolboy autograph book, then briefly as a teammate with Canada’s national team ...

Then even before that, you had iconic showings by goalies Ken Dryden and Tony Esposito in the 1972 Summit Series, and Oilers' great Grant Fuhr for that matter during the 1987 Canada Cup.

Sunday night will mark a half century since Ken Dryden played his first NHL game. What followed was one of the most remarkable careers in NHL history. For each one of the 8,068 players in NHL ...