NHL Great Ken Dryden Dies At 78

Ken Dryden’s death at 78 closes the book on one of the defining goaltending careers in NHL history. The Hall of Fame recognition tells part of the story, but the larger one is how rare it is to find a goalie who shaped an era and then remained part of the game’s memory for so long. Dryden stood for an old-school kind of authority in the crease, the sort that made teammates exhale and opponents sweat. The league loses a giant here, and the reaction will stretch far beyond one dressing room.