Chris Osgood Ice hockey player

Christopher John Osgood (born November 26, 1972) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He is currently ranked tenth in wins in NHL regular season history with 401. Osgood spent the first part of his 17-year NHL career with the Detroit Red Wings, then the New York Islanders and the St. Louis Blues before returning to Detroit in 2005. He won three Stanley Cup championships in his career, all with the Red Wings, with two of them coming while he was starting goaltender. Osgood was known in Detroit by his nicknames "Ozzie," chanted by the crowd after a big save, and "The Wizard of Oz." Osgood is currently a Detroit Red Wings studio analyst for Fox Sports Detroit.He was the last NHL goalie to wear a traditional player's helmet/cage combo instead of the newer one piece goalie mask as he was grandfathered by the NHL, until Rick DiPietro briefly wore one in 2011 with a cage that Osgood actually used to wear, after DiPietro was injured in a fight with Brent Johnson. He is also one of only eleven goaltenders in NHL history to have scored a goal, and one of only six to have scored by shooting the puck directly into the opponent's net (not an "own goal"), on March 6, 1996 vs. the Hartford Whalers.

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Chris Osgood
Birth dateNovember 26, 1972
Birth place
Peace River Alberta
Height (meters)1.778
Weight (Kilograms)80.7408

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Ice hockey player

Career start1992
Career end2011
draft54th overall
draft team
Detroit Red Wings
draft year1991
former team
Detroit Red Wings
St. Louis Blues
New York Islanders
league
National Hockey League
position
Goaltender
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