Chris Osgood
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"Christopher John Osgood" 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 Goalie mask#Helmet cage combination/player's helmet/cage combo instead of the newer one piece Goalie mask#Full fiberglass/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 List of goaltenders who have scored a goal in an NHL game/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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For me, it's better to be out for a week or two weeks, than be out for three months. It doesn't feel as bad as what they say, but I've never had a groin injury, so I don't know how long it will be. I don't feel I'll be out that long, for some reason. I don't know. I have to wait to put my stuff on, see how I feel.

Piet said if I hurt it worse, it could be like two or three months. It's a bad injury for a goalie. I know guys that have been out for a year.

We did have our chances. It was a game of bounces, and we didn't find one. I was surprised we lost.

You knew it was going to happen sooner or later.

It's something I'd been looking forward to for a long time, playing a game at home. It's a lot better playing in red and white. I've been under siege a few times at the other end.

I'll practice hard and get ready to play when he tells me to play, and support Manny. More than ever, it's more about the team than it ever has been.

Tonight wasn't one of our better games, but we managed to find a way.

It was something I was looking forward to for a while, the chance to play at home. It was tough missing opening night, missing so many games with an injury. So now, about a month later, I get to play at home under different circumstances. I enjoyed it. Ever since I came back and put the jersey on, I've been fired up about playing here.

I was just asking him how he was, and I said I was ready and he didn't have to push it if he was injured, and that was it, really.