Who are the most unlikely goalies to lead UND to an NCAA national title?
Apr. 5—GRAND FORKS — The unlikeliest goaltender to ever lead UND to a national championship was actually not even a goaltender. George Gratton was a forward.
But through a series of crazy events, he ended up playing goalie in the 1959 NCAA national championship game. To tell the full story, you have to go back to the 1957-58 season. UND had a phenom in goal with Bob Peters.
Peters was so good that he actually beat UND three years earlier — as a 15-year-old — playing for a team in his hometown of Fort Frances, Ont. Peters was a star on the freshman team in 1956-57 — freshmen were ineligible to play varsity at that time — then put up out-of-this-world numbers when he joined varsity as a sophomore in 1957-58. The best save percentage any UND goaltender had posted in program history, to that point, was .
894. Save percentages generally hovered around . 870.
Peters was at . 927. His goals-against average, 1.
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