[4] Brodeur credited his durability, noting he was fortunate to avoid suffering any serious injuries during his career, while having the ability to play in excess of 70 games per season for 10 consecutive years.
[7] Only eighteen goaltenders on this list have won at least 300 games on one team: Martin Brodeur (New Jersey Devils), Marc-Andre Fleury (Pittsburgh Penguins), Terry Sawchuk (Detroit Red Wings), Jacques Plante (Montreal Canadiens), Tony Esposito (Chicago Blackhawks), Chris Osgood (Detroit Red Wings), Jonathan Quick (Los Angeles Kings), Miikka Kiprusoff (Calgary Flames), Billy Smith (New York Islanders), and Olaf Kolzig (Washington Capitals); and only eight of those goaltenders on this list (Turk Broda (Toronto Maple Leafs), Mike Richter (New York Rangers), Pekka Rinne (Nashville Predators), Carey Price (Montreal Canadiens), Tuukka Rask (Boston Bruins) Henrik Lundqvist (New York Rangers), Andrei Vasilevskiy (Tampa Bay Lightning), and Connor Hellebuyck (Winnipeg Jets)) have played all their games with one team.
Five goaltenders on this list remain active in the 2024–25 NHL season: Sergei Bobrovsky, Marc-Andre Fleury, Connor Hellebuyck, Jonathan Quick, and Andrei Vasilevskiy.
[9] The 42 goaltenders who have 300 NHL wins consist of 22 Canadians, seven Americans (Craig Anderson, Tom Barrasso, Connor Hellebuyck, Ryan Miller, Jonathan Quick, Mike Richter, John Vanbiesbrouck), four Finns (Miikka Kiprusoff, Kari Lehtonen, Tuukka Rask, Pekka Rinne), four Russians (Sergei Bobrovsky, Nikolai Khabibulin, Evgeni Nabokov, Andrei Vasilevskiy), two Czechs (Dominik Hasek, Tomas Vokoun), one German[10] (Olaf Kolzig), one Swede (Henrik Lundqvist) and one Danish (Frederik Andersen).
According to Brent Sutter, who coached Brodeur and Kiprusoff, and played with Ed Belfour and Billy Smith, goaltenders who reach 300 wins are all highly competitive athletes: "They were guys that every game, you knew you could count on them.