Belfour would debut in the 1988-89 season and play for the Canadian National Team the following year, although he was recalled for the playoffs, where he played well enough to raise some eyebrows. Belfour won the starting Goaltending job for the 1990-91 season. He dominated throughout the season, winning the Vezina, William M. Jennings, and Calder Trophies (as he had not yet eclipsed his rookie limits). He was also nominated for the Hart Trophy that year.
Belfour would lead the Blackhawks to the Stanley Cup Finals the next season, and he would repeat as winner of the Vezina and William M. Jennings Trophies. He would continue his streak of “odd” seasons, as in the 1994-95 campaign, he would win his third postseason All-Star nod (a Second Place Selection) after receiving two First Team accolades.
Belfour was never known for keeping his opinions to himself, and he would be surprisingly traded to the San Jose Sharks midway through the 1996-97 season, but it was what he accomplished in Chicago that landed him in immortality in the Hockey Hall of Fame, which he would enter in 2011.
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