Curtis Shayne Munro Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Curtis Shayne "CuJo" Joseph (born Curtis Munro on April 29, 1967) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He last played for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League during the 2008–09 NHL season.Joseph is immediately recognizable on the ice for his masks featuring a snarling dog, drawing inspiration from the Stephen King novel Cujo, which also happens to be his nickname, derived from the first two letters of his first and last names. Throughout his NHL career, Joseph played for a number of franchises, rising to prominence during the playoffs with the St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers, and Toronto Maple Leafs. He has also played for the Detroit Red Wings, Phoenix Coyotes and Calgary Flames. He was also a member of Canada's gold medal winning team at the 2002 Winter Olympics.Joseph has the most career wins (454) of any goaltender in NHL history who never played on a Stanley Cup-winning team, and also the first goaltender to have 30 or more wins in a regular season for five different teams.
(August 18) Signed a one-year contract as an unrestricted free agent with the Phoenix Coyotes. [2005]
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Wins 400th game. His career record is 400-292-90 in 806 games. [28 October 2005]
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Five days after his birth, his 17 year old mother, Wendy Munro, gave him up for adoption to Jeanne Joseph, a nurse who had befriended her during her hospital stay; the baby still had no first name. Jeanne and her husband Harold decided to name him Curtis after his birth father, Curtis Nickle. However, it wasn't until he signed with his 1st NHL team that he legally changed his name from Curtis Shayne Munro to Curtis Shayne Joseph.
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Led his first college team, Notre Dame University (Wilcox, Saskatchewan) to the Centennial Cup, Canada's collegiate national championship.
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Attended the University of Wisconsin (Madison) on a hockey scholarship. He was not drafted, but signed as a free agent with the St. Louis Blues on 16 June 1989. A year later he was named the team's starting goaltender.
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Rights traded by the Blues to the Edmonton Oilers for first-round pick in 1996 NHL entry draft and first-round pick in the 1997 entry draft (traded to Los Angeles). These picks had been awarded to Oilers as compensation for Blues signing free agent LW Shayne Corson. [August 1995]
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Signed as a free agent (4 years, $24 million) by the Toronto Maple Leafs. [July 1998]
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Signed as free agent by the Detroit Red Wings. [July 2002]
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Traded by the Maple Leafs to the Calgary Flames for a conditional eighth-round selection in 2004 entry draft. [June 2002]