Hockey School Dropout

Well, that went sideways fast.....

It isn't "obvious" that you will catch/shoot on the same side.  Marty Turco is the most recent "famous" example I can think of....a goalie who caught "regular" but shot "right".  Hence how the Turco method of playing the puck came into existence.

I can't say I have encountered a full right goalie who shoots left though, so yes they are called "full right" because they shoot and catch right.

Also being left-handed, I catch with my right hand in baseball (and in general), but as a goalie I catch "regular" since I shoot left.  As someone mentioned, left-handed people are more ambidextrous as we have had to conform to a right-handed dominated world.  It really wasn't a big deal to start catching with my left hand when I started playing goal.

On 7/24/2020 at 3:40 PM, Colander said:

If I remember correctly, I think it was @Hockey School Dropout who played ball hockey in gear when he was on the old GCN forum. It seems @havok does as well.

Pivotal question: are you using regulation hockey nets or street hockey nets:

·        If the former, I would probably use full padding and get some roller-fly. I know you said you  wouldn’t use a sliding aid, but the benefit the position is too great to not consider it in a full-size net, IMO

·        If it is the latter, I would go gloves, some cool retro mask (modified Cooper HM7 or even funkier) and some hard surface well-padded knee pads. In that case, low stance, quick small shuffles, depth and as you said, an active stick (especially to block the backdoor) are your friends. I played all hockey a few years back on an outdoor court this way and even with a regulation net and it worked out quite well

BTW - there is a thread in the "Forums" section about Ball Hockey play...

Unfortunately I only played floor and street hockey in elementary school.  Only played on ice otherwise.

IIRC I used a 5/32" socket on my Bauer cowlings.

After having sciatica, my slides in one direction have really suffered.  This might be just what I need to improve them.  Kids might even use it too.  Thanks for posting!

Yeah that sucks.  The little places are the ones that carry lesser known (and often better) products than the giant stores (*cough* PHL *cough*) and offer much better and knowledgeable service.  I've been trying to find time to get out to some stores to look at pads, may have to make a real effort to get to Lacroix.

Yeah, that's about typical.  Always heard good things about Graf, would love to try a pair.

18 minutes ago, Mroy31 said:

They need to bring back the hatchback body 

I saw a pic of rumoured WRX hatch.  FUGLY.  I have an 11 WRX hatch as well as my Legacy wagon.  With 3 goalies in the family, no choice but to have AWD.  Pairing that with turbos and manual transmissions just makes it better. 

No pics but my 2005 Subaru Legacy GT wagon (5 speed!) gets me to games.  I can put my Grit tower bag in the back without putting the seats down.  Plus, when I'm running late, I can make up time.   

3 on 3 on a full ice pad is going to be mental torture.  Guys have pretty much twice as much room as normal, so they'll make any goalie look silly.  I spared a couple times in 3 on 3 on a small ice pad, and it was physical torture.  Had to be 100% ready 100% of the time.  Players could shoot from anywhere as the pad was about as big as one normal sized zone (blue line to boards).  

Point is, lke Imperative said, don't get too concerned over GA.

Not sure how I missed this one......

Always loved hockey.  Played one season when I was 5 and never really learned how to skate.  Parents had no interest on hockey and used my inability to skate as an excuse to keep me out of it.  Loved street hockey and floor hockey, always as the goalie.  Fast forward to age 25 and started skating with the intent to play hockey.  Got in with a pickup group and played a couple years with them and found myself on a men's league team.  Played for 10 or so years and started running my own men's team.  I've played all skater positions (with varying success) and after having to find spare goalies far too often, I decided to jump in to something I always wanted to do - play goal.  So 7-8 years ago I bought a whack of used gear and took some adult goalie clinics (actually switching from skater to goalie during the first one).  Started playing with a group of mostly novice adult players, found my way onto a team and the rest is history.  

I still skate with a pickup group where I spare occasionally as a goalie, and I play in a league as a goalie with some assorted sparing here and there.

I bought a used GoPro off eBay many years ago.  The seller had a good rating, and I figured that would work out.  I got the GoPro, it wouldn't turn on and wouldn't charge.  The battery connections on the battery AND in the camera were corroded.  I notified the seller via email and received no response.  I took it to a local camera shop to see if it was salvageable, sadly no.  Due to my own procrastination, I passed the 30 days to get refunded but filed a complaint anyway.  Seller finally responded and said they would refund me if I shipped it back.  I did (glad to be rid of it) but SHOCK, no money came back.  Seller ghosted me. 

Some of it was my own fault, but even the rating system is not perfect.  I've bought stuff from sellers in Asia and gotten very fast, reliable service.  IMO, eBay is a complete crap-shoot.

On 12/28/2017 at 11:40 AM, RichMan said:

LMAO!!! For a while I thougt I was reading a Red Green Show script

I remember when wearing velour was the shit.
When you watched hockey and could name all the players on the team...cause they lasted more than 3 years.
When you believed you were Evil Knievel, took your sister's mustang and had the gonads to jump any make shift ramp available.
When Spiderman was a 2D cartoon but was still the bomb and you can STILL remember all the lyrics.
When Red Fox, Adam 12, Charlie's Angels and the Carroll Burnett shows were religion.
When snow (up here in the province of Québec) was always knee deep, any winter growing up.
When street hockey was legal and encouraged (streets or parking lots).
When Tang was the drink of champions during lunch at school cause water wasn't an option...despite the crazy heartburns that ensued.
When your mom would send you to the corner store to get some things for her, including cigarettes and no questions were asked. 
When your rank as the neighborhood goalie was indicated by the number of orange ball bruises that showed on your thighs, arms and cheeks.
When car seats were nothing more than a flat love seat with straps.
When you'd spent a whole afternoon making up stupid stories and jokes and recording it ON TAPE on A TAPE DECK with your pals.
When you had 3 real good friends and to this day, despite life's BS and all, you still keep in touch and it still feels like yesterday.

I'm 49. Take my beard away and I look early to mid 30s. I feel as young too (don't know who missed the age memo - my brain or my heart lolll). I am starting to feel little aches and pains now and then. Minor injuries take longer to heal. The way I look at life is changing, for the better. I'm much wiser (don't quote me on that one loll).

Even though I might qualify for your club, I don't feel like I'm ready to call it (me) old, cause I'm not - not yet. And besides, my BMs are still perfect  

This almost perfectly describes my childhood.

Hmmmm, might put my pants search on hold then.....

Does once count as several? 

Not if you just finished playing.

24 minutes ago, bunnyman666 said:

You wasted a perfectly good depends; that is unless you recycled

Wow, that was gross.

Suddenly I feel very "at home".

I sewed a Depends into my glove to absorb sweat.

I'm still early 40s but certainly under 70".  I'll be receiving my application in the mail shortly?

Perhaps a definition of "old" is needed.