seagoal

34 minutes ago, Chenner29 said:

None of these.

Your head, torso, shoulders should slightly shift toward your right on a blocker save as your head tracks down over it. You're not just moving your torso laterally but also twisting a little bit at the spine.

This puts your torso on angle in case of a rebound on that side (so you just pick up your left leg and push), allows you to reach forward and laterally a little bit more to fill space, and gets your glove more toward that side if you do need to cover a muffin. 

Note you do not want to be "punching" into the puck (I think we discussed this before) as that takes away velocity from the flight path and will frequently just put pucks in the kill zone around you, nor do you want to flex or snap your wrist for the same reason.  Just let the board do the work and direct it to the corner.

Just to clarify, these situations in discussion here are on the ice, so these are stick saves on the blocker side, not blocker saves.

I have a video clip of an example I want to pull from my game this past Tuesday. I can grab it this evening after work and I'll post it.

57 minutes ago, Novasteel31 said:

I mean personally I also find it hard when the shot comes in super slow to direct it into the corner and what I have been doing myself for these is since the shot is coming in sower I have more time to actually centre myself to the shot and cradle it and usually not allow a rebound and stop the play.

49 minutes ago, coopaloop1234 said:

Definitely. 

@seagoal it sounds like you're reaching for slower shots which is just going to cause the issues you're describing. The second you reach for a save, your recovery and ability to reposition is surmountably longer. If you're able to, you should be leaning or shifting into these shots to get them centre mass. 

Obviously sometimes that's not possible whether the puck takes an odd bounce or you miss / misread the initial shot, but in a perfect scenario you'll want to be repositioning yourself to the shot and not remain static and start reaching. 

Otherwise, the other way you could tackle this is to get way faster at your post save recoveries so that you can get back to position before the opposing player is able to get to the puck so you can make a better save selection on the follow up. 

Though that's always tougher than just playing the initial shot better.  

Thank you both.  What you're saying makes perfect sense.

I think for me this is one of those situations where a save selection is locked and loaded in my mind and body and then once the shot develops it requires and pivot to adjust to the situation.  I end up taking these as though they have some heat on them but then this save selection is no longer effective and I get trapped left of center and, yes @coopaloop1234, reaching is a great word.  Reaching for a puck too far too my right and too far in front of me.

I definitely have no problems with slower shots on my left, glove-side, or dead center.  These can be covered easily.  Just gotta work on these stick-side shots and not trapping myself.

Not having this problem on my Div. 4 team, just mostly in my lower 40+ league.

One thing I have been burned on a few times lately is on slower stick-side shots, low on the ice, that end up just slightly being pushed out in front of me, right of center, for a rebound to be pounced on, forcing me to make a reactive second save.

Kinda from this position

which a pic grab from this video starting at the 5:10 mark with the stick-side shots

Taking these like in the video is easy enough and I have zero problems with these when the shots have enough speed on them to actually direct them and deflect them away.

Where I struggle is when the shots, for whatever reason, are slow enough to where they just either softly deflect maybe a foot or two away from me, or, just kinda die on my blade .  In either case, I am not in a good position to cover easily and I am forced to fight to get into position for a blocking save or fight to make a reactive save on a second shot that someone pounces on.

So I starte telling myself in my pre-game self-talk "no lazy stick-side rebounds, cover aggressively or push it aggressively."

What do you guys think is the best option on these?

-be better at taking these slower shots more centered and symmetrically and not off to my stick-side right?

-be more aggressive at recovering and trying to get my glove on the puck?

-be more aggressive at recovering with a poke/push with my stick ?

Just now, coopaloop1234 said:

Aye. Believe they went Nabokov -> Niemi -> Jones. 

Oof. 

Just now, coopaloop1234 said:

23 men, 1 goal, 1 presidents trophy, 1 first round exit. 

Was that Nabokov too? 

My buddy apparently does Jedi Google searches 

#56

Found this randomly at the rink last night. 

At first I saw this

which is common and I was all "please don't be Kraken please don't be Kraken "

and then discovered this beauty 

Definitely the cutest puck in the collection. 

I wonder who signed it?

Really happy about this one. 

4 minutes ago, coopaloop1234 said:

He's probably going to be one of those goalies that can't tell his ass from the ground when it comes to gear. 

 

I'd bet money on that. 

That'd be a fun thread: speculation on which NHL goalies are gear nerds or not.

4 minutes ago, coopaloop1234 said:

So are you going to play it cool? Or are you going to gush? 

Haha. Well, it will be a challenge to not talk about goalie stuff.  I don't know anything about horses, which is his thing. We did both move from Denver to Seattle, that might be my in.  He does have nice hair, but prolly won't bring that up.

My buddy told me "Phil" got ahold of him yesterday and told him to bring his kid down to the glass for warmies last night so he can throw him a puck, which he did, of course.  So now, I need to figure out how to break-in to my buddy's house Mission Impossible style, steal that puck, and replace it with a decoy.  I know where he lives. 

Mrazek 

Rittich

22 minutes ago, A.YOUNGoalie13 said:

For as similar as it looks to slr3, I think this looks way better than slr3, somehow. Lol

Yeah, I've been a fan of every SLR graphic and how the color zones can be used. 

This design in blue reminds me of something I can't quite name.....maybe chicken feet?  Aquatic dinosaur feet??  Not in a bad way though, LOL.

10 hours ago, A.YOUNGoalie13 said:

Admirals locker looking sharp!

I'm liking that SLR graphic.   Looks good for a mostly white use of a single color. 

So one of my teammates' wife is good friends with Grubauer's wife.  She's apparently hanging out with them at their house.  My buddy hasn't been there yet, but they are apparently double dating soon.  Pretty good chance I might get to meet him one day, which will be pretty cool.

I've never met a pro hockey player before in a real life setting, much less a goalie.  I have met a few in professional meet-n-greet settings before, though.  Carter Hart is the one goalie I've met.

Quick little adjustment to this mod.

In my game Wednesday I had to scramble before the game to help my buddy get our roster to the scorekeeper and had to grab my phone.  I didn't get my glove back on properly and the added red thumb pillow got pushed out from beneath the straps and it all became loose and stock-like again.

So I needed a way to lock the thumb pillow in place to preven this from happening again and thankully there was already the velcro strip sewed onto it.  So, I took the stock toe ties from my pads, made a quick snip, and just stuck it on over the strap, locking it in place. As an aesthetic bonus, it now says Bauer on the mod so it looks relatively legit.  Nice little bonus to the eye.

3 minutes ago, ThatCarGuy said:

Shhhh no one tell him

Ha, sorry.

I was having some log in/refresh issues.  My pic is better anyway cuz I cropped it, so take that. 

Sort of appropriate to post here.  Found these on Instagram 

I'm drooling 

4 hours ago, johncho said:

@seagoal I was at the 67s opener and I thought of you and this thread.

This is yours if you want it.

 

Oh man, that's a really good one.  Thank you @johncho, very kind and thoughtful.  

I'll send you a message soon.  

18 minutes ago, keeperton said:

I didn't think Jay still did masks. Cool to see him (back) at it, always loved his masks in the WHL.

Yeah, I looked him up.  I only saw paintings, nothing related to goalie helmets other than an Instagram story.

On 9/26/2023 at 3:39 PM, Puckstopper said:

Quoted for truth!   If I need to lug a telescope to the stands to see WTF is going on with your mask, you've done it wrong.   I yearn for the days of Belfour, Cujo and Richter when you could make out what was on the mask watching terrible 90's TV.  

On 9/26/2023 at 5:16 PM, keeperton said:

Going to use this as a platform to say I've always loved Husso's masks (hey look, Mr. Goaliecustomizer worked on this). https://www.instagram.com/p/CxnxpwKMvdS/

My buddy put it well this morning looking at Driedger's new helmet:  they look better when it's one big thing as opposed to many little things.

In other words, simple looks better than complex.

54 minutes ago, chakal said:

Not sure about Primeau's set. Looks good on this picture but from afar (stands or on TV), it looks like a mess.

The gloves do not match the pads and the C around Bauer on the knees looks very strange.

Driedger's new bucket.  Painted by a fine art artist,  not a typical helmet airbrush artist. 

I'm really digging the design and colors.  It looks really good with how zoomed-in the perspective is making all the elements look larger than they should be.  It's a cool effect. 

1 minute ago, keeperton said:

Buckaroos. I don't know if it ever went through on my Captain's side, this would be an interesting way to find out lol.

Sorry buddy,  no good news to report  .

@keeperton what was the name of your tournament team again?  Winthrop lineups got posted today .

Just now, coopaloop1234 said:

It always takes me a moment to get used to professionally lit ice surfaces compared to most minor league rinks. 

I occasionally play on the WHL Giants Ice surface and not only is the ice great, but it's fucking bright too. 

Also considerably warmer too. 

Yup. I play on the Silvertips ice tonight.

6 minutes ago, Lucky Pucker said:

Aw, sheeeeeet. Now I feel bad. This puck does not actually exist (that I know of). I just took a picture of the ubiquitous Crappy Tire puck, and edited the photo on my phone. 
Flattered that you liked my design though - lol!

LOL, I know.  Don't feel bad.  I was playing into the joke.