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This sucks :(

Understatement of the year! I'm going to see if a couple of my teammates would hit a stick time with me, if I can find time to get to one myself.

While we're on the topic of confidence and frustration, here's last nights game. I thought it was going to be one of "those nights" after the first period. It wasn't pretty by me or my defencemen but if I'd made a save in there it would have been a different story. Ended up winning 5-4, though the other team kind of got robbed in the last 30 seconds by the refs.

I'm trying to be realistic, but that's where I'm struggling. I'm happy with being a good D5 goalie. I won't ever be playing in D4 or higher so that doesn't really matter to me. And I think that's actually part of the issue with the current confidence level. I think I've mentioned it before... I'm not used to doing things I'm not good at. Rarely GREAT at, but pretty much always good at. So that makes things even more frustrating. Hills sent me some IMs yesterday of things to try so I need to get on that. What I really need is to find a stick time session that I can get into with my gear and a gopro. I totally agree with you though that playing at lower levels is awful. I used to play in a rookie league of beginners and THAT can make you look foolish pretty easily. Like, PLEASE just shoot the puck hard so I can make an easy save... lol.

So I'm going to need to re-read this a couple times (when I'm actually not at work) to digest it all, however I do have one question on the quoted bit. Can you clarify what you mean? I'm having a hard time visualizing.

This is from pickup on 4/25. I haven't had time (as I mentioned in the above post) to actually edit the video until this morning. Not the best night from a goaltending perspective but a really fun time with the tuesday night guys. This included the birthday celebration of one of our guys who just turned 82. He had photographers there and we had some fun in the first 10 minutes (watch the video!) and got some photos. He had cake afterwards :) He actually had each of us hold up a sign with our name on it and got photos of all of us "for when [he] can't remember who the hell [we] are"

Hi @psulion22, thanks for the reply. Where are you getting that impression from? I'm well aware of the level I'm at and that I'm just a beginner. I definitely don't think I'm good at this (though I DO think I got better at goalie in 6 months than I did as a skater in the 6 years prior to that... I was never good skating out!) I want any and all critiques and suggestions. Some of them will be "yes I know I need to work on that" and some things will be stuff that I didn't notice I was doing. I agree butterfly is one of my biggest issues. And you're right that when it comes time to make a save I'm definitely just doing what I have to do to stop the puck without any regard to technique. Or, to put it another way, the technique hasn't had enough reps yet for it to BECOME the instinctual reaction. The problem I'm having is that no matter how many people tell me the exact same thing (the "drive the knees to the ice" thing) I still can't do it. Even when not pressured and when focusing specifically on that movement. I wish there were better videos on how to do it properly. All the instructional videos just say the same thing and make it sound like its something that should be easy to "just do". You mention to push the hips forward and bring the knees together. The part I'm struggling with is how am I supposed to get my knees together without also getting my feet together? I'm definitely not able to put my knees together with my feet apart. My angles are generally okay as you've said, and depth is not USUALLY a problem, though I do sometimes fall prey to not being in the right place. Even bigger than the butterfly seems to be my general ability to use both sides of my body. For example, while in the butterfly I can use my left foot to push me across the ice. Not very well, and I still can't decide if its that my pads don't slide well or if my technique sucks, but I CAN do it. Going the other direction... not at all. If I can even get my blade planted AT ALL (rare), I just end up spinning. To take it a step further, if I need to get across the ice quickly I can drop my right knee down and push across in one motion, moving left to right. Going the other direction, I can't do it. I literally can't. Again, even during warmups where I'm specifically trying to do it correctly, my brain says to go left knee down first and the body kind of hesitates before going right knee down. I truly can't fathom why I'm having this trouble getting my body to do simple movements. I need to take some video during a stick time or something, but finding the time to go to those is almost impossible. I spend pretty much all day every day at work now... When it comes to games there's obviously no time to work on anything. Pickups I generally try to focus on improving one thing each week but by the half way point my lower back hurts so much I'm just trying to make it through. I also figured out its not actually my back that hurts so much as the complete lack of flexibility is causing my back to take the brunt of every movement. I do appreciate the feedback and will try to work on the flexibility because that's pretty much the cause of all my issues, including the simple butterfly. I haven't been to a pickup since 4/25. It's really more the games though that are the issue since getting scored on and losing the game because I let in a bad goal is really becoming difficult for me to handle mentally. I don't know why. But I really think it's the honeymoon thing like I said. At this point I EXPECT to make those saves. Great goals are one thing but I get really frustrated with myself when I let in something that should be an easy save. A slapshot from the blue line with no traffic should NEVER go in! I'm very slow in my butterfly and in movements in general. I've never been a very good skater so that isn't helping. There are definitely times I'll shuffle on my knees instead of sliding, generally either when I'm tired (in the case of pickup) or when i'm not sure I have enough time to get back up (in games). It's usually in a situation where I'm moving right to left (which I can't do pushes very well for) and don't have enough time to get up. All in all, my flexibility is still killing me. And I'm having a terrible time finding time to work on it. 12 hour days 5-6 days a week at work are brutal. I get home, eat, and go to bed. Rinse, repeat. Hopefully work eventually calms down.

Let's go ahead and get back on topic. There are plenty of other threads to boast about how cool it is to not be fully protected.

Many places require full gear. There's also nothing wrong with it.

Yep everything is built into the skate, which means the footbed is not at all for fit and pretty much just for comfort.

If the skate is 360 custom, the footbed doesn't need to be. I use SIDAS in mine, just because I happened to have them already. I honestly don't really care for them anyway, and they're starting to lose their padding as well.

Usually 11 because that's what my dad wore, or 13 because that's what I used to wear in my baseball playing days. Everyone said it was unlucky so I used to wear it to show it wasn't ;) In goal I wear 29, for Felix Potvin.

That's amazing.

I am a garbage goalie. I don't know where to even start. Strength? Flexibility? Goalie coach? All three? We're trying to save for a house now so not a lot of money to throw around, but even without hiring somebody I just don't know where to start. The honeymoon period where I knew I wasn't very good and it was fine because I was new to the position is over, and now I'm getting frustrated by my play. I'm not used to doing things I'm not good at and I'm really bothered by being this bad. Sometimes I wonder if I actually prefer the idea of being a goalie and having cool pads as opposed to actually getting on the ice and playing. I love hanging out with the guys but going to the rink is starting to be a chore. I'm lost.

Probably true. To be honest I mostly wanted it to fill the space in my Sparx case! ;)

I have one but haven't used it. You're saying the runners vibrate during sharpening while in the blade holder?

I don't think so but can't confirm. I was going to do the same and even had a pair of Makos ready to go, but didn't like the feel of them without the tendon guards so I said screw it and got VH.

Well that's what happens when you surround them with good line mates and better coaching I guess. Kadri was super iffy under previous coaches but Babcock has really turned him into a solid player.

I didn't think of that part. Have to wonder if it's just Chicago making sure they get something for a player that may be ending up in vegas anyway?

Gorgeous. Jets have easily one of the top 3 third jerseys in the league.

Looking back now, I'm happy they made this deal.

Off-season transactions starting early. http://www.tsn.ca/hurricanes-acquire-rights-to-darling-from-blackhawks-1.738030 I guess this means Crawford will be sticking around, and that Lack isn't the answer in Carolina when Ward is done. Darling and Lack on the same team will make for one of the best looking goalie gear duos in the league, though!

You're a full wrong? I can't help you...

Had pretty good pickup last Tuesday. Unfortunately the video is a bit washed out for some reason. Dirty lens? I also somehow managed to include the first clip from last time, and really can't be bothered re-exporting it. Following that, I had a horrible game last night. Lost 7-3 I believe. Everything went in. At least 4 of those goals were deflections on pucks I was screened on. I even let a slapshot go in from the blue line. I HATE shots along the ice. I also had some dipshit snow me after I covered a dump-in, when it was 6-2 at the time. TBH it felt kind of good though.. lol.

Hmm maybe there is hope for us Mako wearers of finding a retail skate that fits!