Designs include John Gibson's nod to Pac-Man, Jonathan Quick's support for Green Berets
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Showing posts with label goalies. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
I Want To See This Glow In The Dark
Goalies show off World Cup masks
Designs include John Gibson's nod to Pac-Man, Jonathan Quick's support for Green Berets
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Designs include John Gibson's nod to Pac-Man, Jonathan Quick's support for Green Berets
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Monday, July 18, 2016
Goalies Made A Name For Themselves In 2016
Evgeny Kuznetsov tops NHL Network's breakout players
3. Martin Jones, G, San Jose Sharks
Jones won the Stanley Cup as Jonathan Quick's backup with the Los Angeles Kings in 2014, but played 34 games in his first two NHL seasons. After he was traded to the Boston Bruins and then to the Sharks before the 2015 draft, Jones became a starter for the first time in his NHL career and was outstanding.
Jones, 26, went 37-23-4 with a 2.27 goals-against average, .918 save percentage and six shutouts in 65 games. He finished third in the League in wins, ninth in save percentage and tied for second in shutouts. Jones helped the Sharks to the their first Stanley Cup Final, going 14-10 with a 2.16 GAA, .923 save percentage and three shutouts in 24 playoff games.
5. Matt Murray, G, Pittsburgh Penguins
Murray, who turned 22 during the Stanley Cup Playoffs, topped off his rookie season by helping to lead the Penguins to the championship. He went 15-6 with a 2.08 goals-against average, .923 save percentage and one shutout in the playoffs, allowing two goals or fewer in 13 of 21 starts.
During the regular season, the highly-touted prospect was recalled several times from Wilkes/Barre-Scranton of the American Hockey League and went 9-2-1 in 13 games with a 2.00 GAA and a .930 save percentage.
7. John Gibson, G, Anaheim Ducks
In his third season with the Ducks, Gibson started nearly half of their games (38) and had a 21-13-4 record with four shutouts. Gibson also had a 2.07 GAA, tied for second among qualifying goaltenders, and a .920 save percentage.
Gibson allowed two goals or fewer in 26 of 40 appearances and had winning streaks of four and five games during the regular season. He made two starts in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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3. Martin Jones, G, San Jose Sharks
Jones won the Stanley Cup as Jonathan Quick's backup with the Los Angeles Kings in 2014, but played 34 games in his first two NHL seasons. After he was traded to the Boston Bruins and then to the Sharks before the 2015 draft, Jones became a starter for the first time in his NHL career and was outstanding.
Jones, 26, went 37-23-4 with a 2.27 goals-against average, .918 save percentage and six shutouts in 65 games. He finished third in the League in wins, ninth in save percentage and tied for second in shutouts. Jones helped the Sharks to the their first Stanley Cup Final, going 14-10 with a 2.16 GAA, .923 save percentage and three shutouts in 24 playoff games.
5. Matt Murray, G, Pittsburgh Penguins
Murray, who turned 22 during the Stanley Cup Playoffs, topped off his rookie season by helping to lead the Penguins to the championship. He went 15-6 with a 2.08 goals-against average, .923 save percentage and one shutout in the playoffs, allowing two goals or fewer in 13 of 21 starts.
During the regular season, the highly-touted prospect was recalled several times from Wilkes/Barre-Scranton of the American Hockey League and went 9-2-1 in 13 games with a 2.00 GAA and a .930 save percentage.
7. John Gibson, G, Anaheim Ducks
In his third season with the Ducks, Gibson started nearly half of their games (38) and had a 21-13-4 record with four shutouts. Gibson also had a 2.07 GAA, tied for second among qualifying goaltenders, and a .920 save percentage.
Gibson allowed two goals or fewer in 26 of 40 appearances and had winning streaks of four and five games during the regular season. He made two starts in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
(NHL.com)
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Did You Know - Matt Murray Edition
5 things you didn't know about Penguins' Murray
Pittsburgh rookie goaltender late bloomer turned playoff hero
3. He holds the American Hockey League record for longest shutout streak, at 304 minutes, 11 seconds, during the 2014-15 season. His streak included four consecutive shutouts, and he came 1:11 shy of a fifth straight. He broke the previous record, held by Barry Brust, by about 37 minutes.
5. Murray plays guitar in his spare time, and music runs in the family. His brother, Mike, plays guitar in the Toronto-based band Earth's Yellow Sun and is a guitar instructor at the Arcadia Academy of Music in Woodbridge, Ontario.
Complete list (NHL.com)
Pittsburgh rookie goaltender late bloomer turned playoff hero
3. He holds the American Hockey League record for longest shutout streak, at 304 minutes, 11 seconds, during the 2014-15 season. His streak included four consecutive shutouts, and he came 1:11 shy of a fifth straight. He broke the previous record, held by Barry Brust, by about 37 minutes.
5. Murray plays guitar in his spare time, and music runs in the family. His brother, Mike, plays guitar in the Toronto-based band Earth's Yellow Sun and is a guitar instructor at the Arcadia Academy of Music in Woodbridge, Ontario.
Complete list (NHL.com)
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Can Quick Take Home The Vezina?
Bishop, Holtby, Quick voted Vezina Trophy finalists
Winner will be announced during 2016 NHL Awards on June 22
- Quick led all NHL goaltenders in appearances (68), starts (68) and minutes (4,034), and ranked second in wins (40), fifth in saves (1,671) and tied for fifth in shutouts (5) in 2015-16. He became the first Kings goaltender to reach 40 wins in a season, breaking his own club record (39, 2009-10). The Milford, Conn., native recorded his 41st career shutout March 14 at Chicago, passing Frank Brimsek (Eveleth, Minn.) and John Vanbiesbrouck (Detroit, Mich.) - both with 40 - for the most by a U.S.-born goaltender in NHL history. Quick is a Vezina finalist for the second time after a second-place finish in 2011-12.
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
The Way Of Roy
Patrick Roy: the modern NHL’s most influential player?
But there is no player who has had the impact on hockey like Patrick Roy has during the last three decades. If you watch any game, on any night, you will see Roy hallmarks more than any you might associate with Orr or Gretzky, and it is not even close.
For the simple reason that Roy, you might say, brought modern goalies to their knees. In a good way. From an efficacy standpoint. Aesthetically—well, there might be some grumbling there.
Roy's game is now essentially the game of every goalie in the league, and if you want to score, you better love yourself some deflections, some dirty goals, rebounds and scrambles, and have a knack for putting the puck just under the bar, because shots have a hard time gaining sweet ingress otherwise. Goalies, the criticism goes, don’t make saves any more, they let the puck hit them. And they’re better at that than ever.
(SI.com)
But there is no player who has had the impact on hockey like Patrick Roy has during the last three decades. If you watch any game, on any night, you will see Roy hallmarks more than any you might associate with Orr or Gretzky, and it is not even close.
For the simple reason that Roy, you might say, brought modern goalies to their knees. In a good way. From an efficacy standpoint. Aesthetically—well, there might be some grumbling there.
Roy's game is now essentially the game of every goalie in the league, and if you want to score, you better love yourself some deflections, some dirty goals, rebounds and scrambles, and have a knack for putting the puck just under the bar, because shots have a hard time gaining sweet ingress otherwise. Goalies, the criticism goes, don’t make saves any more, they let the puck hit them. And they’re better at that than ever.
(SI.com)
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
A Damn Good Sports Question Finally Answered - Hockey Edition
When nature calls a goalie
First, netminders wear more equipment than any athlete in any major professional team sport. They are buried in pads, straps, hooks, knots, buckles and buttons, plus jerseys that are baggy enough to pitch as campsite tents. Goaltenders are also uniquely needed on the field of play for an entire game, a requirement to which only soccer players can relate. No sneaking away between shifts like skaters or ducking into the dugout bathroom between innings as baseball players do.
And since Don Cherry once called him the NHL’s smartest goaltender, it’s only fitting that Turco would lend his expertise to the last word in this sophisticated discussion.
“I really enjoy when even non-goalies put on goalie gear just to appreciate how hard it is to move, how tiring it is to go up and down with that crap on,” Turco says. “I think inevitably, one or two of them always says, ‘Uhhh, what happens if you’ve got to take a s---?” And you’re like, ‘Yeah, don’t s---.’ That’s why we’re smarter than the rest of you guys, because we think about this stuff all the time.”
(SI.com)
First, netminders wear more equipment than any athlete in any major professional team sport. They are buried in pads, straps, hooks, knots, buckles and buttons, plus jerseys that are baggy enough to pitch as campsite tents. Goaltenders are also uniquely needed on the field of play for an entire game, a requirement to which only soccer players can relate. No sneaking away between shifts like skaters or ducking into the dugout bathroom between innings as baseball players do.
And since Don Cherry once called him the NHL’s smartest goaltender, it’s only fitting that Turco would lend his expertise to the last word in this sophisticated discussion.
“I really enjoy when even non-goalies put on goalie gear just to appreciate how hard it is to move, how tiring it is to go up and down with that crap on,” Turco says. “I think inevitably, one or two of them always says, ‘Uhhh, what happens if you’ve got to take a s---?” And you’re like, ‘Yeah, don’t s---.’ That’s why we’re smarter than the rest of you guys, because we think about this stuff all the time.”
(SI.com)
Thursday, November 19, 2015
They Need To See Some Action, Too
Unmasked: More shots the better for NHL goalies
Although it makes sense that facing 20 shots should be easier than trying to stop 35, most NHL goaltenders will tell you that isn't necessarily the case.
"I don't think you can understand unless you are a goalie, and it's easy to say, but it's true," St. Louis Blues goaltender Jake Allen said. "Ask any goalie; it is tougher when you are getting 15 or 19 shots a game instead of 35 to 40. You get in a rhythm, you get a feel for it, you understand your game a little better, understand your system a little better. It makes everything a lot easier."
As counterintuitive as that may sound, and as difficult as it may be to quantify for a position that already gives the analytics crowd fits, the Capitals' biggest concern about Holtby early last season was how he'd adjust to seeing fewer shots behind the stingier system implemented by new coach Barry Trotz.
Goaltenders who play a more active style tend to also be more reliant on rhythm and timing, something that can be harder to find when you're not as busy.
Tightening up Holtby's movements wasn't a problem for Washington goaltending coach Mitch Korn, but adjusting to fewer shots isn't easily fixed with drills designed to re-program muscle memory. Longer periods between saves tests the muscle between the ears instead.
(NHL.com)
Although it makes sense that facing 20 shots should be easier than trying to stop 35, most NHL goaltenders will tell you that isn't necessarily the case.
"I don't think you can understand unless you are a goalie, and it's easy to say, but it's true," St. Louis Blues goaltender Jake Allen said. "Ask any goalie; it is tougher when you are getting 15 or 19 shots a game instead of 35 to 40. You get in a rhythm, you get a feel for it, you understand your game a little better, understand your system a little better. It makes everything a lot easier."
As counterintuitive as that may sound, and as difficult as it may be to quantify for a position that already gives the analytics crowd fits, the Capitals' biggest concern about Holtby early last season was how he'd adjust to seeing fewer shots behind the stingier system implemented by new coach Barry Trotz.
Goaltenders who play a more active style tend to also be more reliant on rhythm and timing, something that can be harder to find when you're not as busy.
Tightening up Holtby's movements wasn't a problem for Washington goaltending coach Mitch Korn, but adjusting to fewer shots isn't easily fixed with drills designed to re-program muscle memory. Longer periods between saves tests the muscle between the ears instead.
(NHL.com)
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Goalie's Are Getting A New Edge In Footwear
Unmasked: New skates giving goalies an edge
VANCOUVER -- From revised training methods to new techniques and tactics, NHL goaltenders are constantly looking for anything that will give them an edge on shooters.
The latest evolution in goalie skates is giving some that edge -- literally.
New models from Bauer and from VH Footwear, a small skate company based in Winnipeg, have taken the hard plastic cowling off goaltender skates, removing the extra layer that used to wrap around the front edge of the boot and provide an extra air gap around the toe. The result is a thinner profile across the width of the foot and less material on the inside edge below the big toe, which allows a goaltender to dig in his blade at more extreme angles before that inside of the skate boot makes contact with the ice, which can cause him to lose that edge and slip out.
This means a goalie can hold his inside edge better from a lower, wider stance and still be able to push laterally with power. It also makes it easier to establish a good edge when he is down on his knees and wants to push side to side.
(NHL.com)
VANCOUVER -- From revised training methods to new techniques and tactics, NHL goaltenders are constantly looking for anything that will give them an edge on shooters.
The latest evolution in goalie skates is giving some that edge -- literally.
New models from Bauer and from VH Footwear, a small skate company based in Winnipeg, have taken the hard plastic cowling off goaltender skates, removing the extra layer that used to wrap around the front edge of the boot and provide an extra air gap around the toe. The result is a thinner profile across the width of the foot and less material on the inside edge below the big toe, which allows a goaltender to dig in his blade at more extreme angles before that inside of the skate boot makes contact with the ice, which can cause him to lose that edge and slip out.
This means a goalie can hold his inside edge better from a lower, wider stance and still be able to push laterally with power. It also makes it easier to establish a good edge when he is down on his knees and wants to push side to side.
(NHL.com)
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