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6 minutes ago, Chenner29 said:

You kind of answered your own question here, see bold

Generally you want to be flat on both edges on both feet when cutting around your crease, makes movement easier on your body
Once you've committed on your edges, you've essentially committed to the shot
You're creating an extra step for yourself if there the puck carrier makes any adjustments, or an option opens up late for them

Having both a relaxed/tracking stance and a shot ready stance helps
Practice moving around in a relaxed stance, then when the puck is in a dangerous area or you feel a shot is coming, snap your feet outwards into a shot ready stance

All 3 core skating techniques are a push-pull movement with your lower body (T-push, shuffle, C-cut).  Given your example

• weight on R skate and on the balls of both feet
• push off R, weight shift to L and L lands at destination, pull your trail leg back to set. 
• toes square to puck entire time, but follow the curved top edge of the crease so you remain square when puck is between the faceoff dots
• adjust your feet accordingly once puck dips to the halfwall, bad angle, dead angle zones as you don't need to be as square to fill up more net

Sounds like a muscle memory thing to me.  Work on tracking rebounds properly (eyes-head-hands) and chase rebounds in any type of warmup/practice environment you can

Generally speaking on ice you don't need to dive when you can slide, as it keeps you in better position and is easier to regain your feet
Also generally speaking when in doubt retreat to post on these bang-bang plays, you can always bump off it if the play goes the other way

Your eyes-head-hands help you center on the new angle, so get those square first and the rest of your body will follow.  Drive your push leg up toward chest as you plant your foot.  Then push to fill the new space. Lead with a leg to cover low and jam a hand down and forward, like a wave coming down over the puck

The closer you can keep your push leg to your body's center line, the more power you can generate and gives the steel better attack angle through the duration of the push before your boot bottoms out

Edit

Here's a vid

 

Did you have to turn it into a Thesus?! Geeze.   I like Dahan but dude is so fired up in his videos. I wonder how many Red Bulls he drinks before each session?  

4 minutes ago, OldSchoolGoalie said:

For inline I always skated out and never played deep. When the play was developing you would never see me on the goal line, I was always skating to the top of my crease and further (depending on rules - some places wont allow a goalie to leave the top of the crease). Then I would match the speed as I went backwards keeping that distance to cut off the angle. Ball hockey I played out a bit but not too far because I cannot run backwards. When I first started playing inline I played deep and it was pretty much an open net for the most part. I'm trying to do the same with Ice Hockey by going out more and being aggressive, but my lateral movements are so poor right now I'll need to fix it with shuffles.

The part about dropping left or right or even diving might just be due to not being used to the surface (ice), and the fear of over sliding or something. Oddly enough if someone is in my crease I actually drop with less thought once they're close enough. No idea why I freeze up otherwise.

It will come to you, you'll see. When I subbed in a ball hockey game in the gym some years ago, I completely forgot i wasn't on ice and tried to do a butterfly slide on a breakaway shot, keeled over like a a Kremlin statue LOLLL.

@CPage I might of seen that video but forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder. My accident happened at work, a freak one that could of been a whole mess of bad that I was fortunate enough to not go through. My physiotherapist is great, she understands what I do for sports and the demands involved. I'm happy that I don't have to go under the knife. Will it be permanent? I doubt it. It just seems to take forever.

Good news is that I was able to do some moderate squats and deadlifts at the gym yesterday so, I'm gaining some ground on my ankle dorsiflexion  

Ice goaltending is so much less restrictive in my opinion. I can relate your inline with my street hockey or ball hockey in my childhood. Movements are more restricted and less fluid because you can't slide down from one side to another, it's all mostly stepping and playing your angles/depth really well.

With your size, you most likely learned how to position yourself to the best of your ability. On ice, you get the advantage of following the puck laterally without turning forcefully and losing space or coverage. For the most part, practice makes perfect and you'll eventually get the hang of it. Visualisation helps quite a bit. Break down the movement in steps, ex. step 1, transfer load on push leg, step 2, bend knee on sliding leg, step 3, de-engage skate blade, step 4, follow through with shoulder/hips/gloves/stick in one motion.

If your ice time is pure shinny, you have lots of opportunities to mess around and try stuff with little impact on the game (minus the 1 or 2 ego heads). 

28 minutes ago, jayluv54 said:

Glad I found this thread, was just about to post asking where all the old guys were at...lol.  I've been out since right before Covid and looking to make a comeback @ 42.  It won't be my first comeback, but I know it will be the hardest as I haven't touched ice in over 3 years and when I turned 40, everything seemed to head downhill fast.  Covid has really made me lazy and I feel like right now I miss hockey more than anything and need it as a motivator to care more about my nutrition and fitness.  Not that I will play competitively, but we all know how a shitty performance gets us thinking about what we can do to be better.

So what is the equivalent of a 401K in Canada? Is it a RRSP or a TFSA or other?

When the general public gets into historical shop talk about goalie gear, it's usually from the golden years straight up to the now. There's a lot of crazy stuff and dirty laundry in between that quite a few of us older cats can spit about with humour and horror, hence all that you're reading about in this thread.

5 hours ago, ThatCarGuy said:

No idea how we missed this. Olof Lindbom played in the Rangers preseason on Thursday with a warrior glove, blocker, and helmet. To be fair he played for an SHL team before the Rangers.

To add to this I also pulled apart my G5 glove to figure out why warrior gloves are so good and frankly I'm still confused. They've made it very easy to line up parts but not sure why  the padding is so thin yet so effective.

Surprised the equipment manager didn't try a switch on him for the game

3 hours ago, WillyGrips13 said:

You would think that teams would tell marginal cusp goalies, “Just get white equipment, you’ll likely not be here much longer.” Those pads with super-detailed graphics have been rendered obsolete already by his move. 

I'm sure those will go for a good penny online or at the team's salvation sale.

The older gang will remember this one: the company that came out with removable/interchangeable fronts of your pads. I thought it was a cool idea but his product got raped pretty bad by the community and for no good reason really. I would of like to see it take off for a bit.

Lexan thigh boards...ugh

The Onezie goalie helmet. It still hasn't made the market and I wonder if it ever will.

The recent floating steel thread cage built by that engineer...Singh? Points for trying but, no, sorry.

The Flex Martin blocker. Ingenuity or preposterous nonsense? 

Kevlar layers in gear. They do know that "stopping bullets" is just a figure of speech, right?

"The Nut Buddy" made famous by our GSBB's Timberwolfe. Game changer or just game "chamber"?

Christians odd shaped curved stick for better paddledowns. They were ok, sometimes.

1 hour ago, insertnamehere said:

I've been getting a few too many stingers lately, but I don't want to change my glove.

Found this product on Amazon and will give it a go this evening. 

Jukka at Goalie Pro came out with this one a couple years ago.

https://www.hockeymonkey.ca/goaliepro-goalie-accessories-padded-underglove-sr.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwkOqZBhDNARIsAACsbfJTe5g99zdT65GVC5RygyLH952nwz5WYlzHYanVe130FJDHPAlyqyoaAvv2EALw_wcB#1053=70631&1054=75857

Also found this one.

https://www.thehockeyshop.com/products/lizard-skins-senior-padded-inner-glove

13 minutes ago, GoalieInTheDesertYT said:

How no one mentioned this yet is beyond me 

Saw this on Instagram. At first glance I thought I was looking at a Mckenney XPG2 set

Would of been cool.

SOLD!!

This...can you really make money off of debt?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjIlm7xjEvm/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

On 9/29/2022 at 12:12 PM, chakal said:

I bet all those pictures of TT were taken during the same game! LOL

OMG, he's back! Not TT but our @chakal brother  

22 hours ago, jerd31 said:

Carter Hart’s Foo Fighters themed mask…

 

 

Guess it could’ve been worse- he could have chosen to do a Nickelback theme…

I'll take Foo Fighters over Nickleback anytime!!

3 hours ago, Math. said:

The design isn't new, the guy just builds them stronger than any other one.  Some people will argue it's good, some will argue it's bad.  Bottom line is, try one for yourself, I personally bought one and loved it so much I bought 4 more and now swear by them.  Every mask that enters my rotation gets one by default.

Not arguing. I had one made for my Reidic. When I get my hands on a Coveted, I'll do the same.

8 minutes ago, A.YOUNGoalie13 said:

All I know is Hiller had it first in like 2012

New to my knowledge. Thanks for the info.

14 hours ago, A.YOUNGoalie13 said:

That is just an open mouth cat eye I got off of goalieparts I don’t believe they are custom its the one that was designed by and for Jonas Hiller

So it looks like OTNY got inspired by Grilles Anges Gardien...hmmm.

Easiest approach, put some ads up in rinks "looking for some ice time" or search groups on Facebook that focus in your city. Once you get out there, if you're a level headed guy, word will spread and you'll get some calls here and there and maybe even become a regular for one of them. 

The drop ins you mention always finish with one too many a goalie and it gets complicated let alone frustrating and some like to argue, so...not my cup of tea.

2 hours ago, A.YOUNGoalie13 said:

New cage looks way better than my old silver one

Marco makes a solid cage!

2 hours ago, CJ Boiss said:

These days, young adults are ridiculously lucky to spend less than half their paycheck on housing alone. Setting aside a full eighth of their pay for investments is damn near a pipe dream.

I agree with how easy they can have it but most expect a free handout and still don't want to pick their own pockets. I see people nearly half my age driving BMWs, owning a house and travelling the world. Where the frig did I go wrong?!

It's common fact that the Canadian saving system is different than that of the US, right? Or are there cross border similarities?

8 minutes ago, ZeroGravitas said:

They really did a great job with the shading - it really looks as if the pad as knee rolls. As I scrolled by, I thought this was an old photo from 2010-2011 until I looked closely.

I'd definitely get a copy of my Reactor 6000s I sold last year.

26 minutes ago, johncho said:

It's finally here and they look almost brand new. 

I just have to find some ice time now, I'm currently fully booked with life.

I can feed you some connections if you're looking to pic and choose when you can play. PM/DM me if interested. All in Ottawa. I'm hurt and I appreciate that they keep looking me up for updates, but in the meantime, you know...

3 hours ago, RecoveringGoalie1 said:

Anything that appears too good to be true, likely is. Crypto is a classic example of this - grandiose promises of unheard of returns with no actual utility to the underlying coins that are being hawked by grifters. It's a zero sum game that is a form of gambling at its heart. For every dollar someone makes out of crypto, someone had to lose that dollar in the first place. You'll see the stories of people who made millions, but they don't mention those millions came from thousands of individuals who bought high and sold low to enable that person to make their millions. Nothing is 'created' by crypto in terms of new money, it's existing money chasing impossible returns and there will be winners and losers. Odds are you will end up on the losing side, statistically speaking.

If you're not incredibly financially literate, using debt in an attempt to become wealthy is highly inadvisable and is a great path towards ending up bankrupt and in debt for the rest of your life. Unfortunately the days of a single income person working an average job and being able to comfortably buy a home, cars, have kids, and so on are well behind us.

The best way to get ahead is to invest into yourself. Whether that's education to stand out as a candidate or to fill a niche, starting a small business, working towards a promotion at work, or going to do jobs that pay well but aren't popular such as Oil and Gas, or mining camps that you need to fly in and fly out of and work 3 weeks straight. If you can get a government/city job with a pension, you're ahead of most people and are more or less set for life.

In terms of growing wealth the two primary ways to do it that are low risk but require significant investments of capital are investing into broad index funds (I'm a big fan of VEQT from Vanguard, but any S&P 500 index tracker will do), and investing into real estate. The caveat being that either path requires capital in the first place for it to grow. 5% a year on $500 won't get you far, but 5% a year on 100K+ over many years will make a significant difference down the line.

Been listening to some Gary Vee to?  

I don't understand half of what y'all have written, but I'm digging it  

I need a lucky break with the lottery