::Introduction::I tell any new goalies that I meet that the first 3 months are the hardest ever. I’m a former athlete (swimmer) and played goalie in soccer growing up. But starting out goalie in ice hockey was a completely different experience. I’ll whine about starting out in this post, so that in the next post I can list some great goalie resources and web sites. Once again, time to thank Jason Molenda for taking the following photo. Wrapping up a great season with a couple of great teams. Below is our Tuesday night team, the Nomads, posed in front of the (puff-paint) painted “Stanley Keg”. It was an exciting game….complete with a tieing goal with 90 seconds remaining. After a short overtime, we went into shoot-out, with each goalie letting in 1 apiece after 3 shooters. The 4th shooter settled the matter…..and we took the Keg. Go team!
Today’s rant is a little about recipes. We’ll make this one short and to the point and really just hammer on specific part — the order of ingredients. Today, we’ll discuss one of those less-than-obvious things about being a goalie (and player, too perhaps). ::Background::While I have short hair, I’m currently sporting the (out-of-style) spiky look. To get said spiky look one has to use product. Not a lot, mind you, but some reasonably stiff hair gel of sorts. Continue reading Goalie Thoughts: I Has A Flavor Sorry about this, but today’s goalie thought gets a little touchy feely. I only ask that you not laugh at me too hard — I’m sensitive that way and, after all, I’m doing you the favor of letting you into the dark cobwebby corners of my twisted mind. Continue reading Goalie Thoughts: Petting the Monkey We goalies get called a lot of things, some of them congratulatory, some of them not so much… here’s a random list of things I’ve been called or had said to me(recents and additions at the top). last updated: March 27 2009
Updated: 10/28/2008 This goalie thought is a little insight into how some of us cope with the numbers in lights on the end of the rink. Yes, the score. You see, the score might determine who wins or loses, but it doesn’t tell the story of how it got that way. Nor does it tell the story of how any one team member played. I’ve had some of my best games in net on the losing side of the battle — there is only so much you can do. So, in talking with other goalies, I’ve noticed how certain goals bother us more than others. We discount certain goals in our own heads (sure, they are real and they go up on the board). In fact, you can go as far a to say that we goalies have our own way of keeping score. The higher the point value, the worse our performance, kind of like the other team’s goal count (we like low numbers, eh?). So, here goes. Continue reading Goalie Thoughts: How Goalies Keep Score Time to start putting down some of my ramblings as an ice hockey goalie. Now, I can’t say I’m any good at being a goalie (although the Sharks are going to invite me training camp this year for sure!) or that I’ve been playing for very long (just barely 3 years now), but I can say that I’ve been averaging 3 – 5 games per week and that’s a lot of time spent sitting back there in my little crease with nothing to do but think and occasionally get in the way of frozen rubber. Every goalie I have met is a little bit “different” (at least that is what we tell ourselves), and we all seem to have various coping mechanisms for the good and the bad times. For instance, imagine hanging out with the guy who put 3 goals in against ya — he’s bragging about scoring 3 measly goals forgetting that you stoned him on his 15 other shots. I am going to start up a little themed series of Goalie Thoughts. Some of these thoughts will be discussions I have had with other goalies and others will be musings. I’ve got a few ideas in mind, and I’ve been meaning to post them for quite some time. Keep in mind that by no means are any of them “authoritative”, but they may be good reads into the mind of yours truly and how this particular goalie copes. Happy reading! Once again, time to thank Jason Molenda for taking the following photos. Time for a lesson in humility. I was sure it went in! Once again, time to thank Jason Molenda for taking the following photos. Randy has had strings where I simply couldn’t stop his shots. This time, however, he provided me with a little assistance. Thanks, Randy! |
