As a goalie I can say that we absolutely hate facing odd pucks. We’ll face 3-4 of these a night normally, and if the puck has ~1% chance of going in, you can do the math that every 25-35 games one will find it’s way in and there’s very little you can do about it. The fact that it’s not impossible combined with it’s unfortunate frequency in most games means we can’t exactly avoid these mishaps. Nobody cares when you save 99 of them, they only care when you don’t save 1.
Yup, I remember having a good stretch of games in a ball hockey tournament and it felt like I could do no wrong… till we lost our knockout game because it took a weird bounce off my blocker and slowly went in. I saved over 75 shots in those three games and I only let in five goals in that span but I still got to shoulder the blame when I could have easily called out my teammates for their play. I had teammates, afraid to block shots, try to blindly block shots when they’re just impeding my vision. I had teammates that were slower than the top line of most teams in that tournament. Everybody blames me for that one bad goal when they probably don’t realize that it was hard for me to even get us that far with what I had to work with.
@@ghost-whitesand9447 the other part of goaltending is a beautiful contrast from being a player in terms of your team. When it’s an important game, or important moments happen, you’re the furthest person on the ice for your teams victories and the closest person to the failures. The overtime loss? You’re the final person the other team beat before it’s over. Your team wins? They all congratulate the game winner at the other end of the ice. They’ll never have your back on a bad goal but they’ll only “WHOOAAA” for a second when you make a great save. Toughest position in all of sports.
@@Mordecai478Maliks goal was basic af. He shot the puck with his stick between his legs. Big whoop, every NHLer could do that. What Datsyuk did is next level.
@tino6176 As a Leafs fan, this will be the one thing fellow Leafs fans will remember most. Like you said, it's happened to so many others, but a lot of those guys had many more positives with their respective teams than Toskala did.
I used to play a lot of table soccer and loved making quick movements in front of the goal with the forward line and then casually and slowly kicking the ball into the goal. Most of the opponents then frantically pulled their goalibar back and forth, but mostly managed to get past the slowly rolling ball. Of all my trickshots, this was my favorite, as long as you didn't do it too often with the same opponents! - greetings to Kucharov! :)
@@blarbkanopcious4243 nothing wild. with the striker the ball extremely sideways against the boards and from there deflected into the goal, or step over, simply or twice. Clamped the ball with the striker and instead of shooting then let the ball fly into the goal with downward pressure, there are a lot of things, but a lot of things can't really be explained very well without visual aids, maybe there are YT videos, idk. :) I played in the Bundesliga in Germany (DTFB) and was unfortunately much stronger in defense/goalkeeping than in midfield or forward, so I had to play there a lot more often. But there were also funny options, for example kicking the ball backwards next to your own goal with the defensive line, picking up the rebound with the goalkeeper and maneuvering the ball again against the boards in such a way that the goalkeeper balances the ball horizontally on his foot, then a quick turn forward and the ball flies over the lines of friend and enemy and with luck it lands in the opponent's goal. However, this trick was then banned in the Bundesliga because it was probably not acceptable that the ball was _no longer on the table during the flight phase._ Oh really?! :( Otherwise, speed, control and very good hand-eye coordination are the most important things. Unfortunately, it's been a few years since I last played with any real ambition. I hope I haven't annoyed you with this endless answer. Greetings!
One thing I love about this video is how at some points, one clip shows a team being scored on and the next is that team scoring the goal. If that was intentional, I love that style of editing. Great video as always my friend
If you do another edition of this, you should include the goal by Buffalo's Tage Thompson against Chicago on March 28, 2022, when he broke his stick on a shot on goal and the puck hit the backboard, came back out to hit the goalie and go in for the winner with just seconds to go in the game!
The most reassuring thing about this video as an amateur hockey player myself, is that there are some vezina winning goalies featured quite a bit in these clips.
Forgot if this was Oilers game, but there was one where a player took a shot from the point, but god a bad stick on it, and it just slowly roles past all the players and past the goalie, curious if anyone has a link to that one.
Gotta say slow shots absolutely suck, especially when you play with faster shooters. Went from playing for a varsity team and playing for Junior B at the same time. It conditioned me to struggle with the slower shooters, even though Varsity is much worse.
As a goaltender, there is absolutely nothing worse than a flipping bouncing puck. They can change direction so incredibly unpredictably and sometimes you just cannot change the momentum of your predicted movement to react in time. It’s awful. Whole reason they call these goals a bad/lucky bounce.
You missed the 75 ft lob on Mike Smith, in the 2nd round of the 2022 playoffs against Calgary...as an EDM fan, that one was hard to watch even when it happened...LOL.
These hurt so much to watch lol. This is my fear in every game, that I'm gonna let in a stupid slow one lol Some of these you can't blame the goalie tho. Bouncing pucks absolutely suck, and you can't read a shot that wasn't even supposed to happen.
@@leifopstad2972 100% I had a BAD one happen just last year. Shot/pass from center, not bouncing or rolling at all, etc. Went to play it and totally whiffed on the puck, it barely had enough speed to cross the line but still made it. Just awful
@@DeltaHighlightsbeen really good recently! Getting a new kitten Sunday :D great to be back, and I’m excited for the upcoming season too! Great to hear from you ^^
