Great work as always, Jimmy. I found this discussion particularly useful, because a few years back I was having a lot of trouble with left hand shooters coming down the left wing and beating me short side. often from much closer to the boards than on this play. Very embarrassing. The problem I was having is that I was not playing enough of an overlap. Knowing what a left handed shooter would see from that position, I didn't want to show him a lot of that far side. Unfortunately, as a result of not seeing anything far side, they'd just put it short side, and it kept beating me. I was getting very frustrated because, 1, getting beat short side just sucks, but 2, I just felt like the angle they were shooting from was so poor that those short side shots should be easy saves. I finally figured out that I needed to play more of an overlap, and that mitigated a lot of those bad goals.. After watching this video, I think another issue I was having is that I was flattening too much AND not playing enough of an overlap, so I was opening up all sorts of short side weaknesses.
@@221522 awesome comment! The idea of a step to cover short side and rotating the far side shoulder OUT rather than flattening it can help with that issue. At lower levels it very consistently caused a far side high shot that I could be keyed in on. CAM was flatter than normal in this play meaning far side really was wide open, but he should have been aware of that. I think every goalie finds a different way here. I tend to over cover short side and rotate my shoulder out when my far side is my glove as in confident with my glove more than my blocker. On the other side I play pucks square a little more.
@@Jbeen3596 I eventually realized the wisdom of over covering short side when that's my blocker, and trusting my glove hand to make up for the more exposed far side. I wasn't having an issue with right handed shooters coming down the right wing because I was naturally playing more square, and my glove was doing a better job covering that short side. When I was in my early years of minor hockey I used to cheat really hard to my blocker side, knowing my glove hand could cover what I was leaving exposed on that side. This worked really well in those early years when kids just couldn't shoot the puck that hard. As the shots got faster, I was able to get away with that less and less.
@@EluneMusic possible but I’ll always give a NHL goalie my trust if the play they’re making looks possible and not completely incorrect. So let’s hope he knew what he was doing and just misexecuted lol. Otherwise it means he was just off his angle for no reason.
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Loved this! I hadn’t thought about the difference in perspective of where the shooter’s eyes are vs where the puck is before.
Great work as always, Jimmy. I found this discussion particularly useful, because a few years back I was having a lot of trouble with left hand shooters coming down the left wing and beating me short side. often from much closer to the boards than on this play. Very embarrassing. The problem I was having is that I was not playing enough of an overlap. Knowing what a left handed shooter would see from that position, I didn't want to show him a lot of that far side. Unfortunately, as a result of not seeing anything far side, they'd just put it short side, and it kept beating me. I was getting very frustrated because, 1, getting beat short side just sucks, but 2, I just felt like the angle they were shooting from was so poor that those short side shots should be easy saves. I finally figured out that I needed to play more of an overlap, and that mitigated a lot of those bad goals.. After watching this video, I think another issue I was having is that I was flattening too much AND not playing enough of an overlap, so I was opening up all sorts of short side weaknesses.
@@221522 awesome comment! The idea of a step to cover short side and rotating the far side shoulder OUT rather than flattening it can help with that issue. At lower levels it very consistently caused a far side high shot that I could be keyed in on. CAM was flatter than normal in this play meaning far side really was wide open, but he should have been aware of that. I think every goalie finds a different way here. I tend to over cover short side and rotate my shoulder out when my far side is my glove as in confident with my glove more than my blocker. On the other side I play pucks square a little more.
@@Jbeen3596 I eventually realized the wisdom of over covering short side when that's my blocker, and trusting my glove hand to make up for the more exposed far side.
I wasn't having an issue with right handed shooters coming down the right wing because I was naturally playing more square, and my glove was doing a better job covering that short side.
When I was in my early years of minor hockey I used to cheat really hard to my blocker side, knowing my glove hand could cover what I was leaving exposed on that side. This worked really well in those early years when kids just couldn't shoot the puck that hard. As the shots got faster, I was able to get away with that less and less.
What are the odds he just didn’t realize he was overlapping near side that much
@@EluneMusic possible but I’ll always give a NHL goalie my trust if the play they’re making looks possible and not completely incorrect. So let’s hope he knew what he was doing and just misexecuted lol. Otherwise it means he was just off his angle for no reason.
He needs to try the free trial elvis did lol