Especially when you compare him to the other goalies in the pix. Looks like the guy who initiated the rule change got screwed as a reward! I hope he gets them remeasured cause his knees look way too exposed. Check out this pic:.
The point is there should have been a bit of middle ground here…. Excellent point about the knee pads…wait till a few star goalies are injured…then maybe the owners and GMs will say something. Should stop D-Men from falling to block shots. Like 40 blocked shots in a game nowadays.
Thats ridiculous! Players gotta stop missing the net too. All these trackable game stats are embarassing for some elite guys Ovetchkin. Spot on with the stopping blocking, and ice size change. I also agree about shooting. As seen in the Fleury and Crawford pics, keepers will adapt and overcome as always. This just means that they have to go back to being technically sound to close the 5-hole.
As long as adequate knee protection is available to them, I see no issue here other than the fact that the longer legged keepers, are largely unaffected by this rule, and still have overlapping pads in many cases. I thought that the goal was to make equipment smaller across the board, not just for a minority of keepers. The rule, will do nothing to increase goal production significantly, and I think that when it fails to do it not if , that both Kay Whitmore, and Gary Bettman, should be relieved of their jobs, for wasting time and resources on this.
Make it simple and uniform across the board. Allow for touching, but not overlapping when the knees are together. Simple, effective, and fair across the board, and leaving no room for the exposed knee leading to injury debate. They could have dealt with it sooner than they did, and given the guys more time to prepare for the new rules, as well as manufacturers more time to build the gear to the new specs.
Why does anyone care besides NHL goalies care whether the pads have been reduced in size? Really, why does anyone care? I call B. What you guys are completely missing is that when Giggy and all the other goalies talk about knee problems they are not just talking about direct shots, but rather the extra pressure and force that will be applied on the knees and hips as a result of the shortened pads.
I am still a young guy but I am going into my 14th season of highly competitive hockey and I have terrible groin and hip issues already.
Having the extra pad length lets me relax when I go into the butterfly and not have to tighten and pull my groins together in order to close the five hole. If the league really wants to see more goals in the NHL it would make much more sense to make the goal bigger rather then making goalie gear smaller. The NHL needs to worry more about the safety of their players rather than the money in their pocket.
Now, having seen the sport on tv I know that even with these monsters in the net the scores regularly go into double digits- not total score but double digits for both sides of the scoreboard. What does that prove? Perhaps that yet again the NHL brass is barking up the wrong tree.
Many goalie here have identified the defensive systems, systematic shot blocking and the throwing away of the rulebook come playoff time as a major cause of fewer scoring chances. Rob Roth summed it up long ago.
You want more shots on net? Taking odds. First goalie to lose a kneecap this season will be…. I wonder what Bauer, Koho and Vaughn have in store for smaller goalie pads….? Also does anyone know if TPS still makes pads? NHL wants more goal but that would take all of the fun of hockey away cause they try to make the game look like basketball or Lacrosse, with really high score, but that means that the game will stop more often and take off the intensity of hockey.
So we have reduced the equipment. So what will the league say later when this has little or no effect on goals scored. Meantime, maybe injuries rise for goalkeepers? IMHO, while the gear has grow, so has the speed and skill of the current generation of players.
The sticks now generate lethally quick shots, and the accuracy of the current player is phenomenal — often several lines deep. It is not the gear. The fan wants to see scoring, yes. But I argue, the fans want to see a fast free flowing hard hitting game.
The key is the opportunities to score. What they do not want is grinder games with 15 shots on goal per team. They will accept a lower scoring game if the saves and the speed and the shots are present.
To me, all clutching, grabbing, grinding, trapping is what makes these games lower scoring, —If each team gets shots, there will be goals, there will be saves, and there will be goals.
The players are too good —if you let them be good. Do not take away hitting, just enforce rules that allows precision hockey to be played. Goalie gear is a much smaller worry than the flow of the game. From the pics. Narrow butterfly now endangers the knee cap way too much for my liking. Larger pad will always mean slower response and recovery time. That alone in my opinion is equivalent to the surface area covered by larger pads and 5 hole coverage.
The weight increases by just under a pound. This will cause an insurgence of bigger, fatter goalies that can actually fill those huge pads, and slowly phase out the athletic goaltending we currently see, watering down the game again resulting in loss of tv coverage again. They say everything is cyclical, and seeing as tv coverage is all NHL cares about, consider this the downward turn phase.
Stay safe goalies! Folks like to talk about how the game has evolved and about how players will always look for the advantage. It is important to take any equipment advantage out of the picture.
Look at how bulky the players look today. They are wearing so much equipment! Back in the day, you would never see so many players diving in front of pucks like they do taday. Many players on the Rangers last year wore special protective equipment so that they could dive at pucks and think later.
My opinion on the changes are it will make little to no difference in scoring. Most goalies are playing a blocking style and will figure a way to close the 5 hole plus the smaller pads will just add a little extra quickness. I think this new rule reducing the pad size from knee to thigh is absurd. One comment I read on this article said that the size of the pad the way most goalies like myself have it today is cheating and that is an oblivious comment in my mind.
I have a wide enough butterfly that when I go down, theres usually never a hole for the puck to go through me. This is why it is a terrible idea to reduce the size of the pads. While reducing the size of the pad, we are critically increasing the risk of injury. Worrying about breaking my knee or even possibly my leg is just another concern to add to the list.
I think we all need to just face the fact that goalies are getting increasingly better every year, and we are all progressing faster and farther than the players. So the NHLPA is saying that we as goalies should be punished for performing on another level than the players themselves?
That is just terrible in my mind considering all the innovative technology in sticks and other equipment they have come out with for players. You cant honestly say that the material in a goalie pad has changed AND improved our play unlike fiberglass sticks and flex patterns on the sticks for players. They would be furious and they would throw the thought away at an instant. In the end, I would just rather they start working on ways to enhance the players performance advancing technology even further instead of hold us as goalies back from competing to our full potential.
Just one thought that immediately comes to my mind is the use of nano technology. Scientists have been working to expand the use of nano technology in our world today. If they made sticks using carbon nano fibers, the sticks would be much lighter and much more durable stronger. All I ask is that the NHLPA looks at this dilemma from both sides instead of just their side and making it easier for them. They should be looking for ways to improve themselves instead of taking away from the goaltenders.
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