Overall performance: decent
Final Score: 5-4 win
Scoring summary:
1: Middle of the second period. Face off in our zone, won by the other team, and an attacking player found open ice at the 8 o'clock section of the face off circle. I tried to poke check the puck, but they fired a quick shot that went in under my armpit.
2: Pass from the corner to an open man in the slot. I challenged out but got beat low glove side. If I had read the players hand and had a little more depth it might have been a save.
3. 2 on 1, player with the puck didn't pass and cut across blocker side to glove side. I butterfly slid and followed him, but not quick enough as he snuck it in the corner before I sealed off the lower net on that side. I lost sight of the puck when it was in tight, and might have been able to make a toe extension if I had a better visual of the puck.
4. 2 on 1, player with the puck passed. I slid across, but the puck snuck in under my blocker arm.
Highlights:
Allowed no goals in the first period, including stopping a couple of passes out to the slot and a couple of 2 on 1s.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Game Log - Thurs May 12 - Caps vs Shockers
Overall performance: terrible
Final Score: 9-7 win
Scoring summary:
1: Giveaway to player at hash marks of left faceoff circle. Screened shot release. Beat me glove side. I could have been positioned further to glove side due to blocking by d-man and positioning of the shooter.
2: Two one one, player with the puck drove wide, passed to partner in the slot. Decent bfly slide, lost sight of the puck and scored in between my pad and blocker.
3: Player with puck rounded the net, and took a shot from just above goal line, 4-5 ft from goal. I did bfly slide to follow player around net, then filled space for any shot. Puck hit me in the chest and trickled into the goal. I should have performed VH block in this instance.
4: Shot from similar location as 1st. Again beat me glove side
5: Breakaway goal. I was too deep in my crease, beat me low glove side
6: dont' remember
7: Breakaway goal. Player streaking from blocker side. Went down to early and allowed an easy deke and score on empty net.
Highlights:
I was able to regroup for the second period and stopped all shots. Made several saves in succession in a last minute goal mouth scramble to preserve the lead.
Final Score: 9-7 win
Scoring summary:
1: Giveaway to player at hash marks of left faceoff circle. Screened shot release. Beat me glove side. I could have been positioned further to glove side due to blocking by d-man and positioning of the shooter.
2: Two one one, player with the puck drove wide, passed to partner in the slot. Decent bfly slide, lost sight of the puck and scored in between my pad and blocker.
3: Player with puck rounded the net, and took a shot from just above goal line, 4-5 ft from goal. I did bfly slide to follow player around net, then filled space for any shot. Puck hit me in the chest and trickled into the goal. I should have performed VH block in this instance.
4: Shot from similar location as 1st. Again beat me glove side
5: Breakaway goal. I was too deep in my crease, beat me low glove side
6: dont' remember
7: Breakaway goal. Player streaking from blocker side. Went down to early and allowed an easy deke and score on empty net.
Highlights:
I was able to regroup for the second period and stopped all shots. Made several saves in succession in a last minute goal mouth scramble to preserve the lead.
Game Log - Sunday May 8 - Caps vs Jerseyed.ca
Overall performance: excellent
Final Score: 2-1 SO win
Scoring summary:
Powerplay goal. Shot from the point, deflected off blocker side. Rebound picked up by opposing player in front of the net. Beat me above pad on blocker side.
Shoutout summary:
First shot, challenged well, shot over the net to the glove side
Second shot, challenged well, deke to blocker side, good bfly slide execution, blocked backhand shot
Third shot, challenged well, deke to glove side, good bfly slide execution, shot missed the net
Final Score: 2-1 SO win
Scoring summary:
Powerplay goal. Shot from the point, deflected off blocker side. Rebound picked up by opposing player in front of the net. Beat me above pad on blocker side.
Shoutout summary:
First shot, challenged well, shot over the net to the glove side
Second shot, challenged well, deke to blocker side, good bfly slide execution, blocked backhand shot
Third shot, challenged well, deke to glove side, good bfly slide execution, shot missed the net
Friday, October 29, 2010
Getting lazy!
Not in my playing, but in my posting. I've played twice since my last post but have been too caught up in other things to write about them.
The first was just a pickup game. The Whalers were a victim of bad scheduling, and had two weeks off in a row, so we organized a pick up game to keep ourselves from getting slack. It was a fun game, typical pick up where you get a tonne of 2-1, and breakaways. I played decent for the most part. The part I was really impressed with myself for, was that I didn't allow a single goal on a breakaway! That's a stat that doesn't happen for me very often.
Then on Monday this week the Whalers finally got back into action for real. This was our first game post re-alignment, and were playing on of the teams that got moved down from a higher division, so we had no idea what to expect.
The game started off pretty good, with us scoring the first point. Not too long later they came back to tie it. It was a walk out from behind the net, and I played it well with a nice VH and made sure to make myself nice and tall. He threw it at me, but then it tipped off one of my defenseman's sticks and skipped over my pad and trickled in on the far side. I saw the whole thing happen but couldn't get my limbs in position to stop it. Then I can't remember how it went, but we got two more, and so did they. The first was a bad goal, if you can call any breakaway goal a bad goal. I came out and challenged well, and read the deke, but for some reason I thought I was closer to my net than I was, and I didn't slide far enough. He took the easy shot between me and the post. The last goal was through a screen, and I had a piece of it between my glove and body, but enough got through and trickled into the net.
The team came back well after that, and scored two more for us to go on and win 5-3. They had some good pressure at times, and it was a physically demanding game for me, but those are the fun ones.
I play again tonight, and will be looking to create a string of consistency.
The first was just a pickup game. The Whalers were a victim of bad scheduling, and had two weeks off in a row, so we organized a pick up game to keep ourselves from getting slack. It was a fun game, typical pick up where you get a tonne of 2-1, and breakaways. I played decent for the most part. The part I was really impressed with myself for, was that I didn't allow a single goal on a breakaway! That's a stat that doesn't happen for me very often.
Then on Monday this week the Whalers finally got back into action for real. This was our first game post re-alignment, and were playing on of the teams that got moved down from a higher division, so we had no idea what to expect.
The game started off pretty good, with us scoring the first point. Not too long later they came back to tie it. It was a walk out from behind the net, and I played it well with a nice VH and made sure to make myself nice and tall. He threw it at me, but then it tipped off one of my defenseman's sticks and skipped over my pad and trickled in on the far side. I saw the whole thing happen but couldn't get my limbs in position to stop it. Then I can't remember how it went, but we got two more, and so did they. The first was a bad goal, if you can call any breakaway goal a bad goal. I came out and challenged well, and read the deke, but for some reason I thought I was closer to my net than I was, and I didn't slide far enough. He took the easy shot between me and the post. The last goal was through a screen, and I had a piece of it between my glove and body, but enough got through and trickled into the net.
The team came back well after that, and scored two more for us to go on and win 5-3. They had some good pressure at times, and it was a physically demanding game for me, but those are the fun ones.
I play again tonight, and will be looking to create a string of consistency.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Boing, boing!
That my friends, is the sound of me bouncing back. Unfortunately it wasn't a game that meant anything, as I just rented some ice with the Whalers and some other friends. Still, I had a really great night. I stopped every single breakaway on me (and there were several), and made a bunch of nice positional and sliding saves. My goalie counterpart commented afterwards how he noticed that my sliding seems to really have improved. I also played around a little bit with a slightly different glove position during the game and it seemed to have big success. My glove was pointed more to the side than slightly down how I used to hold it. I made several glove saves with it in that position, and it just felt like I was covering more net with it that way, but that could be all in my head.
One of the big things I made sure to do this game was play VERY aggressively out of my crease. I need to pay more attention to this in the future because it seemed to be a big factor last night.
Here's hoping I can continue this into next week!
One of the big things I made sure to do this game was play VERY aggressively out of my crease. I need to pay more attention to this in the future because it seemed to be a big factor last night.
Here's hoping I can continue this into next week!
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Consistency
I realize that I missed a post from last week. I had a game with the Tsunami on Friday night and it was one of my best games of the year. I made two breakaway saves, several VH stops with the guy cutting across the net, and had good control of my rebounds. We ended up tying the game 2-2 though. One goal was off a giveaway that surprised me and I didn't get enough depth for the shot that went over my shoulder, and the other was a funny one where my own defenceman accidentally batted the puck into the net with his glove. I think he was trying to grab it but instead knocked it.
Fast forward to this week and I have another game with the Tsunami (Whalers have had two weeks off - ya, our scheduling sucks). I felt good going into this game, especially since I had come off a good performance with these guys not that long ago. Warm up went well except for two shots, one each to blocker and glove side that I let in that I felt I should have been able to get. Tried to brush them off, but I think they were eating at me a bit.
The game started a bit slow for me, as we controlled the puck in their zone for a while. We even scored off the first shot (talk about confidence deflator for the other goalie). They finally got themselves settled though, and the action was back and forth, with a good amount of action for me. I handled the first several shots well with rebounds only to the corners, and even made a nice leg pad save on a shot that fluttered in through a screen. It would have gone in but I kicked the right pad out to the post and made the block. I was impressed with myself after that save and thought I was in for another good game. Then it all came apart. Goal 1; guy comes in on a breakaway, and I totally fudge the save and he ends up potting an easy one on me. That bothered me a lot but I tried my best to ignore it. Goal 2; I wasn't so unhappy with this one. Pass from the corner goes to a guy in front with space. I came out and challenged, but he snapped a wrister top corner glove side. I was maybe not 100% square to the puck on this one though, and should try to pay more attention to that later. Goal 3; Slap shot from the face off dot that I saw all the way, but still let squeak under my arm as I was going down. Goal 4; weak shot along the ice that I bungled and let slip through my five hole. This was incredibly frustrating for two reasons. 1 - I had just made the exact same save on a much harder shot and had congratulated myself for keeping the stick to the ice, and then let this much weaker shot in, and 2 - my team had a two goal lead that I just let evaporate in the last few minutes. Full credit to my team as they didn't give up and managed to net another one with only a minute left. Ok I thought, I can keep this net closed for a minute. Then it happened. The play started with a point shot that got deflected up high, and two of my defenceman tried to grab it out of the air. It deflected off of them, to the other side of the net where there was a man waiting to pot it in. I had gone down in case the puck got through my defensemen and was bouncy along the ice, and all I could do was a scramble dive. No luck. They scored with just 15s left in the game.
Needless to say I am very frustrated with my lack of consistency. I don't know what the key is to being consistent. Here's hoping I figure it out and soon.
Fast forward to this week and I have another game with the Tsunami (Whalers have had two weeks off - ya, our scheduling sucks). I felt good going into this game, especially since I had come off a good performance with these guys not that long ago. Warm up went well except for two shots, one each to blocker and glove side that I let in that I felt I should have been able to get. Tried to brush them off, but I think they were eating at me a bit.
The game started a bit slow for me, as we controlled the puck in their zone for a while. We even scored off the first shot (talk about confidence deflator for the other goalie). They finally got themselves settled though, and the action was back and forth, with a good amount of action for me. I handled the first several shots well with rebounds only to the corners, and even made a nice leg pad save on a shot that fluttered in through a screen. It would have gone in but I kicked the right pad out to the post and made the block. I was impressed with myself after that save and thought I was in for another good game. Then it all came apart. Goal 1; guy comes in on a breakaway, and I totally fudge the save and he ends up potting an easy one on me. That bothered me a lot but I tried my best to ignore it. Goal 2; I wasn't so unhappy with this one. Pass from the corner goes to a guy in front with space. I came out and challenged, but he snapped a wrister top corner glove side. I was maybe not 100% square to the puck on this one though, and should try to pay more attention to that later. Goal 3; Slap shot from the face off dot that I saw all the way, but still let squeak under my arm as I was going down. Goal 4; weak shot along the ice that I bungled and let slip through my five hole. This was incredibly frustrating for two reasons. 1 - I had just made the exact same save on a much harder shot and had congratulated myself for keeping the stick to the ice, and then let this much weaker shot in, and 2 - my team had a two goal lead that I just let evaporate in the last few minutes. Full credit to my team as they didn't give up and managed to net another one with only a minute left. Ok I thought, I can keep this net closed for a minute. Then it happened. The play started with a point shot that got deflected up high, and two of my defenceman tried to grab it out of the air. It deflected off of them, to the other side of the net where there was a man waiting to pot it in. I had gone down in case the puck got through my defensemen and was bouncy along the ice, and all I could do was a scramble dive. No luck. They scored with just 15s left in the game.
Needless to say I am very frustrated with my lack of consistency. I don't know what the key is to being consistent. Here's hoping I figure it out and soon.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
A win!!!... ugh wait, I mean a loss?
Friday night I played the fifth game of the season with the Whalers. We went into the game with a 3-1 record, facing a team with a 3-0 record. It promised to be a close match.
I felt good going into the game, had my lucky underclothes and all. Warm up went well, although it was short as we were late getting on the ice. I handled a few nice shots early, which is always good to get into the game. The teams were well matched, which resulted in several periods in each others end, and some good work for both goalies. My team got on the board first. A few plays later and it was a 1 on 2, with my two defenseman hanging back a little too far and giving the guy room to shoot. I didn't get a good view on the shot and it beat me between the blocker and legs.
After that I made several really good stops, including one toe save on a cross crease pass that should have been an easy tip in for them. My teammates were commenting on my play and it really helped to pump me up even more. I was getting to the point where I was begging the team to shoot on me. In the second period I faced a breakaway, and while I didn't handle it perfectly, I did manage to get my pad down in time to smother it as he tried to tuck it in near my boot break. There was a bit of confusion around that one since nobody really knew where it went (me included) until I moved my leg and it was under that. Unfortunately a little after that a breakdown in coverage led to a point shot that bounced off a couple of players and found it's way onto the stick of a player standing on the opposite edge of my crease who easily tapped it in. As soon as I saw the puck make it over to him I knew I was beat.
My team pressured to try and get the tying goal, but didn't have any luck. In the dying seconds they made a pass to an open player directly in front of the net who did a nifty spin and backhand that tucked in under my blocker side arm. The buzzer went just after the puck went in.
Despite it being a loss in score, I felt really happy with how I played, and it felt like a win to me. Even when I think back about the game now I have to remind myself that we lost, because it really doesn't feel that way.
I felt good going into the game, had my lucky underclothes and all. Warm up went well, although it was short as we were late getting on the ice. I handled a few nice shots early, which is always good to get into the game. The teams were well matched, which resulted in several periods in each others end, and some good work for both goalies. My team got on the board first. A few plays later and it was a 1 on 2, with my two defenseman hanging back a little too far and giving the guy room to shoot. I didn't get a good view on the shot and it beat me between the blocker and legs.
After that I made several really good stops, including one toe save on a cross crease pass that should have been an easy tip in for them. My teammates were commenting on my play and it really helped to pump me up even more. I was getting to the point where I was begging the team to shoot on me. In the second period I faced a breakaway, and while I didn't handle it perfectly, I did manage to get my pad down in time to smother it as he tried to tuck it in near my boot break. There was a bit of confusion around that one since nobody really knew where it went (me included) until I moved my leg and it was under that. Unfortunately a little after that a breakdown in coverage led to a point shot that bounced off a couple of players and found it's way onto the stick of a player standing on the opposite edge of my crease who easily tapped it in. As soon as I saw the puck make it over to him I knew I was beat.
My team pressured to try and get the tying goal, but didn't have any luck. In the dying seconds they made a pass to an open player directly in front of the net who did a nifty spin and backhand that tucked in under my blocker side arm. The buzzer went just after the puck went in.
Despite it being a loss in score, I felt really happy with how I played, and it felt like a win to me. Even when I think back about the game now I have to remind myself that we lost, because it really doesn't feel that way.
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