Goaltending Tips!

Hello everyone! As you may or may not know, I am very interested in goaltending in ice hockey (read the Sorry! post on my blog)! From reading and asking around, here are some awesome tips for all you aspiring goaltenders like me!


1. Make sure this is something you want to try!
~ Think about whether or not you want to commit. Goalie equipment in ice hockey can be quite expensive so if your family is willing to buy for you make sure that you are willing to commit and that you want to play this position for some time before getting off to a new thing. I am still thinking myself, but just take some time.


2. Prepare for the worst
~ In a lot of hockey games, goaltenders make GREAT saves. Pucks in the NHL fly an average of 100 mph. The goalie has sometimes as little as .36 seconds to locate a puck and then sometimes as little as a 10th of a second to react. But most of the time, (this is from a family member who plays as a goaltender) a little after your great save no one remembers what you did and might even BLAME you for a loss that night. So be ready for anything!!!!! 


3. OWWW!!!!!!
~ As a goaltender, you will have to risk you own bodily injury in order to stop an inanimate mass of vulcanized rubber flying at a well hit 70-100 mph pace. You WILL get hurt!!! Whether it is a pulled muscle or a cut. BE CAREFUL AT ALL TIMES!!!!! Always strap up and never forget a single piece of equipment because that could change the face of the words safety vs. ER. AND!!! if you play ICE HOCKEY please watch out for skates. Remember! You might have a whole ton of pads on, but you are still in a rink full of crazy dudes flying around you with knives on the bottoms of their shoes. BE CAREFUL!!!


Thank you SO MUCH for listening. Here are just some tips I have gotten from all of you and some people in my family who play hockey for fun!!! I am still deciding on whether this is right for me, but always remember that if you don't like it, you can ALWAYS go out for something else! Maybe you could be reading this and think that this is your life's destiny but 10 years later you end up being the star Forward for the Penguins! Who knows? Thanks for listening to my rambling!