I've never played goal, but I've wondered, when a goalie goes down on his knees, why are his pads not under him like this
but rather flared out on the sides, forming a 12 inch high wall on the ice like this
in the second picture, the goallie's shins are on the ice, not facing the camera, yet the pads are. How does that happen?
Also, look at Ken Dryden's pads vs any goalie today; Dryden's barely comes up to his knees; you can see all of his hockey pants
now the pads are maybe a foot longer; totally takes away the five hole when they drop down in a butterfly
