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Originally Posted by Frankster
For the love of God, not elbow floaters! I take nasty shots off of there that still hurt!
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Haha, yeah maybe not those. I was more talking about the width of them. I've seen some pretty wide ones.
I suppose one way you could manufacture scoring off goalies would be to somehow change the face of the pads. Speaking in generalities, a lot of pads are flat faced, very stiff and rocket rebounds safely to non-danger areas (i.e. Luongo, Rinne...). Others wear pads that are softer but made to leave safe/predictable rebounds in front of goalies that are quick to cover (i.e. Kipper, Quick).
Don't know how you would do it or even standardize it, but maybe they could limit the type of materials used in pads so that rebounds are less predictable for the goaltender. Or perhaps change the face of the pad like reducing the shape of the outer roll.