Finland has a goalie development program that starts young. It is a program developed and distributed by their hockey federation aimed at specifically developing goalies.
Over here, we don't have anything like that, and every year or two when a kid gets a new parent as a "goalie coach", they are told to play an entirely different way. Goalie coaching in Canada is often a parent on the ice firing pucks at a kid without any real aim to developing certain parts of that kids game.
6 of the top 40 goalies in the CHL this last year were European:
"Despite a relatively low number of European goalies in the CHL overall – this past season only four of the top-20 minute munching goalies in both the WHL and OHL were from Europe, in the QMJHL it was two of 20 –"
http://ingoalmag.com/news/chl-bans-e...th-2014-draft/