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Originally Posted by Drury18
You are pretty much dead on here.
Just to add to the first one, it also makes the ice less slippery so you can get up quicker. Fresh ice and goal pads aren't great friends and you can find yourself slipping and sliding and potentially causing injury for extending yourself faster/awkwardly then you planned. If you scuff up the ice, you tend to slide around alot less.
And some nights, those snow piles on your goal posts are more handy then your defence at stopping the behind the net plays.  |
Yeah. Really it is much more about the difference between managing your movement on ice in mid game condition as compared to a clean sheet, than it is about the snow piles. The snow piles used to be a bit more significant prior to the shovel crews cleaning them. Much more slippery after a flood, and it is reasonable for a goalie to have an idea of how they respond to the surface they are working on.
You see guys filing their sticks, working on them with torches, putting glue on their tape, etc. It is surprising to me that a guy takes exception to a goalie scuffing his crease to make ice a bit more consistent and predictable. Not to mention the fact that it gets scuffed quickly when play starts.
Really didn't see that one coming.