If you angle the shooter to the outside and force him to take shots that the goalie can easily see you don't get scored on much. If you flop around and let the opposition have 3 or 4 shots uncontested point blank at the goalie it's hard to stop shots. We don't need statistics to see that the goals are almost all from leaving the front of our net wide open and giving away basically 1 on 0's multiple times per game. As someone who has played goalie a little the worst feeling is breakaways or 2 on 0's. You lose all confidence because the shooter and passers have infinite possibilities as where a good defender will force the shot outside making it much much more easy to predict where the shot will come from and where it will go and it's infinitely harder to deke the goalie. Less flopping, more pass coverage.
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