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Originally Posted by Envitro
Yeah agreed with that picture. Lundqvist's gear has bothered me for a while. There's no reason that have the shoulder flaps stick up that much, it's ridiculous and dumb.
And MattyC, I agree with some of what you say, I just think that marginal changes should be made and nothing overly drastic.
I think that goalies today are about 10,000% better at their position due to pure athleticism, training, and size than goalies in the 70's and 80's, even the 90's too.
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Oh I totally agree. That's why I think these types of changes won't do much to increase scoring (which I personally don't see as a problem) but will weed out the big guys who are just blocking shots by taking up so much net, and aren't actually relying on the athleticism and talent you speak of. I think the fact that goalies like Quick and Schnieder and Dubnyk (who is big, but an athletic guy) are the drivers of this change shows that they are not too worried about it affecting their ability to make saves. Whereas I would imagine a guy like Smith or even Bishop (don't see him play much) might be in tough.
Basically it will really separate the elite goalies IMO.