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Originally Posted by Inferno
It's easy to say he should have put his paddle down watching a replay.
Breakaways are 50/50 for a goalie and even harder when someone shoots that close.
On the second one he was going to bat the puck away with his blocker towards the neutral zone but then the deflection happened and his momentum pulled him away and he was unable to get back in time. Sure, had he not tried to do that he might have been able to stop it but there's no guarantee it doesn't sneak through anyway.
Again, it's easy to say he should have did something different on a replay but in real-time it's not so easy to read deflections. In the end it shouldn't have mattered because the team's response should have been a lot better than it was.
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I agree, especially on the deflection
Let’s talk about not just reading, but physically responding to deflections
Average human reaction time to visual stimulus is 250 ms, and 200 ms, or 0.2 seconds, is very good. Let’s say NHL goalies are closer to 200
Let’s say a decent shot speed is 80 miles per hour, or 117 feet per second
Multiplying those together, you get 0.2 x 117 = 23.4
A deflected puck will move over 23 feet before a goalie begins to physically respond to it
The faceoff dot is 30 feet from the Center of the net, and a goalie is typically about 4 feet out.
So long story short, when a player is in tight and a goalie expects a deflection, you can try to position yourself to account for it
But those deflections that happen 25-30 feet out that look brutal, where the goalie appears to misread it and flail at it too late? They really aren’t. It’s science.