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Originally Posted by Caged Great
He seemed to be losing himself in the net a bit and was not as composed/confident is his movements, which is why he started to let in some bad goals. I would assume that he's working with Sigalet on the fundamentals and resetting himself and getting into good habits. Nothing major, but even with Smith, it wasn't anything major. Just minor things.
On the surface, most of the time when a goalie is off in terms of positioning etc, he's off by a matter of an inch or two when he's moving across, or is a little slow like Smith was earlier this year, or is too deep by a few inches, or too far out by a few inches. It doesn't seem like much, but it makes a huge difference.
Resetting those things, it's a matter of just refreshing your placements in practice. Go here, no further and repeat and repeat and repeat. Doing that over a week or so makes it instinctual and then when it's time for a game, you're doing what you should be doing and thereby hopefully not allowing more bad goals in.
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I am having difficulty translating that to the goals we have seen. With all due respect, it is an explanation in very general terms.
I can think of two recent bad goals to work on - Kane and I think it was Leivo
Against SJ, goal 1 positioning was fine and reaction was slow. Or someone turned down the gravity. That’s a ‘fool me once’ goal. Weird shot but he is accountable for expecting it.
(I know the Burns goal was bad too but I’m sure Sigalet didn’t spend 5 games telling him not to shoot it in to Burns’s shin pad.)
The Vancouver goal that got through him, maybe there is something positionally, but maybe it is just one that squeaks through. I’m sure he wants it back.
If you were talking about how Crosby seems to beat Smith over the shoulder and talking about Smith’s save selection, whether VH or reverse VH would maybe expose that space less, pad inside the post or out, glove positioning, etc. then I could see discussing positioning.
I won’t talk about the Tampa goals again.
I understand that coaches will pick up on things we don’t. It’s part of their job. Just that when you identify that there are parts of his game he needs to tweak, I thought you maybe saw something specific.
I am often suspect of people talking about goalie confidence because it seems to me they are more often projecting their own confidence on the goalie
If he makes a glove save and thrusts it upward like the torch of the Statue of Liberty, then I will know for sure that it was something Sigalet worked on with him.
