Här är intressant text där Philadelphia Flyers videocoach och målvaktscoach funderar lite kring Boston Bruins målvakt Tim Thomas.

“You look at a guy like Ryan Miller and you can tell he’s as technically as sound a goalie as you’re going to get,” Patterson told NHL.com “He’s a big guy, square to the shooter. Then you watch a guy like Thomas and there isn’t one particular shot or flaw that you can pinpoint. The goals are all different on this guy. He’s a battler, he never quits. It’s hard to give the players particular reads.

“With Miller, we had some things where we were telling the guys where to shoot and things to do – saying he’s aggressive and to look back door when he’s out of his net. But with Thomas, he’s a little bit of that, but like Jeff said, he’s predictable yet unpredictable. He does stuff that a lot of goalies don’t do. He just tries to stop the puck and he’ll do it any way possible. He’ll get down and won’t care what it is, whether it goes off his head or whatever.”

 

Brukar ibland tjata om att försöka spela varierat så att man som målvakt inte blir så lättläst!