As a hockey goalie beer leagues in Edmonton here a couple quotes that resonate with me: --"You don't have to be crazy to be a goalie, but it helps." --Bernier Parent, HoF goalie, considered to be one of the best all-time. --"My father and grandfather had over 1300 goals and I was dumb enough to be a goalie." --Jude Hall, son and grandson of two players who went to the Hall of Fame because of their ability to shoot. I don't think as a goalie that much. I think a lot when players come down so I can guess who's gonna shoot and where they're gonna shoot, but once the shot happens I do not think, I let my body take over and hope my muscle memory can make the save. Also take a look at some of the greatest goalie masks.
@@yojustmatt the hardest record shot in history was 114 mph I believe. I took a slap shot my first day skating with a junior hockey team here in Minnesota and it ripped my helmet off of my head and broke my helmet. Thank god I was wearing it lol.
@@simplyskrypt3914 khl. It was record at 114.1. Martin frk in the ahl had a 108.8 mph slapshot. In the 1960's bobby hull recorded a 118.3 mph slapshot but it wasn't during an nhl skills competition so the league doesn't recognize it
Just in case you’re wondering, a lot of these are overtime games, where the first goal wins the game. Some of these are complete and literal game savers as well as being absolutely spectacular saves. A couple even in the playoffs and OT as well… insane montage, and great video!
I think your basketball analogy was pretty good, as a goalie you get a feel for where the shot's going. You are watching the puck constantly but also noticing where the shooter's looking. They shoot where they look generally
I played goalie for 10+ years, and you never look at the players eyes. Your eyes are always looking at the puck / stick of the player who’s shooting, because the player could look anywhere and shoot it the opposite way. The stick usually faces the way the shots gonna go, but even that isn’t as reliable as watching the puck the entire time. I don’t understand why everyone thinks goalies look into the shooters eyes 😂 it’s always the puck.
Elite shooters will be able to look once, then look elsewhere in order to try and fool the goalie. Less experienced shooters will be staring at their spot the entire time, giving away their intention. As a goalie, you have to be able to read not only the shooter's eyes, but the blade position (open or closed), the wrists (locked or twisting for low vs high shots), passing options, and where opponents aren't (for rebound direction). No big deal...
@@runupmicless you use your peripheral vision dude, I always had an idea where the shooter was looking. It didn't necessarily mean I was right or made the save...
@@runupmicless For the same reason people think goalie need good reflexes to play the position, they just don't understand the position/haven't played it.
@@casualcausalityy Knowing where opposing players are with peripheral vision is indeed usefull, but if you look them in the eyes, you'll make terrible reads too much of the time, good players will make you pay dearly for this!
One of my fav videos, glad you enjoyed it! When you said, "The goalie said 'nah' tho." I can tell you from first hand experience, that's EXACTLY it. It's our dream to deny them their dream. If dude is going top cheese, I'm flashing the leather because I'm sheriff.
If you enjoy saves this much I would recommend checking out Dominik Haseks career highlights. He had a couple clips in this video. Probably the most successful unorthodox goalie in my lifetime. Didn't matter who he played for, or what stage of his career he was in, he was always on the highlight reel. He played for a lot of lower tier teams so his win total is below 400 but I do believe he has the most Vezina trophy for leagues best goalie. Simply tremendous player.
Only goalie in NHL history to win two Hart (MVP) trophies in addition to the Vezina's. Retired with highest save percentage in the modern era. Only goalie to lead the NHL in the same season in total shots faced and highest save percentage. Took a mediocre Sabres team to the Cup finals and was one hotly contested goal from victory in game 6. That Sabres team had no other HOF players while the Dallas Stars had three, including their goalie. Led his Czech team to Olympic gold playing against star studded US, Canadian and Russian teams with an insane 1.13 GAA. After the tournament Wayne Gretzky called him the best player, not just the best goalie, in hockey.
Should look up Dominik Hasek if you haven't already, he really changed the way a lot of goalies play. Such an unorthodox style he had. Flipping and flopping and taking HUGE risks, always paid off for him.
I saw Hasek vs. the Devils at the old Meadowlands Arena, sitting directly behind the net. Third period, the Dominator was pulling saves out his butt. Sabres beat my Devils that day, but I walked out of there saying, "That was one of the greatest displays of goaltending I've ever seen."
@@johnrust592 Yeah Marty, Hasek and Roy are just on a completely different level than everybody else. Hasek probably edging the other 2 out by a slim margin but my god am I ever blessed to be able to say that I have watched all 3 play.
The word you were looking for around 10:30 was anticipation. These kinds of amazing saves in hockey are a combination of anticipation and reaction. Like you said, the goalie reads the play and the body language of the players around them to anticipate where the shot is coming from (and because they see the puck go across the ice and they know their positioning leaves the weakside of the net open), so most of the time, goalies anticipate by stick their arm/pad/stick in the direction that sets them up best to either make a save or be in a great position to then react to the shot they see. Quick anticipates the shot on his weakside so he just sticks his stick out to cover the middle of the net, but then once he sees the shot itself, he keeps his stick level and doesn't raise it any higher. The result is that he has his stick in position to save the shot before he even has eyes on the shot hitting his stick. You can see that in the slo-mo. It's human performance at the highest level.
It was so awesome to watch someone who doesnt know hockey watching this 😁 I enjoyed it a lot, and it was great to see your appreciation for goalies For real, those guys are one of the greatest athletes on this planet, and what I mainly admire is that they just never give up, as you can see in most of these saves.. Even if there is a tiny chance the shooter will hit that glove, but it's the only thing you have time to put between the puck and the net, you put that glove there and hope.. Either they hit the net, or you will get some serious pats on the back and helmet by your teammates 😁😁 I love when that happens
In hockey there a quote saying : the goalie already make the safe and the puck is still on the player stick. The goalies have reflex beyond conception. Basically ur about to shoot and this guy will analyse like 10 place you can shoot and those hands move faster then own goalie thought you make the arrest and then 2 second after then brain did the « stop it » and it already stopped. I think being hockey goalie is harder then any other position in sport history
I’d love to see your reaction to Trevor zegras rookie season highlights, he’s pretty well the flashiest player in the nhl and he just finished his rookie season
@@zillatattoo Seider will have a longer more overall impact to his teams through his career-- but when it comes to human highlight reels: Zegras outranks him there. Makar this past season is up there for both those categories though - a human highlight reel who'll also be a Hall of Famer.
@@nilshoglander8254 Both aren't even close to Jack Hughes. They are all the same age, the only difference is one guy is going to be hitting 100+ points in their prime and the other will be very good players. Hughes is on another level than Zegras. Let's mention they are all the same age as well.
As a goalie we ain't going to a specific spot on these reaction saves. We are just trying to get as much of our body in front of it as we can. This is my life here, wouldn't change it for the world. I'd recommend watching Jonothan Quick's highlights, he is a goalie who relies on reflexes and is second to no one.
between dominik hasek, patrick roy, ed belfour, curtis joseph, martin brodeur, marty turco, ryan miller, roberto luongo, nikolai khabibulin, miikka kiprusoff and evgeni nabokov, the late 90s and early 2000s was truly a special time to watch hockey. and i could name more
I absolutely LOVE your reaction at 7:25. Hockey is incredibly entertaining. Your comparison to reading rebounds is correct. These goalies see 10,000 shots in their career, and do learn how to anticipate.
These goalies are not only getting over to the other side of the net instantly. But doing it on ice, while doing a split or worse. Incredible athletes.
You have to guess just like hitter in baseball, that is true. You see the motion, the stick movements and well, see it in your mind and act about it. These guys are pros, they dedicated their life for this. Really nice to watch especially when it happen live.
The funniest thing with goalies is when you watch them try to do broadcasting after they retire. They have “goalie eyes”, wide open constantly, basically staring and blinking every like 3 minutes, it’s so funny because it makes complete sense given their position
Happy you reacted hardest to the Scorpion save. The butterfly is impressive, but played out. Blocker and/or stick saves have the highest degree of difficulty. Much love from a true hoser
if you really like the goalie vids, id suggest Dominik Hasek highlights. hes the GOAT for sure, quite a few of the clips in this vid are him,but that dude was a legend and definitely the most entertaining goalie to ever play. fights, crazy saves, stuff you wont even believe
@@V3rnSqwd5611 no he isn't. Hasek was another level. He carried those buffalo teams for years and started in the nhl much later in his life than roy did. Plus Roy got embarrassed by Minnesota and retired as playing, then retired from coaching in the nhl after getting embarrassed in the playoffs again by Minnesota.
@@V3rnSqwd5611Hasek's two Hart trophies and his still leading lifetime GAA (modern era) would argue differently. Played for mediocre Sabres teams for quite a while who were a mid-tier team at best and still got them to the Cup finals only losing game 6 on a to this day hotly disputed goal. Roy was great without a doubt but Hasek was better.
Any goaltender regardless of code thrives on the same thing: pulling off something miraculous and then nonchalantly giving the attacker a nod that says "better luck next time." Soul destroying for the attacker 😁
In the first one, Ryan Miller the goalie had left the net to get to the bench so another skater to get on the ice to hopefully score a goal (a team is allowed 6 players on the ice, including the goalie but a team may opt to put another skater on the ice instead). When he saw an opposing player had the puck and was going to shoot it at the empty net, he scrambled back and made the save. Team still lost but great scramble back to the net by Miller. Great team guy, even jumped in on a fight when a bigger opponent went after his smaller teammate.
there are some good articles breaking down how nhl goalies do what they do. great reflexes/flexibility are a must, but it's more than that. whether the shooter is right/left handed plays a role, as well as the curve they use on their stick blade (players can customize their stick blade so that it has more or less curve). but apparently the most important thing is the goalie's ability to see the release of the puck. how the shooter's shoulders/hips are positioned and angled, their hand position on the stick, how far away the puck is held from their body, and how they adjust their orientation/movement at the moment they take the shot are all 'tells' that the goalie uses to determine how they should play the shot in real time. it's wild. at any rate, elite shooters know this, and will try to disguise or feint their puck release to try and fool them.
As beer league goalie I screw around with flailing around in practice or stick n puck to get a feel of my flexibility and reactions. I have made many a stop by stick lifted in air to deflect, toe stops on the goaline and flat out robbery with the glove from awkward positions... We anticipate where the puck is going and sometimes even the shooters literally shoot it into the very single inch of coverage lol
Nice vid! You should do a reaction vid on just Jonathan Quick with the saves. He is probably the most entertaining and physically gifted goalie the sport has seen in this decade. He is a different bread bro
Definitely. As a Kings fan his post to post ability to regularly rob 2 on 1’s and his low crab style of play has been amazing to watch. In his prime the only way to beat him was with perfect shots and redirections
I played goalie and you're right that a lot of it is reading the play and trying to find the puck while looking through a cage on your face, which is harder than it seems, and anticipating what's going to happen. Along with all the flexibility and reactions when it's desperation time you gotta just try to put a part of your body in front of the open part of the net. It fails 99% of the time but when it doesn't it's EPIC!
Save of the century was Ken Dryden's L shaped pad save off of Phil Esposito, the Bruins’ 76‐goal man, from point‐blank range. Esposito shook his head and called Dryden a “big giraffe,” and admitted later it was the greatest save he had ever seen. 1971.
As a goalie you're playing the odds. You use positioning, experience and intelligence to read the play and shift those odds in your favour as much as possible as to when and where the shot is coming. For most shots there's less than a tenth of a second from the time it leaves their stick to when it gets to you, there's so little time to react and move you have to be in (or moving to) the right spot before then. You'll notice in pretty much all of these saves the goalie is reacting before the shot even happens and make incredible reads on where the shot is going before the shooter knows.
I'm a little late to this video but my opinion as a goalie for the past 10 years: I'd say about a third of these saves are so impressive because the goalie was initially out of position or misjudged playing the puck (like 2:38, 3:02). It's still wildly impressive that they made the save, but the goalies certainly didn't make it easy on themselves. The other 2/3rds are either the defense screwing up and leaving someone wide open, leaving the goalie to save them (1:46, 2:18) or just making saves on impossible rebounds, when the offense does everything right and still gets robbed (2:07, 3:09). I'm not gonna go through the whole video but I wanted to share my take. In short: all of these are fantastic, but some of these saves didn't need to be incredible athletic saves. The most important thing as a goalie is to make the save, but also to be able to make the save consistently. Generally, the less drama around the save, the better it is for the goalie.
9:40 Goalies do make educated guesses as to where the shooter will put the puck, but our instinct (I am a goalie with 40 years experience) has us covering the center of the net because that is where a shooter will aim for as it decreases the chance of missing the net. If you try to go short or far side or even the top third, the chance of missing the net is greater than if you shoot dead center. Knowing this, we goalies will ALWAYS throw something towards the center of the net (relative to the shooter's position).
I knew you'd love these maniacs these guys are from a different planet with how fast they can react! I know ya did the big hits video you should check the glass breaking hits!
I’m a goalie myself and these saves are mostly a guessing game gone right. At the point where they’re at in these clips, it seems like a guaranteed goal and as a goalie you’ve mostly accepted that’s it’s gonna go in and just try your best to put any part of yourself in the way. More often then not it doesn’t work but the few times it does work results in clips like these. Some of these saves aren’t because of luck tho. When a shot comes in from close to the net it may seem like the goalie is guessing because the puck comes in so fast, but you can use the angle of the players stick and their eyes to tell where they’re gonna shoot. Other saves like the “baseball wack save” are just mind blowing. It takes so much speed, skill and precision to pull that off it’s crazy. So point of the story is that the saves that looked the least spectacular often times than not are more of a result of skill and the impossible looking saves are mostly luck.
Love to see new ppl falling in love/ giving hockey the respect it deserves! Soccer maybe the most popular sport in the world but in my eyes Hockey will Always be the greatest! SPEED: A hockey player in full flight in a game on avg hit 25mph and some over 30mph FINESSE: At speeds being able to Deke, Juke and Dangle through players trying to knock the down to the unforgiving ice! PHYSICALITY: Out Strengthening your opponents for the puck, to Bone Crushing hits, a player always has to keep their head up! FIGHTING: With 2 willing and able opponents I believe hockey is the only sport in the world that allows its players to Duke it out to settle misgivings! STUNNING MOMENTS: From Unbelievable GOALS and celebrations to Even More astounding SAVES and disbelief! This sport, even more so in the playoffs, Is Always Action Packed!
I’ve watched the original video a few times, and watching it with your perspective definitely adds to it. Agree with another comment to watch Hasek. Best to ever do it. Bring food, clear about 2 hours - it’s a long highlight reel.
Goalies are a different breed. They make and break a hockey team. They have rituals and exercises that they only do and when they are on their game you may get hoist a Stanley Cup. No team has lifted It with mediocre goaltending. My team is the Canucks. We've gotten close three times. King Richard Brodeur in the 80s, Captain Kirk Mclean in the 90s and Bobby Luo (Roberto Luongo) in the 2000s. Goalies are the key ingredient to winning in the NHL. They cover up defensive issues and they give the team confidence when we attack - they know the goalie has their back so the offensive player can take some chances.
When you’ve got a wide open net like that you aren’t thinking, “I better put this to the side so the goalie doesn’t get it” you’re thinking “let me put this dead center in the middle of the net so I don’t miss a wide open goal because the worst thing you can do is miss the net in that situation, I’d rather be robbed by an unbelievable save than miss a wide open net.
Experience. The goalies react, but they react by experience and knowing the likelihood of where a guy is going to shoot. There's obviously some luck involved, but you make your own luck. These dudes are filthy!!
As a goalie you make 90% of your saves before the player takes the shot. You can read body language to know what the player is going to do and by watching the face of the blade you know pretty close to where the shots going before they do. These saves are more in a desperation style where you play percentages of where guys tend to go and just go for it. The puck is a lot easier to track at ice level in the net. For the pucks behind you, you can feel them go through you. Personally I listening for the puck just as much as looking for it and you can pinpoint the puck by it’s sound.
I used to be a goalie. You said they were guessing. Not really, as a goalie you can quickly read the puck carriers intentions by his body language. It's up to the shooter to put the puck where the goalie can't get it. Shooters are really good now, much better than they were in the old days.
Starts every vid: “I’m not a hockey fan…” Ends every vid: “HOLY SHIT!! 👀” 🤣🤣🤣 welcome to hockey son… best game on earth. Goalies are SPECTACULAR and my favorite part of hockey! (Other than hits fights chirps dangles… ok it’s all the best lmao)
I promise you, once you understand the flow of the game, and the basic rules you will get hooked. Hockey is so damn fun to watch, and even better in person.
That's exactly right. Most of goaltending is mental situational awareness. You must read which threats you need to respect more. If you challenge the shot too much, you'll get beat on the pass, and vise versa. You need to read a players body language to see where he will shoot. I've learned all of this from Stanley cup winning goalie coaches over the past 15 years. Watch the video by Jon Elkins goalie schools called "Smith and Murray testimonial". It gives a real look into what goes on in a goalies head
"Goaltending is a normal job, sure. How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and 15,000 people stood up and yell at you." - Jacques Plante - Montreal Canadiens Hall of Fame Goaltender
Watch/react to "The Code : the unwritten rules of fighting and retribution in the NHL." Thank God for slow motion replays in hockey, otherwise nobody could tell what happened, everything moves so fast. You can call goalies goal-keepers, that was the original term for them, after all goalies is a shortened version of goalkeeper.
I can't believe Cam Ward's save on Keith Ballard didn't make this compilation (Canucks vs Hurricanes). If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor. It's basically an even more spectacular version of the save at 1:45 . Dude's whole career was basically highlight reel saves (because the Canes never gave him a defense)
Some of the desperate saves are just: put as much things in the way in the most probable spot. Another are reading the situation, like the Lundqvist where he was lying on ice and he saw that player will shoot over him (he was far enough from Lundqvist, but not so far he would hit the top), so he raised his heel. And then there are just plain erasers, when you see it in slow mo, so you decide to throw a little glow save show.
Goalies or goaltenders are generally very flexible and athletic but they also understand shooting angles. When it comes to a goalie "guessing" they actually read the blade of the stick of the shooter to read the shot placement. The angle of the blade is quite telling of the shot placement. And as @Gordie Parenteau said... they have a screw or two loose.
Hasek was just ridiculous to watch. My uncle hated him because he was just too lucky. He lacked a "proper stance", and was often caught off position, and yet, like an octopus, he always found a way to put "something" in the way of the puck. He was one of the three greatest goalies of his time (the 90s) along with Roy and Brodeur.
To be a goalie, you need to have the reflexes of a cat and the flexibility of a gymnast. And also maybe a screw or two loose
And 20/20 vision, Patrick Roy use to talk to the post so yes a couple screws loose for sure.
good knees 🤞🏽😂
Add the ability of a major league baseball shortstop.
Goalies are incredible, they require all of the level of skill that position players in other sports have, but all in one.
How about several
As a hockey goalie beer leagues in Edmonton here a couple quotes that resonate with me:
--"You don't have to be crazy to be a goalie, but it helps." --Bernier Parent, HoF goalie, considered to be one of the best all-time.
--"My father and grandfather had over 1300 goals and I was dumb enough to be a goalie." --Jude Hall, son and grandson of two players who went to the Hall of Fame because of their ability to shoot.
I don't think as a goalie that much. I think a lot when players come down so I can guess who's gonna shoot and where they're gonna shoot, but once the shot happens I do not think, I let my body take over and hope my muscle memory can make the save.
Also take a look at some of the greatest goalie masks.
In the NHL a good shot travels between 80 and 100 miles per hour, Golies have to stop that.
Sheeesh!! That's fast bro fr
@@yojustmatt the hardest record shot in history was 114 mph I believe. I took a slap shot my first day skating with a junior hockey team here in Minnesota and it ripped my helmet off of my head and broke my helmet. Thank god I was wearing it lol.
@@JarradBruessel32 in the nhl proper its 109.4 but there may be a 114 somewhere in scandinavia / russia
@@simplyskrypt3914 khl. It was record at 114.1. Martin frk in the ahl had a 108.8 mph slapshot. In the 1960's bobby hull recorded a 118.3 mph slapshot but it wasn't during an nhl skills competition so the league doesn't recognize it
And many of them from point blank range as well
Just in case you’re wondering, a lot of these are overtime games, where the first goal wins the game. Some of these are complete and literal game savers as well as being absolutely spectacular saves. A couple even in the playoffs and OT as well… insane montage, and great video!
I think your basketball analogy was pretty good, as a goalie you get a feel for where the shot's going. You are watching the puck constantly but also noticing where the shooter's looking. They shoot where they look generally
I played goalie for 10+ years, and you never look at the players eyes. Your eyes are always looking at the puck / stick of the player who’s shooting, because the player could look anywhere and shoot it the opposite way. The stick usually faces the way the shots gonna go, but even that isn’t as reliable as watching the puck the entire time. I don’t understand why everyone thinks goalies look into the shooters eyes 😂 it’s always the puck.
Elite shooters will be able to look once, then look elsewhere in order to try and fool the goalie. Less experienced shooters will be staring at their spot the entire time, giving away their intention. As a goalie, you have to be able to read not only the shooter's eyes, but the blade position (open or closed), the wrists (locked or twisting for low vs high shots), passing options, and where opponents aren't (for rebound direction). No big deal...
@@runupmicless you use your peripheral vision dude, I always had an idea where the shooter was looking. It didn't necessarily mean I was right or made the save...
@@runupmicless For the same reason people think goalie need good reflexes to play the position, they just don't understand the position/haven't played it.
@@casualcausalityy Knowing where opposing players are with peripheral vision is indeed usefull, but if you look them in the eyes, you'll make terrible reads too much of the time, good players will make you pay dearly for this!
As a goalie myself I love seeing your reaction 👍
These saves are ridiculous. Strength, flexibility, reaction time and eye-hand coordination is crazy.
Hello there fellow tendy👋
Yeah dude. The most athletic position in sports.
One of my fav videos, glad you enjoyed it! When you said, "The goalie said 'nah' tho." I can tell you from first hand experience, that's EXACTLY it. It's our dream to deny them their dream. If dude is going top cheese, I'm flashing the leather because I'm sheriff.
If you enjoy saves this much I would recommend checking out Dominik Haseks career highlights. He had a couple clips in this video. Probably the most successful unorthodox goalie in my lifetime. Didn't matter who he played for, or what stage of his career he was in, he was always on the highlight reel. He played for a lot of lower tier teams so his win total is below 400 but I do believe he has the most Vezina trophy for leagues best goalie. Simply tremendous player.
I remember watching when he made that save on Klatt and thinking “Ugh they scored”.
Only goalie in NHL history to win two Hart (MVP) trophies in addition to the Vezina's. Retired with highest save percentage in the modern era. Only goalie to lead the NHL in the same season in total shots faced and highest save percentage. Took a mediocre Sabres team to the Cup finals and was one hotly contested goal from victory in game 6. That Sabres team had no other HOF players while the Dallas Stars had three, including their goalie. Led his Czech team to Olympic gold playing against star studded US, Canadian and Russian teams with an insane 1.13 GAA. After the tournament Wayne Gretzky called him the best player, not just the best goalie, in hockey.
Should look up Dominik Hasek if you haven't already, he really changed the way a lot of goalies play. Such an unorthodox style he had. Flipping and flopping and taking HUGE risks, always paid off for him.
As a Sabres fan, I was blessed to be able to watch Hasek in his prime. Every night he’d make a save like these.
I saw Hasek vs. the Devils at the old Meadowlands Arena, sitting directly behind the net. Third period, the Dominator was pulling saves out his butt. Sabres beat my Devils that day, but I walked out of there saying, "That was one of the greatest displays of goaltending I've ever seen."
@@johnrust592 Yeah Marty, Hasek and Roy are just on a completely different level than everybody else. Hasek probably edging the other 2 out by a slim margin but my god am I ever blessed to be able to say that I have watched all 3 play.
The word you were looking for around 10:30 was anticipation. These kinds of amazing saves in hockey are a combination of anticipation and reaction. Like you said, the goalie reads the play and the body language of the players around them to anticipate where the shot is coming from (and because they see the puck go across the ice and they know their positioning leaves the weakside of the net open), so most of the time, goalies anticipate by stick their arm/pad/stick in the direction that sets them up best to either make a save or be in a great position to then react to the shot they see. Quick anticipates the shot on his weakside so he just sticks his stick out to cover the middle of the net, but then once he sees the shot itself, he keeps his stick level and doesn't raise it any higher. The result is that he has his stick in position to save the shot before he even has eyes on the shot hitting his stick. You can see that in the slo-mo. It's human performance at the highest level.
It was so awesome to watch someone who doesnt know hockey watching this 😁 I enjoyed it a lot, and it was great to see your appreciation for goalies
For real, those guys are one of the greatest athletes on this planet, and what I mainly admire is that they just never give up, as you can see in most of these saves.. Even if there is a tiny chance the shooter will hit that glove, but it's the only thing you have time to put between the puck and the net, you put that glove there and hope.. Either they hit the net, or you will get some serious pats on the back and helmet by your teammates 😁😁 I love when that happens
Been watching the Sabres since I was six, I remember seeing that Miller save against Boston on live tv and the stadium gave him a standing ovation
In hockey there a quote saying : the goalie already make the safe and the puck is still on the player stick. The goalies have reflex beyond conception. Basically ur about to shoot and this guy will analyse like 10 place you can shoot and those hands move faster then own goalie thought you make the arrest and then 2 second after then brain did the « stop it » and it already stopped. I think being hockey goalie is harder then any other position in sport history
I noticed you like the Miikka Kiprusoff saves. You should do a video on him. He was my idol growing up and made me become a goaltender
Kiprusoff definitely a top 5 goalie of all time
That scorpion heel kick save still blows my mind
Where the little kid who stood behind kipper at home games in full pads with a sharpie beard and imitated him during games?
By goaltender you mean a trash pee wee player. If even that.
street hockey dont count.
I’d love to see your reaction to Trevor zegras rookie season highlights, he’s pretty well the flashiest player in the nhl and he just finished his rookie season
all sizzle no steak. mo sieder ftw
@@zillatattoo seider>zegras but cmon you can’t tell me the stuff zegras is doing isn’t nuts
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Seider will have a longer more overall impact to his teams through his career-- but when it comes to human highlight reels: Zegras outranks him there.
Makar this past season is up there for both those categories though - a human highlight reel who'll also be a Hall of Famer.
@@nilshoglander8254 Both aren't even close to Jack Hughes. They are all the same age, the only difference is one guy is going to be hitting 100+ points in their prime and the other will be very good players. Hughes is on another level than Zegras.
Let's mention they are all the same age as well.
Goalies are literally inhuman, loving the hockey reacts ❤️
You're implications in the emotional plan (in a casually way) make that video way better than a normal compilation props my friends for real
7:02 is the greatest save of all time... I understand it's hard to pick one & it's subjective, but holy smokes.
Your basketball rebound reference is actually true A good goalie knows where the puck is going.
Whenever it says “OT” that means overtime, you probably knew that but that makes it all so much better
You’re the shit bro. Spreading the hockey love. It really is an amazing game.
Aye man I know you said you don’t know hockey that much but love your reactions! So on point. Keep grinding 💪🏻
As a goalie we ain't going to a specific spot on these reaction saves. We are just trying to get as much of our body in front of it as we can. This is my life here, wouldn't change it for the world. I'd recommend watching Jonothan Quick's highlights, he is a goalie who relies on reflexes and is second to no one.
between dominik hasek, patrick roy, ed belfour, curtis joseph, martin brodeur, marty turco, ryan miller, roberto luongo, nikolai khabibulin, miikka kiprusoff and evgeni nabokov, the late 90s and early 2000s was truly a special time to watch hockey. and i could name more
As a goalie ive seen all of these video multiple Times and still excited when i Watch em again
I absolutely LOVE your reaction at 7:25. Hockey is incredibly entertaining. Your comparison to reading rebounds is correct. These goalies see 10,000 shots in their career, and do learn how to anticipate.
These goalies are not only getting over to the other side of the net instantly. But doing it on ice, while doing a split or worse. Incredible athletes.
Absolutely one of the best hockey reaction videos I’ve seen on TH-cam. Great video! ✊
i enjoyed watching someone who doesnt know much about hockey.. 10/10 im subbing.
You should watch Dominik Hasek's saves He was few times in this video he was insane goalie.
You have to guess just like hitter in baseball, that is true. You see the motion, the stick movements and well, see it in your mind and act about it. These guys are pros, they dedicated their life for this. Really nice to watch especially when it happen live.
The funniest thing with goalies is when you watch them try to do broadcasting after they retire. They have “goalie eyes”, wide open constantly, basically staring and blinking every like 3 minutes, it’s so funny because it makes complete sense given their position
Happy you reacted hardest to the Scorpion save. The butterfly is impressive, but played out. Blocker and/or stick saves have the highest degree of difficulty. Much love from a true hoser
if you really like the goalie vids, id suggest Dominik Hasek highlights. hes the GOAT for sure, quite a few of the clips in this vid are him,but that dude was a legend and definitely the most entertaining goalie to ever play. fights, crazy saves, stuff you wont even believe
Patrick Roy is better
@@V3rnSqwd5611 no he isn't. Hasek was another level. He carried those buffalo teams for years and started in the nhl much later in his life than roy did. Plus Roy got embarrassed by Minnesota and retired as playing, then retired from coaching in the nhl after getting embarrassed in the playoffs again by Minnesota.
@@V3rnSqwd5611Hasek's two Hart trophies and his still leading lifetime GAA (modern era) would argue differently. Played for mediocre Sabres teams for quite a while who were a mid-tier team at best and still got them to the Cup finals only losing game 6 on a to this day hotly disputed goal. Roy was great without a doubt but Hasek was better.
When they save it with their heel like that it's called a Scorpion kick
Any goaltender regardless of code thrives on the same thing: pulling off something miraculous and then nonchalantly giving the attacker a nod that says "better luck next time." Soul destroying for the attacker 😁
In the first one, Ryan Miller the goalie had left the net to get to the bench so another skater to get on the ice to hopefully score a goal (a team is allowed 6 players on the ice, including the goalie but a team may opt to put another skater on the ice instead). When he saw an opposing player had the puck and was going to shoot it at the empty net, he scrambled back and made the save. Team still lost but great scramble back to the net by Miller. Great team guy, even jumped in on a fight when a bigger opponent went after his smaller teammate.
there are some good articles breaking down how nhl goalies do what they do. great reflexes/flexibility are a must, but it's more than that. whether the shooter is right/left handed plays a role, as well as the curve they use on their stick blade (players can customize their stick blade so that it has more or less curve). but apparently the most important thing is the goalie's ability to see the release of the puck. how the shooter's shoulders/hips are positioned and angled, their hand position on the stick, how far away the puck is held from their body, and how they adjust their orientation/movement at the moment they take the shot are all 'tells' that the goalie uses to determine how they should play the shot in real time. it's wild. at any rate, elite shooters know this, and will try to disguise or feint their puck release to try and fool them.
As beer league goalie I screw around with flailing around in practice or stick n puck to get a feel of my flexibility and reactions.
I have made many a stop by stick lifted in air to deflect, toe stops on the goaline and flat out robbery with the glove from awkward positions...
We anticipate where the puck is going and sometimes even the shooters literally shoot it into the very single inch of coverage lol
Goaltender might be the word you were looking for at beginning of video :) good video thumbs up and sub!
I'm a goalie, there's no guessing about it, pure reactionary
Nice vid! You should do a reaction vid on just Jonathan Quick with the saves. He is probably the most entertaining and physically gifted goalie the sport has seen in this decade. He is a different bread bro
Absolutely
Definitely. As a Kings fan his post to post ability to regularly rob 2 on 1’s and his low crab style of play has been amazing to watch. In his prime the only way to beat him was with perfect shots and redirections
I played goalie and you're right that a lot of it is reading the play and trying to find the puck while looking through a cage on your face, which is harder than it seems, and anticipating what's going to happen. Along with all the flexibility and reactions when it's desperation time you gotta just try to put a part of your body in front of the open part of the net. It fails 99% of the time but when it doesn't it's EPIC!
“That’s crazy” “great reflexes” “just snatched that joint” 90% the commentary
Save of the century was Ken Dryden's L shaped pad save off of Phil Esposito, the Bruins’ 76‐goal man, from point‐blank range. Esposito shook his head and called Dryden a “big giraffe,” and admitted later it was the greatest save he had ever seen. 1971.
Hahahahhaha bro as a hockey player this is the funniest thing ive ever watched
As a goalie you're playing the odds. You use positioning, experience and intelligence to read the play and shift those odds in your favour as much as possible as to when and where the shot is coming. For most shots there's less than a tenth of a second from the time it leaves their stick to when it gets to you, there's so little time to react and move you have to be in (or moving to) the right spot before then. You'll notice in pretty much all of these saves the goalie is reacting before the shot even happens and make incredible reads on where the shot is going before the shooter knows.
Thus is why you can never give up on a play as a tendy, no matter how dire a situation looks
I'm a little late to this video but my opinion as a goalie for the past 10 years: I'd say about a third of these saves are so impressive because the goalie was initially out of position or misjudged playing the puck (like 2:38, 3:02). It's still wildly impressive that they made the save, but the goalies certainly didn't make it easy on themselves. The other 2/3rds are either the defense screwing up and leaving someone wide open, leaving the goalie to save them (1:46, 2:18) or just making saves on impossible rebounds, when the offense does everything right and still gets robbed (2:07, 3:09).
I'm not gonna go through the whole video but I wanted to share my take. In short: all of these are fantastic, but some of these saves didn't need to be incredible athletic saves. The most important thing as a goalie is to make the save, but also to be able to make the save consistently. Generally, the less drama around the save, the better it is for the goalie.
Respect. You jumped outta your seat for the black netminders respect
9:40 Goalies do make educated guesses as to where the shooter will put the puck, but our instinct (I am a goalie with 40 years experience) has us covering the center of the net because that is where a shooter will aim for as it decreases the chance of missing the net. If you try to go short or far side or even the top third, the chance of missing the net is greater than if you shoot dead center. Knowing this, we goalies will ALWAYS throw something towards the center of the net (relative to the shooter's position).
Goalies are a special breed. We found our goaltender passed out in the shower. He drank like three bottles of Nyquill?😅
I knew you'd love these maniacs these guys are from a different planet with how fast they can react!
I know ya did the big hits video you should check the glass breaking hits!
Love these videos!
I watch hockey all the time. My favorite team the Colorado Avalanche are in the Stanley Cup Finals
Gretzky once said ‘It’s not where the puck is It’s where the puck is going.
I’m a goalie myself and these saves are mostly a guessing game gone right. At the point where they’re at in these clips, it seems like a guaranteed goal and as a goalie you’ve mostly accepted that’s it’s gonna go in and just try your best to put any part of yourself in the way. More often then not it doesn’t work but the few times it does work results in clips like these. Some of these saves aren’t because of luck tho. When a shot comes in from close to the net it may seem like the goalie is guessing because the puck comes in so fast, but you can use the angle of the players stick and their eyes to tell where they’re gonna shoot. Other saves like the “baseball wack save” are just mind blowing. It takes so much speed, skill and precision to pull that off it’s crazy. So point of the story is that the saves that looked the least spectacular often times than not are more of a result of skill and the impossible looking saves are mostly luck.
I'm a hockey nerd, hockey goalie are a different breed
As a goalie I can confirm that 100% of shots you have to predict through their body language and where they are looking
Love to see new ppl falling in love/ giving hockey the respect it deserves!
Soccer maybe the most popular sport in the world but in my eyes Hockey will Always be the greatest!
SPEED: A hockey player in full flight in a game on avg hit 25mph and some over 30mph
FINESSE: At speeds being able to Deke, Juke and Dangle through players trying to knock the down to the unforgiving ice!
PHYSICALITY: Out Strengthening your opponents for the puck, to Bone Crushing hits, a player always has to keep their head up!
FIGHTING: With 2 willing and able opponents I believe hockey is the only sport in the world that allows its players to Duke it out to settle misgivings!
STUNNING MOMENTS: From Unbelievable GOALS and celebrations to Even More astounding SAVES and disbelief!
This sport, even more so in the playoffs, Is Always Action Packed!
Can you react to Niklas Kronwall hits. 1 of the hardest hitting players there was and some of the cleanest hits youll see
I’ve watched the original video a few times, and watching it with your perspective definitely adds to it.
Agree with another comment to watch Hasek. Best to ever do it. Bring food, clear about 2 hours - it’s a long highlight reel.
Goalies are a different breed. They make and break a hockey team. They have rituals and exercises that they only do and when they are on their game you may get hoist a Stanley Cup. No team has lifted It with mediocre goaltending. My team is the Canucks. We've gotten close three times. King Richard Brodeur in the 80s, Captain Kirk Mclean in the 90s and Bobby Luo (Roberto Luongo) in the 2000s. Goalies are the key ingredient to winning in the NHL. They cover up defensive issues and they give the team confidence when we attack - they know the goalie has their back so the offensive player can take some chances.
Great video love it
Awesome reactions. Awesome.
Goalie here, in my mind, this is how I imagine I play. In reality, I'm a flopping fish out there lol
Matt I just started watching your videos and I love them I suggested you react to nhl suspensions
When you’ve got a wide open net like that you aren’t thinking, “I better put this to the side so the goalie doesn’t get it” you’re thinking “let me put this dead center in the middle of the net so I don’t miss a wide open goal because the worst thing you can do is miss the net in that situation, I’d rather be robbed by an unbelievable save than miss a wide open net.
You should react to the best saves of Johnathan Quick and Carey Price. Two goalies that are now older and still amazingly good.
Or Marc Andre fleury
@@evanpadilla4894 Fair.
eh brother i see you grinding love from toronto, les work on getting dat squeaky chair outta der 🤣
Now you need to do a “goalies gone crazy” reaction video
you got to love hockey...it got all there is to love for!!
Experience. The goalies react, but they react by experience and knowing the likelihood of where a guy is going to shoot. There's obviously some luck involved, but you make your own luck. These dudes are filthy!!
Hockey goalies are built different dude.
Hasek was in alot of these clips you have to react to just Hasek's best saves!! he was a god at the game!
As a goalie you make 90% of your saves before the player takes the shot. You can read body language to know what the player is going to do and by watching the face of the blade you know pretty close to where the shots going before they do. These saves are more in a desperation style where you play percentages of where guys tend to go and just go for it. The puck is a lot easier to track at ice level in the net. For the pucks behind you, you can feel them go through you. Personally I listening for the puck just as much as looking for it and you can pinpoint the puck by it’s sound.
I used to be a goalie. You said they were guessing. Not really, as a goalie you can quickly read the puck carriers intentions by his body language. It's up to the shooter to put the puck where the goalie can't get it. Shooters are really good now, much better than they were in the old days.
Starts every vid: “I’m not a hockey fan…”
Ends every vid: “HOLY SHIT!! 👀”
🤣🤣🤣 welcome to hockey son… best game on earth. Goalies are SPECTACULAR and my favorite part of hockey! (Other than hits fights chirps dangles… ok it’s all the best lmao)
I promise you, once you understand the flow of the game, and the basic rules you will get hooked. Hockey is so damn fun to watch, and even better in person.
Hank Lunquist of the New York Rangers was known as the King and his name was screamed out nightly at MSG
first vid watching and i absolutely love it
That's exactly right. Most of goaltending is mental situational awareness. You must read which threats you need to respect more. If you challenge the shot too much, you'll get beat on the pass, and vise versa. You need to read a players body language to see where he will shoot. I've learned all of this from Stanley cup winning goalie coaches over the past 15 years. Watch the video by Jon Elkins goalie schools called "Smith and Murray testimonial". It gives a real look into what goes on in a goalies head
Most of these elite athletes have trained the automatic freeze/hesitation out of their responses.
part 2
Goalies are crazy
If you want a fast high energy video of amazing saves look up Tim Thomas 2011 playoff highlights. Im sure that video will blow your mind
"Goaltending is a normal job, sure. How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and 15,000 people stood up and yell at you." - Jacques Plante - Montreal Canadiens Hall of Fame Goaltender
Me as a goalie in the Bigginging was painful 🤣
Watch/react to "The Code : the unwritten rules of fighting and retribution in the NHL."
Thank God for slow motion replays in hockey, otherwise nobody could tell what happened, everything moves so fast.
You can call goalies goal-keepers, that was the original term for them, after all goalies is a shortened version of goalkeeper.
I can't believe Cam Ward's save on Keith Ballard didn't make this compilation (Canucks vs Hurricanes). If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor. It's basically an even more spectacular version of the save at 1:45 . Dude's whole career was basically highlight reel saves (because the Canes never gave him a defense)
Toronto fans gonna have ptsd seeing that Thomas save again
Some of the desperate saves are just: put as much things in the way in the most probable spot.
Another are reading the situation, like the Lundqvist where he was lying on ice and he saw that player will shoot over him (he was far enough from Lundqvist, but not so far he would hit the top), so he raised his heel.
And then there are just plain erasers, when you see it in slow mo, so you decide to throw a little glow save show.
Dominic Hasek and Marty Brodeur 👍👍 you could do an hour alone on the highlights of those two....
Goalies or goaltenders are generally very flexible and athletic but they also understand shooting angles. When it comes to a goalie "guessing" they actually read the blade of the stick of the shooter to read the shot placement. The angle of the blade is quite telling of the shot placement. And as @Gordie Parenteau said... they have a screw or two loose.
Goalies are athletes too
In hockey you can do everything right and a goalie can still steal a game. Cant happen in basketball
Mikka Kiprusoff was one of the best goalies the Calgary Flames have ever had.
Hasek was just ridiculous to watch. My uncle hated him because he was just too lucky. He lacked a "proper stance", and was often caught off position, and yet, like an octopus, he always found a way to put "something" in the way of the puck. He was one of the three greatest goalies of his time (the 90s) along with Roy and Brodeur.