If you’re anything like most members of the goalie nation, chances are that a big part of your fascination with playing the position has to do with the coolness factor of strapping on all that equipment.  At the very top of the coolness factor scale, the goalie mask surely comes in first place.  Old guys [...]

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After Roberto Luongo turned in what was arguably the performance of the playoffs so far last night, Jaro Halak one upped him in a big way tonight. His tour de force 53 save performance stole game six, sending the series back to Washington for a winner take all game on Wednesday.

Enjoy a few of [...]

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The Canucks moved into the second round with another third period comeback last night. Vancouver’s goalie and captain Roberto Luongo had his best game of the playoffs by far and the exclamation point was this on the back spin-o-rama glove save – if he hadn’t held strong at that point the momentum of the game [...]

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Twitter went nuts on Saturday when Chicago goalie Antti Niemi took the idea of robbing Nashville shooters to a new level, losing the puck in his gear and prompting the officials to conduct an extended on-ice search. The length of time it took before the puck was finally located was remarkable, but in this day [...]

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Welcome back readers!!

Moving along with the “GF Series” (Gear Familiarization) brings us to the next piece of gear.

In case you forgot, here is the lineup I will be working through;

Mask (Click for article) Throat guard or dangler(Click for article) Chest and Arm protector Jock (a goalie specific jock) [...]

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Today in the New York Times Slapshot blog Jeff Klein and Stu Hackell wrote that the last five Stanley Cup winning goalies played no more than 62 games in the season they won the Cup.

Fleury, Osgood, Giguere, Ward, Khabibulin – none had played more than 62 games in the regular season [...]

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Colorado center Matt Duchene, Detroit goalie Jimmy Howard and Buffalo defenseman Tyler Myers are the finalists for the Calder Trophy, given to the NHL’s top rookie.

Who would get your vote – we’ve left Rask on the list for fun.

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None of these come as any surprise, but it still leaves [...]

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