Carolina Goalie Coach Tom Barasso
There is a great story over at NHL.com today on NHL Goalie Coaches. They discuss the emergence of the role of goalie coach and their various responsibilities within the organization.
“We go over video every day, I make a report on the opponent’s goalie so I watch their film and I prepare my practice going 30 minutes before with my goalies, and sometimes after practice we do more or watch video,” said Allaire. “The responsibility is to give and teach the goaltender to play up to their level most of the time. For that, we have to provide advice and offer some quality information to the goalie to make sure he is getting close to his potential.”
I hope we’ll be albe to connect with a few for interviews here before too long. Especially with the older coaches who come from the stand-up era, I’d like to hear about their experiences from a technical point of view working with today’s butterfly goalies. I have no doubt they can do it, but it must have been an adjustment.
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David – Interesting point near the end where you mentioned stand-up era versus butterfly era. I thought about this when I seen the movie Miracle in that the actor they found to play Jim Craig would have to be an actor first, hockey player second (as opposed to the other players who were players taught to be actors). An appropriate aged player to play Craig’s part with goalie experience would have to unlearn butterflying to match Craig’s stand-up style.