Time stands still as we try to find the puck amid the chaos, and not in a good way.
“In real time, it’s only one or two seconds but it feels like a lifetime until you can find that puck,” Detroit Red Wings goalie Cam Talbot said on a recent episode of the InGoal Radio Podcast. “When those scrambles are happening in front and you don’t know where it is, or you’ve located it but can’t get to it, you’re just kind of a sitting duck.”
The life of a goalie in those moments was the subject my latest Unmasked Column on NHL.com, but the focus was primarily on how hard it was to find a puck in those battles, especially when it’s not from a rebound that allows us to at least have an idea of what direction it’s headed next. Many of the NHL goalies interviewed also provided some great tips for surviving those broken play battles, so we wanted to add that advice and share those insights in an expanded version of the column here at InGoal Magazine.
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