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THE BASICS
TRADITIONAL RECOVERIES
RECOVERY
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In an ideal world the goaltender would always have perfect balance,
never fall down, never have to sprawl to make a save; in other words - be
just like a table hockey goaltender. He never ever ends up on his butt!
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This just isn't the case and the goaltender spends some part of the
game either failing or getting knocked down. This happens sometimes
because of poor skating skills and many goaltenders are called floppers
because they can't skate well enough or perhaps they have poor balance.
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I am often asked by coaches what can they do to stop their goaltenders
from flopping so much. Working on the goaltender's skating is definitely the
best way to help the flopper and you know that this can't happen over night.
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If you show me a goaltender with great skating ability, I'll bet you that he
seldom has problems with flopping too much.
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There are three basic positions that goaltenders end up in when they
are on the ice.