OT: Embarrasing hockey goal video EDIT - now with GIF

that it was from a skills competition in the game, but I did know that it was from an all-star game.  I thought the goalie just lost track of the puck, as opposed to gave zero effort.

Yeah, I'm going with MikeCohodes here, I don't think the goalie purposely let it go. Sure, if it was a real game, maybe he would have made more of an attempt to get to the puck, but it wouldn't have made a difference. His momentum was taking him away from the puck and he wasn't prepared to make a lunge.

for finding the GIF.  I have now updated the master post and credited you for finding that.

Thanks for posting that.  What I mind nothing short of amazing is that these guys do these moves in GAMES and not just some silly "skill" competition.  You watch what some of the players can do with a puck on their stick and it really is breathtaking.

The music from this video really makes me want to go play NHL '98 on the Sega Genesis.  

is pretty sweet too...

Only problem with this video: not enough Pavel Bure. That guy could make everyone on the ice look downright silly  at any given time with his speed and puckhandling. Datsyuk reminds me a lot of him, except Datsyuk probably has slightly better puck handling and slightly less speed. I'm not a Canucks fan at all, but Bure was one of my favorite players to watch.

That's Marian Hossa at 1:12 btw for anyone who was itnerested.

It was also an All-Star game, so who knows how hard the goalie was trying, or if he would have fallen for it that hard in a real game

watch the puck. Defensemen are taught to watch the opponents hips or logo, but as a goalie you find the puck.  The reason this

worked is the goalie was looking down for the puck, because the puck is (was!) always on the ice.

EDIT: and what happened in the goal above is the goalie watched the puck, his vision was block by the shooters legs, and then the puck didn't come out where the goalie was expecting. If this was a game and not a skills comp, I'd expect the goalie to poke/slide out and just knock the player over, knowing that he'll get the puck.

TL;DR ALERT

In this specific case, the goalie should've poke-checked the puck away. This play worked because players almost always kick the puck back to their stick when they put it towards their feet. The goalie expected this and committed to his right when the player faked the kick. His momentum was too great to overcome so all he could do was watch the puck slide by once he realized the player never kicked back up. Usually, a goalie should watch the player's hips because its hard to change direction more than once or twice. All a player can do is stick, leg, or head fakes, but they can't get their hips moving much. Goalies check a player's hips to get an idea of where they will end up with their move, them just watch the puck until the hard fake comes then commit to where they (right or wrong) assumed the player was going based on his general direction, which you can detect by watching their hips. Players (myself included, just saying) can take advantage of that and usually when you see a goalie or defenseman (they watch for the same thing) embarrassed it's because the player changed direction and didn't just stick handle towards the net the whole time.



TL;DR a player's hips are usually a great indicator of where their going.



Source: years of playing hockey

How things work on the internet:

First you see it on Reddit

Two days later you see it on Facebook

And on the third or fourth day you see it on the local news.

There are a couple things wrong with this post. 
1. People who use Reddit think that the entire world uses Reddit and that anyone who posts anything anywhere else must have obviously stolen it from Reddit. I saw this posted on Kuklas Korner and Puck Daddy before it was posted on Reddit. Reddit isn't the landing page for everything that has ever been posted on the internet.

2. Who cares if this was already posted somewhere else? Some of us aren't on the internet all day everyday, checking out all of the top websites. For a lot of us, Mgoblog might be the only sports blog that we check out during the day.

TL;DR?
People on Mgoblog like hockey. It's offseason. Let people post cool links without getting harassed.

Reddit is blocked at my office as well, so I am unable to go on it here.  I got this from Buzzfeed first on my mobile phone.

My thought process was:  Hey this was a cool video.  No one has posted this to the mgoforum yet, and I think that maybe some other people on the forum who like hockey will like this shot.  It is a slow day, there isn't a M game until Thursday, and the NHL isn't back until next week.

And short of torrenting every single sporting event the world over, and watching all of them, how am I supposed to find stories like these otherwise, in order to "create my own content" as you put it?  I have a day job, grad school, and a toddler, so I don't have time for that.  That's the whole point of the internet in the first place, is to give me access to things I wouldn't normally see.  And then to share those things with others, which is what I did here on the board today, because I thought that maybe some people would also want to see this.

Dude, it's OT season, who cares? Also, as others have said, not everybody uses Reddit. I wouldn't have seen this if it wasn't posted here. And yes, my life is better for having seen this, thank you very much.

Post MOAR!!!!

Lighten up, Francis.