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Question for goalie parents
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 8:20 pm
by Offside
I am curious to know why a goalie parent would want their kid on a team where they goalie averages 1-5 shots a game.
Aren’t you worried that they are getting false hope that they are good?
Or the fact that you just spent 6-10k on a AAA program to literally have no game challenging experience
Re: Question for goalie parents
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2022 10:32 am
by Tubbz
I'm a goalie parent and I agree I wouldn't want my kid on a dominant team where they face no shots. You obviously can't always predict, but I tend to target teams that will end up somewhere between bottom 1/3rd of the league to mid-pack. You don't want them on a bottom team, as they not going to learn how to play with structure around them and are just going to get shelled.
Re: Question for goalie parents
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2022 11:27 pm
by Guest
Your goalie sees more pucks in practice than in a game, and has more practices than games.
Facing shots from lesser players in practice is a crappy way to go through hockey and doesn't challenge your goalie to get better. It bores him / her and they're watching the clock to see when practice will end.
Also teaching your goalie how to be a loser year after year does nothing for their competitiveness. If your goalie shows up to the game expecting to loose because his teammates aren't at his level, is demoralizing and sucks the will out of a competitor.
I agree that playing in lop-sided games where your team is dominating is boring and bad for development. Given the choice between the two options, playing with high level players in practice is always the best option, sprinkled with some years of playing 500 is ideal. Sooner or later he / she will be playing against a top team in that season and that good goalie will be ready to face top shooters from the other team, and it will be fun for everyone.
Re: Question for goalie parents
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2022 1:44 pm
by Guest
My son did his first year in A as the back up on a very good team - lots of shots against good players in practice, very few against the lower teams he got to start against. It was a good way to get a sense of things but then he moved to a mid-pack team. You can't replicate game conditions in practice and he's happier feeling he has some part in the outcome.
Re: Question for goalie parents
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 8:39 pm
by Guest
New question here: is it mandatory that goalies wear a dangler in minor hockey?
Re: Question for goalie parents
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 9:51 pm
by Guest
Not mandatory but I don't see why you wouldn't. My kids dangler has puck marks all over it. Who knows if one of those would have been a neck shot.
Re: Question for goalie parents
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 11:18 am
by Guest
Tubbz wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 10:32 am
I'm a goalie parent and I agree I wouldn't want my kid on a dominant team where they face no shots. You obviously can't always predict, but I tend to target teams that will end up somewhere between bottom 1/3rd of the league to mid-pack. You don't want them on a bottom team, as they not going to learn how to play with structure around them and are just going to get shelled.
Nice excuse for your kids 6.00 GAA and .700 SVP
Re: Question for goalie parents
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 1:16 pm
by Guest
Guest wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 9:51 pm
Not mandatory but I don't see why you wouldn't. My kids dangler has puck marks all over it. Who knows if one of those would have been a neck shot.
Scary to think that a parent or coach wud send a kid on the ice without one
Re: Question for goalie parents
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:33 pm
by Guest
If it was good for Marty Brodeur to wear one then it's good for everyone..
Re: Question for goalie parents
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 3:12 pm
by Guest
Guest wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 11:27 pm
Your goalie sees more pucks in practice than in a game, and has more practices than games.
Facing shots from lesser players in practice is a crappy way to go through hockey and doesn't challenge your goalie to get better. It bores him / her and they're watching the clock to see when practice will end.
Also teaching your goalie how to be a loser year after year does nothing for their competitiveness. If your goalie shows up to the game expecting to loose because his teammates aren't at his level, is demoralizing and sucks the will out of a competitor.
I agree that playing in lop-sided games where your team is dominating is boring and bad for development. Given the choice between the two options, playing with high level players in practice is always the best option, sprinkled with some years of playing 500 is ideal. Sooner or later he / she will be playing against a top team in that season and that good goalie will be ready to face top shooters from the other team, and it will be fun for everyone.
Parent of a kid who has been on a dominant team and a mid-pack team. I think it really depends on the kid. Some kids want to win so badly that they can't see past the wins and losses and being on a mid-pack/bottom end team could really impact their confidence and thus their ability to grow. Conversely, taking those losses and seeing so many shots is great for understanding and learning how games develop and getting used to real life game situations.
I think the idea that playing on a top-end/highly dominating team is somehow good because you see better shots in practice is pretty minimal. A kid who shoots hard in a 3 on 0 flow drill isn't real practice for a goalie. Having kids go bar down in practice with no defence around isn't useful training. If team practices were actually run with goalie development in mind then I would probably have a different perspective.