Why Canada has trouble developing superstar goaltenders today
How do goaltenders develop without being consistently challenged in a game setting? That’s the question. And one Team Canada has yet to answer at the junior level.
But therein lies the problem. Most of the games leading up to elimination play don’t matter for Team Canada’s goaltending corps. And the problem is compounded considering, historically, many of Canada’s World Junior goalkeepers have only played on dominant teams from youth hockey on up.On New Year’s Day, former professional hockey player Rob Gherson – who’s now a goalie coach in the greater Toronto area – posted an insightful string of tweets about goaltender development.
I coach goaltenders as well. And without a doubt, the hardest thing to teach is game sense. Some goalies have it. Others don’t. And the only way to get better at reading the play is to do just that: log games in the crease.Today’s young goaltenders have all received specialized training since squirt hockey. Maybe even earlier. From a technical standpoint, it’s not even comparable to when I grew up. We hardly had any specialized coaching.
One thing that Gherson pointed out floored me: the fact that some of these select hockey teams are only playing with one goaltender. That’s lunacy. Canada is effectively casting off quality goaltenders from a young age.
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