Вратарь. Техника катания GOALTENDER SKATING It is a common cliche, and not altogether accurate, that the goalie must be the best skater on the team. It is a rare team in which the goalie is the best skater, but this old adage is actually meant to dispel the opposite idea, which is that because a goalie doesn’t skate far or often, he can get away with being a weak skater. Goalies wear 25-plus pounds of extra equipment and must move quickly from spot to spot, down and up, and side to side. Good goaltending requires proficiency in a different type of skating to move efficiently with all that extra gear. Failure to do so can cost a team dearly. Goalie skating—and there are a number of specific techniques—requires the goaltender to move while maintaining the basic stance described earlier. The goalie can’t always expect to be set when a shot comes, so she must move in a manner that allows her to execute a save technique even while moving. The basic types of goalie skating are forward and back, the shuffle, and the T-glide or drop step. In forward and back, the front (or face) of the pads always face the puck. The goalie moves with small C-cuts by pushing off the inside edges, alternating one skate and then the other. The stick must stay on the ice, hands are out, and the chest is up. The goalie must be careful to maintain balance and not let the shoulders get ahead of her knees. The shuffle (figure 10.3) is a series of small lateral steps. The goalie opens the lead pad, then snaps the back pad together. The skate blades always point out straight, facing the puck. This allows the goalie to stay in her stance against a puck carrier who is cutting across the front of the goal. FIGURE 10.3 The shuffle step. The T-glide (figure 10.4) is named because in midmove the skate blades nearly form a T. The drop step (figure 10.5) is similar. These techniques are used in reaction to a free-moving puck farther from the net. The lead skate turns and points in the direction the goalie wants to move, and the back skate pushes off the inside edge to propel the goalie. The goalie should lead with the hands and stick. FIGURE 10.4 The T-glide. FIGURE 10.5 The drop step. Rarely do goalies sprint or do crossovers. There are three times when speed is needed: when a goalies takes a few quick steps to play a loose puck, when a goalie goes to the bench during a delayed penalty on the other team, and when a goalie is pulled for an extra attacker at the end of the game. As for crossovers, the only crossover step done with any regularity is the first step when going behind the net to stop a puck that has been dumped into the zone (older goalies).
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