He can have bad games. To be fair I haven’t watched to see who was responsible for these goals, but 7/10 against the Canucks? Woof. Also almost everyone in the division lost today.
He can have bad games. To be fair I haven’t watched to see who was responsible for these goals, but 7/10 against the Canucks? Woof. Also almost everyone in the division lost today.
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Shesterkin was a complete wall today. We only beat him with absurd goals that nobody would have got.
He was always going yo come back down to earth.
All of the Mild are Wallstedt merchants. Prove me wrong.
Also hawks? Shut out. Mammoth? Shut out. Jets? Blown out. Mild? Blown out (it would seem). Crazy day.
Guess that means the Canucks are better than them
XD
Rookie goalies who come in hot like that eventually get cooled off. Once there is enough NHL tape on him, opposing goalie scouts WILL find SOME kind of weakness that can be exploited. They have some tell, some flaw in their technique, something that shooters will eventually figure out. They’re only human, after all.
Once they hit that wall, they’ll struggle (see Jakub Dobes this year). The good goalies adjust with the help of their OWN goalie coach and get to the level that an NHL regular goalie needs to be. The rest end up as backups/tweeners. It’s a tough hurdle to clear, because if they get to the NHL at all they’re already REALLY good and don’t have a ton of room to improve. It’s why there are so few good goalies in the league now, it’s become a ridiculously hard position to play because of how good the shooters are and how well the scouts can pick apart their game.
That’s kind of what happened to Georgiev, incidentally. He wasn’t very big (for a goaltender), so he compensated by being really aggressive when cutting down angles on shooters. It made him hard to beat, but his decision making about *when* to be aggressive wasn’t always great. So then coaches started telling players to spread things out. Basically, they would get him to overcommit to a scenario, like a shot coming from the faceoff dot, and then once he prepared for that they passed it. Now he was out of position, and there was suddenly “nothing he could do” on the wide open play.
That rattled his confidence in his decision making skills, and I believe it started a spiral of his mental game getting weaker as he got less confident, and then he would get shelled, and then he would second guess himself MORE and be LESS aggressive, so now he started missing on plays that he would have had before because his technique was all built on that aggression. And then everything just fell apart, everybody had the book on how to beat him, and they ran him out of the league.
That kind of went off on a tangent there, but I hope that was informative to anybody who took the time to read it all. TLDR being an NHL goalie is stupid fucking hard and the slightest weaknesses can be exploited.