The sport has never been faster. Teams are generating their most shots per game in half a century. And it's burning goalies out. MLarkinHockey story on trying to explain the NHL's goalie injury epidemic:
had the pad closest to the post flat and horizontal along the ice. The reverse VH rose in popularity after Bobrovsky was credited with executing it to perfection. It became a teaching craze at every level.
Don’t forget about Jake Oettinger, too. Or Jeremy Swayman. Or Frederik Andersen. Oh, Elvis Merzlikins just got hurt while I was working on this story. Can’t put any weight on his leg. While reviewing the final draft for this story the next morning? News drops that Marc-Andre Fleury has an upper-body injury. You can’t make this stuff up.The casualties continue to accumulate in the blue paint.
Goalies were playing hurt more often then – and in the mind of the Hall of Famer Grant Fuhr, who holds the NHL record for games played in a season by a goalie at a whopping 79, the game was as strenuous 20 or 30 years ago as it is today, albeit for different reasons. The increase in rubber seen from netminders comes from the increased freedom on the ice for teams to execute east-west plays, spread out opposing defenses and set up clean scoring chances. According to Valiquette’s research, east-west plays in the NHL have spiked by more than 40 percent in the past five years.
“If you look at what they’re teaching kids, to be down on their knees all the time in that position,” Fuhr said, “you’re six years old, you’re doing that all the time, you’re going to wear your hips out by the time you’re 22, 23.”
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