Dirty 30 Weekend

I took the weekend to catch up on the fantasy goalie landscape by providing you with a quick and dirty look at all 30 NHL teams and their current situations in goal. I made it through 20 teams by Sunday afternoon before I was distracted by … sleep! It’s Monday morning, but what’s a Dirty 30 Weekend without busting through the finish [...]

Fleury’s Game 7 Execution

You won’t find a goalie coach more amazed by Marc-Andre Fleury’s performance in Game 7 than the one that wrote these words. I mean, it was simply a jaw-dropping display of elite goaltending under pressure. Before digging into some of the technical aspects of Fleury’s play, let’s point out three behemoth saves that epitomized his 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs run. There’s the breakaway save on Alex [...]

Top 5 Things We Learned in Game 5

Dobber literally took the words right out of my mouth on Sunday with his rambling about Mathieu Garon and Marc-Andre Fleury. I couldn’t have said it better myself. And so here are some expanded thoughts on that game, in what we call the Top 5 things you learned about goaltending from watching Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. [...]

Running on Empty

What’s better than watching seven days of balls-to-the-wall hockey between teams still relentlessly pursuing the Stanley Cup Playoffs? How about knowing each game is basically a war of trash-talking and attrition in your fantasy league finals, one that could end with you walking away cash money in hand and your opponent left with nothing more [...]