On goalies You get four goals off them, or five, but the goal you've got to have to win, somehow the great ones don't let you get it.
Quotes about goalies (16 Quotes)
He's shown over the last three years that he's one of the top goalies in college hockey, ... He's played in pressure situations and at times had to carry the team. We think he's had great development and now is the proper time for him to turn pro.
Both goalies were on the top of their game, but Gerber had the shutout against Canada fresh in his head.
Then the coach said to me, 'Is this one of your national team goalies' and I said, 'No,' ... The stereotype that college coaches usually want is the bigger, taller goalie, and she wasn't that at all.
Everyone is still adjusting right now, whether it's the coaches, the players or the goalies. You've taken away one of a defenseman's biggest assets which is their ability to clear the front of the net and protect their goalie. The defense can't play tough in front of their net and the goalies are stuck dealing with the result of that. At some point the league has to do more to protect the goalies before someone ends up getting hurt.
Yeah, it does get old. And I'm sure it gets real old for the goalies. It just creates that much more for them, but that's the nature of the beast. Until you've proven yourself there are going to be those question marks, and hopefully this year is the year that they answer them.
We are very excited to have Courtney coming into CCC for the 2006 season. Courtney has a lot of natural athletic ability and tremendous potential. I believe she will be one of the top goalies in the conference.
He basically earned it. Three goalies is a crowd. So something has to be done. I think that he took advantage of his opportunity and it's not like the other guy didn't get an opportunity.
Sometimes when the goalies play so well the rest of the guys start cheating too much. That resulted in some transition goals against us.
The goalies will compete all preseason to determine the starter against North Carolina in the season opener. We feel comfortable with all three but certainly need one guy to seize the moment and take control of the defense for the season.
I don't think you can close the book on three goalies, even.
Fields had some great stretches where he was invincible for us in big games ... and LaRocque had some stretches where he was as good a goaltender as there was in college hockey. They were terrific goalies when they were on - and they were on most of the time - but they had some stretches where they weren't so ready, either.
We're comfortable with Johnson. He's a young kid who has shown us a lot, but hasn't been consistent. But again, he's a young goaltender and age-wise most goalies don't get it going until they are 27 or 28 or 29, so we still have some high hopes for him.
Shari's a player you see who has made tremendous strides in the last couple of years, ... She was always a good college goalie, but there are a lot of good college goalies out there. She's worked hard. She's in peak shape. Coach couldn't ask for more. A lot of it for her is getting experience between the pipes because that position is so mental.
And there's a lot of other goalies from Canada that deserve to be here. But we're here to make each other better and that's such a Canadian thing, we keep pushing each other and supporting each other this week.
It's funny but last year I went through the same thing. Both goalies went down at the same time, Anderson and Leighton, and I went from being number three to being thrown in at number one pretty quick. I'm trying to use that to help me out.