Hockey Goaltending Quiz

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How many maneuvers and body actions are required to create the basic goaltending stance?
- 2 or 3
- More than 20
- 75
- 14
How many other players must a goalie be aware of, to facilitate a proper response?
- All 10 (ten) players on the ice
- Only those on the side opposite the puck
- Only those players in the slot
- The player with the puck
What is the most fundamental skill required by any goaltender?
- Proficient skating, like the players
- The ability to make great glove saves
- Balance
- Playing the angles properly
- Proper butterfly technique
- Only A & C
What does excessive reaching or lunging on the part of the goalie indicate?
- A lack of proper balance
- Poor visual attachment to the players and puck
- Superior athleticism
- Poor positioning
- Only A & B
- All of the above
What part of visual attachment to the puck best prepares the goalie for the proper body position required to make the save?
- The head must turn to accompany and facilitate eye movement
- The eyes tracking the puck
- Having the stick on the ice
- Rotation of the hips
- All of the above
Why is playing deeper sometimes preferable to playing further out?
- Allows the goalie to achieve a centered position faster
- It minimizes scoring space
- It gives the goalie more time to react
- It teases the shooter with extra scoring space
- All of the above
What can be a downside to the Paddle Down move?
- It becomes a habit
- It makes recovery difficult due to the amount of forward weight
- Nothing, it protects the bottom of the net perfectly
- The momentary loss of coverage when the blade leaves the ice
- All of the above
- Only A, B, D
Where should goalies make the majority of their glove saves?
- In front of their body
- Beside the body
- Doesn't matter as long as it is an awesome windmill save
- At the top of the crease
What must coaches know in order to help goalies to improve:
- How the NHL goalies play
- The essential core goaltending skills (technical requirements) of the position as well as their acquisition sequence from rudimentary to complex.
- The essential core goaltending skills and the ability to define the root cause of deficiencies
- How to play the game well from the perspective of a player
- ONLY B & C
What is the optimal situation for the goalie stick while in stance?
- Snug to the front of the skates and supporting 20% of the goalies weight
- On the heel, slightly angled to the blocker side
- Approximately 12 inches in front of the skates supporting about 5 lbs of weight and square to the body
- It doesn't really matter as long as they can react quickly
What technical factor most frequently causes a goalie to lose balance?
- The stick losing contact with the ice creating an imbalanced stance.
- Oversized pads
- Poor skate sharpening
- Lack of visual attachments to the puck
- All of the above
What is the ideal behaviour towards which the coach strives to train all goaltenders?
- That every save be made with the body centered on the puck, square to the net, and in perfect balance
- That the goalie learn to skate as fast as the players in drills
- That the goalie must win in order to play the next game
- That the goalie must have a great glove hand
- All of the above
14 What goalie specific skating techniques should be incorporated into every practice?
- Explosive power, T-pushes, edge transfers, toe pushes, balance recoveries and lateral shuffles
- Only shuffle steps, T-pushes and toe pushes are required
- The same as other players with some added T-push and recovery drills
- Standard skating with plenty of time waiting for the player drills to run
- Only A, B, C
15 What must be the dominant principle of your coaching?
- Respect the physical and psychological strengths of your goaltenders.
- Foster understanding of the goaltending skills and how to improve them
- Win at all cost
- All of the above
- Only a) and b) above

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