Malaka
you know, **** it, let’s just not think so much
You say this and at the same time Ian Clark(literally wrote the book standardizing goaltending coaching with #scientification) is spitting in the leagues face coaching a third string goaltender into the WCF.The goaltending position is dead as we once knew it. It's a mix between the contrived push for 'higher scoring' and the 'scientification' of the position. The best goaltenders that have ever stepped on the ice were playing 'jazz' while almost everyone today is reading off of sheet music - if that makes any sense. There is very little to no 'flow' or 'soul' to the position any more. It's all practiced and repeated movements/actions burned into them through schools and academies. Robotic almost and that's why it almost always feels uninspired and soulless.
There will never be another Hasek/Roy/Brodeur/Belfour. The 'system' won't allow it.
The problem isn’t the players unable to play jazz, it’s the f***in conductors pretending to be goalie whisperers who should be selling stamps at a post office.