Nah, it sucks.
I'm assuming when you;re talking about technique you're referring to his positioning around the crease?
What about his recovery technique after committing to one play or falling on his belly or being out of position?
Are these things taught in the NA system? Or is it something that's left for the individual to figure out?
Was he ever told to practice his hand-eye coordination before?
See the problem isn't the positioning technique, the problem is that goalies are discouraged to use their reflexes in NA.
You mentioned Brobovsky....
Before the goal, hes tracking the puck, his feets are constantly moving, he's fast, recovers quickly and is ready almost immediately for the next shot. That's some solid goaltending on that play even if they got scored.
Positioning is much deeper then you’re making it out to be. The way you’re writing it, it seems you think it’s about cutting off an angle and that’s it. That’s part of it, but that’s not what I’m referring too when I talk about goalies being molded to play like him. His stance, vision, ability to the read the puck off a stick, ability to read the play, and act as an active 6th defenseman is what I was getting at. Bobrovsky is incredibly athletic, but you can’t teach that. You can do a number of different things to try and enhance that area of their game, but more often it’s more of a gift. Hasek is arguably the best goaltender to play the game and his entire style was built off athleticism. But you won’t find many, if any people saying they tried to teach a goaltender to play like Hasek.
As far as recovery, one of the biggest luxery’s of his style is he doesn’t have too near as often because he’s in position most of the time and when he does get caught, he usually doesn’t have to move much to recover. If you want a few flaws for Bobrovsky, it’s that he can be overactive and slow reading the play leading to him having to make those acrobatic saves to compensate. You can argue Price’s size has a lot to do with how he plays and why he’s successful but how many goalies under 6’2 have entered the league in the last 5-10 years? Saros? And how many are left? A handful? The position has evolved to bigger guys who can cover as much net as possible and give shooters as little to look at and Price when on his game does that better then anyone and it seems to be a popular opinion as well as it often gets mentioned by a variety of different sources and if you’ve ever been around goalie camps in North America, you’d know it’s not just Montreal media bias.
It’s seems you’re fixated on speed, agility, athleticism, etc. Those are all essential traits to have, and I know you’ll never admit to Price having any of them, but he does. There isn’t a goalie in the league that doesn’t regardless if some are more gifted then others. He isn’t a simple puck stopper like a Niemi or Halak. I’ve said it before in previous posts, he isn’t worried about just stopping the first or second puck, he’s a step ahead and thinking about what comes after he does.
You and all the other fans that dislike Price can hate on him until your hearts content and call me a ****rider if you feel fit too. But he’s a very good goalie. He didn’t have it last year. He had more holes in his game at the end of the season then when it started. I don’t know the extent of your experience in hockey, but if you’ve played, you’ve likely had a coach tell you you’re trying to hard or something along those lines. And if you don’t know what that means, it means you’re overthinking the game which leads to fighting the puck or if you’re a goal scorer, gripping your stick to tight. When I watched him last year, that’s what I saw. A goalie with not a whole lot of confidence going threw the motions. I don’t know what’ll happen in the future, given his cap, I don’t know why you’d want to see him fail.