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Some random thoughts.
1) Your glove position will vary as you develop and even during a season as you respond to success or failures. It is the same as a golfer adjusting their swing or their putting technique because what they were doing wasn't working.
2) If it is working for you at the level of play you are currently in stay with it.
Keep in mind that as players improve your approach may have to change with your glove position.
3) Your glove position will (should) change in your stance depending on the depth of the puck.
4) The glove's position serves a dual purpose. a) effectiveness as it relates to biomechanical response, b) visual discouragement to the shooter.
This visual discouragement occurs within the shooters visual triangle as opposed to the shooters actual shooting triangle.
5) Good shooters study your glove position and will modify their attempts based on perception.
6) Side body glove position ( on a plane with the body) makes it very tough to pull pucks off your pads and catch pucks before they hit your pads.
7) Both pictures at the start of the thread display acceptable glove positions.
8) I trust we aren't advocating the palm facing the ceiling approach! If so please show me a picture of an NHL goalie with this approach.
Keeks
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One of more important quotes in one of the threads I listed that I doubt most of you have read.