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Show him.
I coach adult beginners. Luckily, my goalies have pretty much known what to do from watching goalies at higher levels but of course fine-tuning is needed to get them out of the beginning league. Angle is tough to teach because most people naturally want to sit deep in the crease and square up to the body. One thing I did recently at a practice was making the goalie get down in the butterfly in the crease. With the puck in the slot area. Using my stick I illustrated the angle that the puck was seeing, which obviously showed how much net was open.
Now leaving the puck in the same area, I had him move out to the top of the crease and again showed him the angle... Of course there is less net showing. He got it pretty quickly. While the rest of the team was doing skating drills I worked with him and made him come out to challenge me as I shot pucks on him. Of course, for confidence sake a lot of my shots were at his chest, glove or blocker. His first season in net and he was clearly better than half the goalies in the league. He attributes it to me working with him, I attribute it to his hard work and above the level skating ability. Sadly, his wife dropped the hammer and cut his nights available to play, which he chose against goaltending at a low level for playing forward at a higher level.
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