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The best thing I read on the subject is "Butterfly is a save technique, not a goaltending style."
When I started playing hockey about twelve years ago, the descriptions of leg pads talked about butterfly, hybrid, and (not so much) stand-up styles, so I went and looked for information on what they were. My first team taught me stand-up, and I have an exceedingly goofy-looking photo of me from then. (No, I will not post it; you'll laugh "with" me.) Then I got a real goalie coach who taught me a better stance ... and then I moved to ice.
I've been to a number of different goalie clinics, and the coaches at a few of them have said something like this: "This weekend we will teach you some things. They may or may not be your style of play, and we don't care what you do after this camp. But try these techniques. If they work for you, great. If they don't, that's okay, too."
The first time I tried the butterfly save, my knees had words with me. We've come to an agreement: Half-V is as far as I'll go. At 47, I've got to work on a style that makes it look easy; no fancy saves like Hasek. It turns out that the "hybrid" "style", which is what my first camp taught me, works well for me.
YMMV.
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