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ok heres the thing about reference points
1. you should treat them as zones, the puck will rarely be exactly on a number so you should just be aware of the zone the puck is in as stated generally you use 2 shuffles to a zone.
2. The major knock on reference points is if you go to different rinks where the points are different because of odd rink dimensions. Based on op's post im assuming you only play at 1 rink, so thats not a problem. Also, its not something to be constantly checking, its more of something to be generally aware of and to check if you think youve lost your angle. In game its more of an automatic thing. Also, I would argue that once goalies get to a certain level where their traveling around with the exception of very low level travel that you get to a point where you have a feel for the reference points and will inately know if there off. That is, your aware of the reference points but positioning is based more on feel and experiance.
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