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Whatever option you choose, I learned that the most important thing in this situation by far is that your stick is covering your 5 hole. When I first adopted the butterfly, my biggest problem was keeping my stick at my 5 hole. I would turn it to my side ala Giguere. I was getting beat 5 hole pretty bad on breakaways and close in shots. I disciplined myself to keep the stick there and it solved my problem real fast. As the pads drop and rotate the outer edges are going to contact the ice first and make its way up to the thighrises on your way down, however, your stick is already there where the thighrises are so basically, you got the hole ice sealed before you even fully execute the butterfly. (If you can understand that)
I personally prefer going full butterfly because if the shooter makes a hard cut, its easier to go into the splits from the full butterfly than the half butterfly and cover the low posts.
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