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Hello I will try my best to help out with this problem you are having...
First, it is extremely important that you use and maintain proper butterfly technique with the hands forward, stick on the ice, thighs tight together, while keeping the upper body high. The butterfly maintains the same line of the basic stance with the shoulders over the knees and the knees over the toes; the only difference is obviously the knees are no longer over the toes.
After the save is made make sure you turn your head to the next target, before you begin your next movement. This is the visual lead. Always give yourself a purpose to your movements by picking a target like a piece of ice, pile of snow, faceoff dot or your most important target, a puck to move to.
Next, you need to drive your push leg up, while keeping the upperbody high, so that the back of your thigh rise is in line with the pectoral muscle on the same side as the push leg. So essentially your knee is in front of you.
Your skates need to be perpendicular to the direction in which you want to go towards. Your skate blade must be in full contact with the ice and must push evenly. Pushing off with your toes and a drive leg that is not perpendicular to your direction of movement, could be why you are spinning. Another reason could be that your drive knee does not come in front of the pectoral on the pushing leg side. If you combine the problems above with a lowered upperbody the problems begin to multiply. Keep the upperbody high the whole time.
Now, once you start to push the lead leg needs to be flared without being uncomfortable, this is where the flexibility of a wide butterfly may come in handy. A flared lead leg provides less resistance, less snow-piling, than a lead that is not flared.
I watched the Wogtech video and found only one area we disagree with which is that the lead leg's knee should NOT come off the ice, even for a split second which is more than enough time for an attacker to slide the puck in. Keep a tight seal with the ice through the whole push.
Once the push is complete, quickly bring in the pushing leg for a tight seal. The whole time proper butterfly basics must be kept.
On the discussion of strength and power. Power takes time to develop. We usually try to get the proper technique down and then work towards adding more power in combination with proper technique which is a lethal combination. We have an 11 year old female student who had this all figured out this winter and just two weekends ago were working with two of the best young female goalies in Saskatchewan and neither of them were very big. You will be able to get this down, just be patient. Once the movement is done correctly try to remember the feeling physically and mentally of that accomplishment and do some extra reps, if possible, to ensure the neural pathways are created.
Marking, here I come.
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