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This is going to be a terrible explanation but I'll try.
First, you must stay centered to the puck! That's the easy part. You always do that!
The second thing, though, is a little tough to explain. You have to play the angle right on a guy moving laterally. But if he is moving laterally, the angle is changing constantly as he moves to or away from the center of the net. And the "finished" product will look like you've made an arc rather than a straight line as you followed him across.
Let me explain this way. Say he starts at the wall on your right and skates a straight line through the faceoff dots across to the other wall. You would start off near the right goal post and as he skates across, you of course move across as well, but you also must move OUT to cut the angle as he gets more to the center ice. As he passes center and again starts getting close to the other wall, you still keep moving to the left of course but you also start "fading back" closer to the left pipe so he doesn't see your back door. As he approaches the wall you should again be deep in net near the post. Again, the motion is more arc-like.
Bernie
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