i really like this picture from member lukephillips
its been 10 years since ive been to a goalie school but its pretty clear how things have changed since then. Now a days even in the nhl you see the stick flopping way off to the side and keepers expecting the pads to do all of the closure.
Pads back then always had a little bit of a gap in the middle so the one thing above all else that i remember getting told over and over again is stick on the ice between your legs.
It seems that the art of the semi-butterfly is almost long gone. A lot of goalies now a days that are flexible enough to do what is generally reffered to as a wide butterfly (completly 90 degree covering the bottom of the net) and to me that still seems weird.
it seems like that style of butterfly is an "im just going to drop to the ice cover as much as i can and hope it hits me" style of goaltending.
The semi or standard butterfly that i learned is a more of a read and react type game. If you sense its about to come off the stick to your left pad its a butterfly out of your right and a more straight out to the left. Allows your stick to cover the bottom of the ice and your pad to drop up or down as needed.
anyways just wanted to give props to that picture for awesome form, nice butterfly with the stick where it should be, on the ice and between your legs. Dont care how well your pads close theres still a gap the size of a puck there and see too many nhl tenders getting beat by something that i remember as being the most basic lesson i was ever tought.
i just put this in another thread but a great example, clearly his stick is a little off the ice because of adjusting for where the shot went
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