Goalie Pet Peeves

[pradselost]

1. My number one pet peeve has got to be when players take slapshots from about 5 feet out and right at my head. The majority of the players I've played with have no idea how to control their slap shot and have only learned how to make it go high. Even when we practice deflections, these guys will rifle it over the net repeatedly.

2. There's a guy I play against that always has his mouth open whenever he has the puck. He'll come into the zone, deking around like he's an NHL allstar, all the while with this shocked look on his face, like he can't believe his (he thinks) slick moves. I'd think he was doing it on purpose to be obnoxious, if he wasn't such an obvious idiot that he can't control it.

3. This same player will literally stand still in the offensive blueline, waiting for a pass, and bang his stick on the ice while his team tries to play defense.

4. I'm usually early for pickup so I'll go right along the boards outside of the bench and start stretching. The zamboni driver (who is already off the ice) will freak out, screaming at me to get off the ice - buddy, it's not like I'm even skating around, for pete's sake.

5. For whatever reason, the pro shop at my local rink only carries junior goalie stuff. I know I'm in Las Vegas, Nevada, so I can't expect much...but they have about 15 junior goalie jocks on display, which have been sitting there since roughly 2003.

6. Players in Las Vegas have some sort of primal need to lie about their play level. I'll be sitting in the locker room and some guy will go "Oh yeah, you know...hockey here just isn't the same as it was back when I was playing for Minnesota's farm team two seasons ago." Mind you, the person saying this is a poorly coordinated, quite possibly physically handicapped, 320 lummox wearing a helmet two sizes too small, a pair of hockey pants two sizes too big, and tube skates.
I'll say Oh, where in Minnesota? "Oh...Northern Minnesota." Ah, I've heard it's so nice up there. Trees and such. What team did you play for? "The um, Minnesota Wild Farm team." No kidding? The Duluth Icecaps? "Oh yeah, that's them. I'm here for reconditioning". Yeah, I can imagine it's hard to get conditioned for a team that doesn't exist. Seriously, just because I play in Las Vegas doesn't mean that I know absolutely nothing about the rest of the hockey world.

[darien.30]

Originally Posted by badourscp1

dont even get me started with this....

how on my team u get to only pick from #1 or #30 for your jersey

no snow in the crease

i hate people who celebrate in practice, like hurray for u, u scored in PRACTICE, good job, god forbid u ever score in a game

i cant have any pucks in my net ever or i get mad

it just depresses me when my ****ty-ass D-men cough up the freakin puck every time they try to break out, and then the guy comes down, i save the first 3, then he snipes and they just stand there like f***ing retards.

another one is that theres this one f*** on my team who has the hardest slapshot and thinks hes 'all that' and in every warm-up takes slapshots from the hash-marks right at my face... i hate it, f***ing hate it
mad:
theres more but ill stop now

i know who ur talking about haha

[goalies-r-us]

Originally Posted by hroark2112

Cary Price was 8 years old once too

LOL -- I'll keep that in mind. And if my Dom's playing in The Show in a couple decades, I'll come back here and retract my statement. Deal?

But until then, I think that ANYONE who tries to force any 8yo child to play just one position (contrary to the kid's stated desires--it's something else entirely if the kid only likes one position) in ANY sport is a complete and utter moron.

Seriously, if their third friggin' tournament championship trophy was so effin' important to them, I'd have spent the $20 to buy them another friggin' trophy -- heck, I'd even have it engraved with their team name for no extra charge instead of the generic "Mite Champions" nameplate on their other tourney trophies.

[dmax35]

I hate jack-holes messing with my gear, especially trying my glove on.

[the_chief1]

- i hate when i get the pucks out of the net after a drill or something in practice, and guys shoot them back in the net, or at my back when I'm turned around

- people at practice that take slapshots from the hashmarks

- playing in crappy rinks, or in the summer when its really hot and the ice is bad and its hard to slide

-playing in rinks with really small locker rooms

-when team mates that know nothing about goaltending try give you "tips"

[badourscp1]

Originally Posted by dmax35

I hate jack-holes messing with my gear, especially trying my glove on.

same here man... then they try to make amazing saves with it with my ball but they suck ass

[Raptor]

I hate guys on the team touching my gear. Trying on the gloves, massive D-men picking up my leg pads and saying "geez you're awfully short, har har har", playing with my stick. I'm really picky about my equipment and the last thing I need is random skaters rifling through it for their own amusement.

Slapshots in horseshoe warmup. Jesus Christ, I've just gotten on the ice, WHY are you trying to kill me? A guy hit me square in the throat with a slapshot during the first warmup of a match a couple of months ago and sent me to hospital.

Opposing forwards who hack at my hands and wrists when I cover the puck. I'm not a professional, neither are you. We both have jobs. I'd like to go to my job with both of my hands tomorrow.

When I let a goal in and a defender skates up to me and says "You should have dropped quicker". NO, REALLY?! Well DONE Mr Holmes.

Referees who don't stop the play when I get hit in the face by a direct shot. If I'm hit by a light deflection or something, I don't expect a whistle. But recently I was hit square between the eyes by a wild shot while down on my knees, hard enough to actually knock me back into the goal. No whistle, the puck bounced into the net and a goal was awarded.


..Lol, I got surprisingly mad while writing that

[Twitch]

Originally Posted by Raptor

Referees who don't stop the play when I get hit in the face by a direct shot. If I'm hit by a light deflection or something, I don't expect a whistle. But recently I was hit square between the eyes by a wild shot while down on my knees, hard enough to actually knock me back into the goal. No whistle, the puck bounced into the net and a goal was awarded.

this is one rule that drives me nuts about european hockey..
i've had my cage mangled by more slapshots than i could count and i've never had a whistle from any of them..

[Raptor]

As I said, if a shot just bounces off my face I don't care, but if it's a hard enough hit to knock me straight over, I think a whistle is warranted no matter where you're playing.

[Just.Ice]

'helpful' () defencemen who, right after they've given up a breakaway where i get scored on, suggest i try a poke check next time....

[xethicx]

One thing that makes me angry is when people ask about my mask/gear and I tell them how much I paid and what kind of stuff I have they say "you paid THAT MUCH for gear to play scrub and pick up hockey?". What? because I play scrub and pickup I should be wearing some cheap POS itech with some stickers on it and maybe some old stand up Cooper pads or something? I cant enjoy my hobby?

I will ALWAYS follow up their comment by asking what their hobby is, one guy said dirtbiking so I asked him if he was a pro and he laughed and said "no just a weekend warrior" so I asked him "what kind of bike?" he said he had a 2006 Kawasaki KX 125 and went on to tell me about the performance mods and so on and I stopped him and said... "you spent THAT MUCH just ride in a gravel pit with your buddies?".. he laughed and said... fair enough.

[xethicx]

Originally Posted by Just.Ice

'helpful' () defencemen who, right after they've given up a breakaway where i get scored on, suggest i try a poke check next time....

lol I have a guy at one of my groups that likes to be all competitive but doesnt like to play any defense at all. Whenever I give up a goal he is always the FIRST guy back to get the puck and he always has some sort of a goaltending tip for me.

I didnt know the guys real well when I started playing with them so I would just shut up and play but after like 10 ice times with em I skated after him and yelled "HEY coach Tips, you wanna do me a favour and either play some defense or STFU?" and he says "Im a forward" and so I said "No youre a cherry picking pylon that can only score on a breakaway, if you dont like the way I play goal, Ive got plenty of other groups I can wreck my body playing with without complaints every time I let a goal in during a SCRUB HOCKEY GAME"

After that he never said a word.

[MetropolisPt31]

Originally Posted by pradselost

2. There's a guy I play against that always has his mouth open whenever he has the puck. He'll come into the zone, deking around like he's an NHL allstar, all the while with this shocked look on his face, like he can't believe his (he thinks) slick moves. I'd think he was doing it on purpose to be obnoxious, if he wasn't such an obvious idiot that he can't control it.

Ville Nieminen?

[Goats34]

Originally Posted by MetropolisPt31

Ville Nieminen?

Ya, Ville is my pet peeve, too.

[Eidolon]

Originally Posted by Goats34

Ya, Ville is my pet peeve, too.

+1

Those pics made my day.