Did you even read the article? I don’t think so.
He doesn’t claim that goalies should always be on their knees, but rather than it’s common for them to do so, exploring the reasons why.
He doesn’t claim that goalies should always be on their knees, but rather than it’s common for them to do so, exploring the reasons why.
It’s an article in the The Atlantic, not a formal proof.
Every NHL goalie plays much of the game on their knees, as they should, because they end up there in response to low shots and close-approaching shooters. What Dryden is wrong to imply is that they should adopt this as their default posture.
As I reread I see that even worse, he downplays the danger of adopting this position leading to taking a slap shot to the helmet, saying a modern goalie mask protects the head "as much as a catching glove does the hand". Just utterly false. https://www.tsn.ca/nhl-concerned-by-rise-in-goalie-concussio...