It was Bob Mason, the goaltending coach for Deutsch's hometown NHL team, the Minnesota Wild.
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"We've gotten solid goaltending or timely scoring or great defensive plays, " Bruins coach Claude Julien said.
In fact, Quick's goaltending coach, Bill Ranford, said he wouldn't teach a young goalie to play like Brodeur.
The Lightning land goaltending help in Bishop, who was expendable in Ottawa.
Syracuse converted just 1 of 8 free throws in the closing minutes and Georgetown tied it at 50 when Bouie was called for goaltending.
Boston won in six games, taking the finale 3-0 behind the goaltending of Gerry Cheevers, two goals by Wayne Cashman and one by Bobby Orr.
Most befuddling, though, is why NHL general managers continue to overpay for goaltending, one of the most inconsistent positions and riskiest investments in professional sports.
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"Goaltending is the big thing, " said Arron Asham, a fourth-line winger whose goal gave him a pair for the series, twice as many as two-time NHL MVP Ovechkin.
Syracuse converted just 1 of 8 free throws in the closing minutes and Georgetown tied it at 50 in the final minute when Bouie was called for goaltending.
DePaul was called for offensive goaltending on its next possession.
The Steelers defence is now complete with Kevin Reiter and Dan Green sharing goaltending duties, and Bolibruck, Scott Basiuk, Randy Dagenais, Mark Thomas and Ben Morgan patrolling the blue line.
Mitch Korn, Nashville's goaltending coach, said that gradual improvements in goaltenders' equipment over time have all but eliminated the pain and risk of injury that were once intrinsic to the position.
In the equivalent of more than a quarter 15:43 to be exact Atlanta went 1 of 21 from the field, the only basket awarded to Harris on a goaltending call against Hibbert.
That and the goaltending of Evgeni Nabokov were enough for the Islanders, the seventh-place team in the Eastern Conference, to improve to 8-1-1 in their last 10 and keep pace with sixth-place Ottawa, which won at Philadelphia.
In fact, the Penguins' first-round series last year against the Philadelphia Flyers may have featured the worst goaltending rivalry in recent NHL history, as both Fleury and the Flyers' Ilya Bryzgalov were on their way to joining the 40-7 Club.
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He was a late bloomer, becoming Boston's starter at age 31, and rather than employ more traditional goaltending techniques (the butterfly style, for instance), Thomas relied on his athleticism and aggressiveness to make saves, using whatever body part happened to be handy to stop the puck.
And Henrik Lundqvist, having been on the bench for an extra attacker when Campbell scored with 50.4 seconds left in regulation, trudged back toward the net, swinging his legs slowly as if they were leaden, only to return to the bench seconds later to bury his head in his bulky goaltending gloves.
As a boy, Stolarz had followed in the footsteps of his older brother Todd, who himself was a junior-level goalie and acted as Anthony's personal coach, familiarizing him with the basics of goaltending techniques and styles, the two of them bonding as they watched old films of Brodeur and Ron Hextall on the family television.
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