NHL goalies are showing remarkable skill and effectiveness, with the league-wide save percentage declining from .910 in 2019-20 to .900 this season. This decline is attributed to improved offensive strategies and the elite-level training of goaltenders, making clean shots harder to score. As a result, scorers like Sidney Crosby, Nikita Kucherov, William Nylander, and Kyle Connor are adapting by using deception to mislead goalies. Key phrases from dressing room conversations highlight the challenges of getting past modern netminders, emphasizing the importance of screening and positioning in scoring.
Modern goalies are such good skaters that they're usually in excellent position, giving shooters very little net to shoot at. They've trained their entire lives, specializing in reading shots.
If they see the shot, they stop it. To an extent, these commonly-used phrases are true. Today's elite scorers find ways to use these goalies' reads against them.
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