Universal thinking

I’m joking but I would probably pull my goalie trailing at any point in the third period and whenever my team was on a power play for 6-on-4

Im with on pulling the goalie earlier, but pulling the goalie on a power play means you leave an empty net with no downside for the defending team chucking it down the ice, since a short handed team can’t have icing called against them.

puck drop in the first period, establish dominance and confusion early

Go goalie-less on the Penalty Kill. Really show who’s boss.

On one of my son’s early travel teams, the coach had a rule: Be dressed 10 minutes before game time or you sit for the first two shifts. One game their goalie was late, so they played the first 10 minutes 6-on-5… when he went in, they had a 3-2 lead.

Miami (OH) in an NCAA tourney game once pulled the goalie with 12 minutes left down 6-2. They scored 3 unanswered goals before eventually giving up an empty netter with 7 seconds left. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQWQ...

I forget the year but in the NCAA Final someone pulled their goalie for like 12 minutes in the third down 6-2 and almost tied it

The correct coaching decision is whatever causes the announcers to repeat Bobrovsky's name as much as possible.

Coaches have come a long way on this, similar to analytics discussion on going for it on fourth down. Most never used to pull their goalie until inside the last minute or down by more than 1.

The strict statistics say pull goalie at 13 mins left papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Enjoy dense, PHD Level, Research

Either no goalies or 2 goalies, no in between

More people should think outside the box like this.

I used to operate the scoreboard for rec league games at a hockey arena. Every once in awhile, a team would play the whole game with an empty net because their goalie didn't show up. Usually meant chaos.

3 goalies

Air raid hockey

The best defense is a good offense

@kofie.bsky.social video idea?

Make the whole team out of pulled goalie

The analytics folks agree

If anyone should try this it’s the fuckin oilers.

Don't team handball squads routinely pull their goalie in the normal run of play? why not hockey?!?!

Because there’s routinely 25-35 goals in a handball game lol