Forget about Buddy's. Get a pizza at Michigan & Trumbull Pizza (1331 Holden St) and take it across the street to Cabin North Brewing. In the Eastern Market area there's Full Measure Brewing. They're open for lunch and have good food and good beer. (Try the lamburger)
Follow-up to the posts/crossbars question: do goalies think they can tell whether an incoming shot is going to hit the post or crossbar and intentionally let it go, or are those shots that the goalie should attempt to make contact on?
In other words, from a process perspective, when the puck hits a post does that mean the goalie misplayed the shot and got lucky it was just an inch off target, or does it mean they played it exactly right.
I'd guess that it's situational, but tends towards misplaying. Even if they think they know it's going to hit the post, I'd think goalie's prefer a rebound they can direct themselves to a haphazard carom off of a post.
From my beer league experience, no. You try to save everything, control the chaos. Even if something is going wide, you typically try to catch/corral it to avoid chaos.
My question would be is more so looking at our goalies who are better positioned rewarded with more posts/cross bars than those who aren’t.
That matches with what you've said previously about goalies as chaos controllers.
I can say from a (public) stats perspective that allowing a higher percentage of shots to hit the post is associated with allowing a higher percentage of shots to become goals, which suggests to me that it isn't a trade-off, but two measurements of the same outcome/skill (making contact). I'm looking forward to hearing if goalies/coaches think that differs by style though.
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Forget about Buddy's. Get a pizza at Michigan & Trumbull Pizza (1331 Holden St) and take it across the street to Cabin North Brewing. In the Eastern Market area there's Full Measure Brewing. They're open for lunch and have good food and good beer. (Try the lamburger)
Follow-up to the posts/crossbars question: do goalies think they can tell whether an incoming shot is going to hit the post or crossbar and intentionally let it go, or are those shots that the goalie should attempt to make contact on?
In other words, from a process perspective, when the puck hits a post does that mean the goalie misplayed the shot and got lucky it was just an inch off target, or does it mean they played it exactly right.
I'd guess that it's situational, but tends towards misplaying. Even if they think they know it's going to hit the post, I'd think goalie's prefer a rebound they can direct themselves to a haphazard carom off of a post.
From my beer league experience, no. You try to save everything, control the chaos. Even if something is going wide, you typically try to catch/corral it to avoid chaos.
My question would be is more so looking at our goalies who are better positioned rewarded with more posts/cross bars than those who aren’t.
That matches with what you've said previously about goalies as chaos controllers.
I can say from a (public) stats perspective that allowing a higher percentage of shots to hit the post is associated with allowing a higher percentage of shots to become goals, which suggests to me that it isn't a trade-off, but two measurements of the same outcome/skill (making contact). I'm looking forward to hearing if goalies/coaches think that differs by style though.