Pacific Coast Goaltending - South

The save starts before the butterfly. 🥅

Kyle Jones ( Moose Jaw Warriors ) working through a progression on tracking and shifting from a tall stance.

The keys:
• Start with your eyes and head.
• Let the puck travel.
• Stay tall—don’t collapse your stance early.
• Tuck the chin as the puck approaches.
• Explode into the butterfly from the top of your stance.

As your spine naturally comes forward with the puck, your body shifts into the save and fills more net where the shot actually arrives.

Train the movement. Don’t chase the puck.

working on some patience here, which is probably one of the more difficult things to work on as a goalie. Too often you hear coaches with no goalie background yelling for goalies to be “quicker” or to “move more” in the crease. In reality, unnecessary movement wastes energy and can actually hurt a goalie’s effectiveness.

Elite goaltending isn’t about constant movement — it’s about filling the net, staying controlled, and moving efficiently once the puck is released and the read is clear.