This season at Pucks of A Feather, we’re taking an in-depth look at a variety of different aspects of hockey through our series Hockey 201. Today I’m going to cover the butterfly style/ technique that been the norm in the goaltending world for going on three decades.
For starters, the basis of the butterfly style is fairly simple. The whole point of the butterfly is to drop both knees down to the ice to wall out the bottom portions of the net when a shot is incoming. Its pretty much the basis and starting point of making any and all saves with your pads.