One of the byproducts of studying the goaltending position, and its minutiae, is that I spend an awful lot of time trying to understand why goals happen. I don’t focus so much on the systems aspect as much as I do the individual events that lead up to a specific goal. Sometimes a shot is perfectly placed, or the goalie is screened. Other times, a goalie might make a mistake in position or save selection. At all levels of hockey, though, many goals either happen, or they don’t, because of a confluence of events. We tend to call that “luck.
Breaking down film: Preventable bad luck against Price
