6:27 The instant replay system that is now practically required across all sports broadcasts was, you guessed it, created initially for hockey.

A puck tracking exercise goalies do is watching light reflections dart around the arena, usually controlled by their coach.

Gives you an idea of the kind of visual acuity and reflexes we're actually talking about.

Goalies are a different breed, equal parts insanity and athleticism.

It's a well known phenomenon among hockey fans that goalies, especially the best goalies, are just a little different than most.

I'm so happy you chose goalie highlights because it's always scoring highlights. These demons in the net are not always just lucky, their hand-eye coordination and reflexes are otherwordly. I played as a goalie until I was 17 and had a bad knee injury, and still remember all the bruises from shots you took, padding or not (90's pads). I can only imagine the NHL power

Bro I'm a goalie and comparing it with Cricket is wildly different, you have so much time to track the ball in cricket!! Great video man, appreciate the reaction!

You need to watch Dominick Hasek career highlights if you want to see crazy goalie saves.

Hockey goalies combine traits of Soccer Keepers , First Baseman & Gymnasts while on Ice & skates .

3:40 As a Canadian, the only hockey I ever played was street hockey until I was about 11 or 12 years old. But it was always tough to find a second goalie!

(I wasn't any good, but I was willing to stand in the net with a goalie's stick, 2 pairs of sweatpants, and a baseball glove for gear 😂)

Now you should watch the exact opposite, "Goals Of The Decade 2010-2019." Mind blowing, just like this one is.

That penalty you asked about looks like a slash as Raantanen got around the defender. You can see the defender caught Raantanen with his stick.

There's definitely some similarities between goalie and an up close fielder (like third baseman or pitchers fielding their position in baseball, or bowler catches in cricket) but I dare say the puck is often coming just as fast and from far closer; the goalies often don't have time to react to the movement of the puck, they have to react to the position of the player's stick and the puck going towards it and basically guess where the puck is going.

The kind of luck you get when you've been playing the sport since you were 3 years old.  I'm from northern Minnesota, these guys had 10 years experience by the time they entered their teens.

There is old newsreel footage online of hockey from the 1930s to the 1950s.  The goalies didn't wear masks!  The wooden sticks didn't allow players to shoot as hard, but it was still brave.

goalies are a special breed

You should watch the SCTV skit with John Candy. The last hockey goalie who played in net without head protection. He saves most of the goals with his face, hilarious.

When I was a youngster, playing goalie was my favorite thing to do.

4:09 If you watch the ref at the ref at the bottom of the screen, you can see that he sticks his arm straight up, which signifies that there’s a penalty. It looks like he sticks his arm up as soon as the puck carrier skates past the last defenseman. There’s a split second where the last defenseman gets his stick up into the hands of the puck carrier, which is slashing.

A slash according to the NHL rulebook: 61.1 Slashing - Slashing is the act of a player swinging his stick at an opponent, whether contact is made or not. Non-aggressive stick contact to the pant or front of the shin pads, should not be penalized as slashing. Any forceful or powerful chop with the stick on an opponent’s body, the opponent’s stick, or on or near the opponent’s hands that, in the judgment of the Referee, is not an attempt to play the puck, shall be penalized as slashing.

The penalty happens when the player named Rantanen breaks free from the Defenseman. The defenseman turns around and tries to hook his stick under his armpit to take him down or slow him down. It is a penalty called hooking and can be called when it happens on your wrists too.

Goalies are allowed to leave their net as long as they dont cross the middle line (also a few years ago they added restricted zone on the side behind their net because some goalies were getting too good at controlling the puck there)

Naturally some of these saves are one might call 'luck', but you make your own luck.  That luck was created by years of experience, anticipation, and understanding patterns.  Sometimes they didn't see the puck, but they 'made themselves big' as they call it here.  Tried to take up as much of the net as possible, and that takes all of what I just described. Brilliant stuff in my opinion, and I've been watching hockey for more than 40 years. Go Penguins!!!