Goalies Have it Hard at Minnesota's Elite Tryouts?
by , 08-03-2011 at 12:02 AM (311 Views)
On July 12th and the 19th, Minnesota girls came together for 1 hour and 30 minutes to showcase their talent. With 6 goalies on ice we each faced 12 warm up shots then got right into scrimmaging. Each goalie got 2 rotations of 7 minutes and 2 rotations of 5 minutes. Needless to say goalies saw less then 6 shots during the whole scrimmage. I played the puck 10 times and only failed 2 times at passing, I also skated as hard as I could to get to the other end. With only allowing 1 goal and one bad postioning save I find it hard for myself to showcase my talent on such limited shots. There was 6 sessions and I'm not sure if each session had 6 goalies and if they faced more shots but I find it hard to believe that the judges could judge a goalie when they can barely see what the goalie has to offer. It would be fair if they do it like the Advanced program where they have it by sections and also have 3 tryout dates instead of 1


