Visual Attachment Waste (FuturePro Live)

Another superb analytical clip from NHL goalie coach Steve McKichan, illustrating two degrees of visual attachment to the puck.
At first, the goalie's visual attachment extends to recovering and repositioning to follow every single rebound with unwavering focus. As Keeks rightly points out, this is potentially wasteful of precious time on ice, especially in a team practise where the goalie is not always the focal point of the drill. (The key word there is 'potentially,' since there are goalie-specific drills in which following the visual attachment to the puck through to post-save recovery and repositioning are the entire point.)
In the latter half of the video, the goalie demonstrates purely visual attachment, which is always desirable: his eyes and head track every single puck off the stick to his body and through the rebound to wherever it falls. This degree of visual attachment is simply mandatory. (The only exception would lie in very poorly-designed and unsafe team drills where the goalie could be facing a second shot before he has time to turn his head. In this case, the goalie must sacrifice proper form in order to protect himself, and the coach is responsible for harming the goalie's development and risking safety either way.)
Originally posted by Steve McKichan for FutureProLive.com.

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so wrong!!!!