Stephen Valiquette

And I did at least a two-day review on Dobish just to show him what he needed to adjust.

And this was just a part of working with a goalie that was playing wide in his stance because he watches Dobish a lot, like this happens.

And what I've seen is he's brought his feet under him at least another foot.

They made a goaltending coaching change, as the Islanders did, and it seemed to do something there as well.

And, you know, you don't know what it's like behind closed doors, but those two guys have a different look right now.

They look elite to me.

Yeah, you know what, Kipper?

For Vasilevsky, I think that he knows that he has to be better through traffic coming in from the point.

The scouting report on him for the last three years is going to be get traffic on him.

teams are trying to accomplish as they slide the blue line is to break the midpoint of the blue line and then send the puck back across the grain through a screen.

And against a big goalie like Vasilevsky, he still tends to have his head a little bit high, meaning his chin high, so the puck comes underneath his point of vision.

And what happens is he comes down to the ice with all of his force and it's like coming down like a ton of bricks.

And then his knees get apart and then he's swimming a little bit.

And if the puck hits the end boards or if it hits the pile of traffic on the weak side post, it's hard for him to make second and third saves.

So I think that if he understands where his strengths lie and how to play those

Yeah, she loves the thing about pick guys.

They've always been really bad defensively off the rush.

The last five years, they are always the worst team.

And I've talked to you guys many times about the challenges for goaltenders off the rush.

Now, since the Olympic break, they have the fifth best defense overall and fourth best rush defense.