Your Beer League Goalie Simply Could Never
You want to talk about heroes? You've got doctors, you've got firemen, you've got beer league hockey goalies.
These are guys who willingly step between the pipes each week for a 9:45pm puck drop fully knowing that there won't be a lick of defense being played all night. They are just going to get shelled with odd man rushes from the opening puck drop to that final buzzer. They're old. They're tired. They're still using the same set of pads they had in their last game of competitive ice hockey 15 years ago in high school. It's a thankless job. But without the beer league goalies, there is no beer league.
So you have to give these guys a little leeway when they end up letting a soft goal from the opposite side of the redline in. You have to give these guys a little leeway when the game starts in 5 minutes and they literally just showed up to the rink. Beer leagues need goalies more than goalies need beer league. But this goalie right here?
This is a guy who still comes to play every week like there are scouts in the stands. The type of goalie who probably shows up an unimaginable 45 minutes before each game so that he can do the few stretches in his warm up routine. I bet he doesn't even start drinking until halfway through the 2nd period. That's how much the game means to him and it shows.
Also, just classic classic beer league here where the goalie bails out his team with a massive save and then is immediately repaid with a turnover that leads to another point blank shot. Goalie goes full Dominik Hasek here and his defenseman can't even give him the courtesy of immediately launching the puck down the other end for an icing to get a stoppage of play.
The roll, the split. Most beer league goalies would need approximately 3-5 weeks to recover from something like that. This beauty just stays in the game like it's nothing.