The ice hockey goaltendee is the most difficult position in all of sport

REFUTATIONS"About the puck being one eighth the size of the hockey net, a 3x1 puck which is 3 inches in area. And a 4'x6' net which has an area of 24ft, which calculated is to be 288in in area. So what you said is that 1/8 is equivalent to 3/288, which is obviously wrong. The puck takes up 1.01% of the net. While in soccer the net has an area of 196ft, while the ball is 27" in circumference which is 1.1% of the net, giving the hockey goaltender the advantage in this catagorie. Plus you even admitted " A soccer goalie already covers almost the whole net! " I didn't realise my huge math error, and I apologize. However, even with this, the hockey goalie still covers most of the net, allowing less than 8 places to shoot. Also, since you are skating, and far from the net in many cases with people blocking your view, it is extremly hard to aim. As you can see, he covers most of the net, so either way you only have 8 chances of scoring. Also, he can easily move his entire body 1 way in order to stop the puck. Even with only a split second to think, his body can easily move 1 way and block anything coming from this area. I apologize for the error, I meant hockey players already cover most of the net. Him covering most of the net, and the difficulty to shoot makes this a very easy role. That also explains why scores in hockey games consist of a minimum amount. "When i say that skating is not in another sports, i meant ice skating, which eliminates 80% of the sports you listed, and a for the other 20% none require as much mental toughness as the hockey goaltender which i will explain in a little bit. When the author says "easy practice=easy game, that is for any sport, if i work hard in practice the games will come easy to me, but if i slack around in practice, then the games will be very hard. What he didn't mention is the mental toughness of the goalie. "The goalie has one of the most mentally demanding positions in any sport. When you combine the speed and mental skills required of a goalie with the danger of the sport, ice hockey is tops"(. http://www.podiumsportsjournal.com....... )" Let me point out that first of all your source is uncredible. I wasn't even able to acces it due to the malware inside of it. This enough proves that the website has unsafe content, meaning the things on this website are false. And also, in hockey goaltending you don't need to practice hard. For example, when hockey goaltenders come back from an injury the only go to 2 practices, and boom they are back on their feet and amazing again. Why? Because goaltending is easy. I, a goaltender myself in soccer, hockey and la crosse even know hockey is the easiest one to be goalie know. The so called "mental" requirements are in all other sports, and in fact other sports require more. In hockey, you already cover most of the net. Your reflexes already do all the work, your mentality practically does nothing. However, in sports like soccer, you need to estimate trick shots, tips, and where in your huge net they are going to score. Seeing that soccer scores go up to 8 points compared to the hockey 1 point already shows that soccer is harder to goaltend in. This is proof enough hockey isn't the hardest sport to goaltend in. "Oh yea, by the way, goaltenders do not take up all of the net and do move a lot. If you ever go to a practice, you will see goalies always working on their movement. Because if you don't work on your movement then you can never get over to save puck on a one timer. Plus goalie pads are getting smaller and smaller which is fine with me, but big pads don't really matter when sticks help you shoot precisely ever time. " Are you crazy? Goaltenders in hockey barely move. Here is the so called practice I have been to. . http://www.youtube.com... Yes they do move, but barely, they are in a small area slightly edging from one side to the other, they also bend down occasionally. ----------------- I would also like to point out one thing. It is impossible to compare different roles in sports to others. For example, you cannot compare an ice skater to a foot ball player and choose which one is better. This is because they have different roles, and do different things which are both hard in their own way. So it is impossible for you to compare hockey goaltending to all sport positions. Because of such, your stance has been deamed impossible to win. In conclusion, hockey goaltending is actually quite easy. Not too much physical extersion. Also, they are heavily paddded, preventing them from almost no pain. Furthermore, they barely move and already cover most of the net. I, and many other goaltenders even agree it's not that hard. It doesn't require as much energy as running a marathon per say. Also, it doesn't recieve as much pain as wrestling. Since many sports goalies are already harder to do, and it is impossible to compare hockey to the rest of the sports, it is impossible for you to prove hockey goaltending is the hardest of all positions.