To be perfectly honest, the race by Rettke was very important, but I feel that Julie Finn's race was the best because she fought the pain and ran better than anybody expected. Hockey goalies wear all the pads to block pucks flying at 100 m.p.h., not to make it fun for offensive players to bounce off of them. With all due respect to offensive players, it's the defensive side that wins games. No team is stronger than its goalie, and therefore this position deserves the most amount of respect. Plowing into him is not a way to show this.
Goalies have enough work to do when players stay out of their way.
Probably because it's delusional to think that catching a puck is anything like catching a whiffle ball, and every hockey fan can understand that. Now imagine trying to catch that while you have someone skating at you from the side with no intention of stopping. Their job on the ice is to stop the puck, not block tackles. But for some reason, goalies have to deal with an oncoming offensive rush and still focus on a tiny black object no bigger than my own, miniature palm. Now I know hockey isn't figure skating.