Preparation time is limited. Three games in, you know the other guys better than you know your girlfriend. Oh, the other stuff is vital. Goalies defy logic. From the moment man crawled out of the swamp, he knew that when hard objects come at you at high speed, you get out of the way.
Goalies throw themselves IN the way.
And they WANT to. But if you want to swig beer out of the Stanley Cup, you'd better have a hot one. He had to be, because Eddie Belfour wasn't exactly sleeping in the other net. But the Eagle was also the guy whose tripping penalty set up the powerplay that Dan Cleary used to make it 1-1. He had another for roughing, later.