I say we take up a collection, and buy this goalie a beer

"McIntosh might just be seeing pucks coming at him in his sleep tonight after making an incredible 95 saves."

I remember Chugiak back in the late 70s had a couple very young kids on defense and their goalie, a good player named Brad Lepper, would get 40-50 saves a night. Got so bad the Daily News ran a feature on him. I learned a lot about hockey from watching that team - they lost most of the time, but they always played the right way, and never quit on themselves or each other.

This got me thinking...Lepper was very quick and athletic, but not a particularly big guy. It made me wonder what is the body type of the ideal hockey goalie. This is apparently not a commonplace thought: Google "ideal hockey goalie" --> zero hits.

I went and looked at the Hall of Game goalies. Here are the dimensions of some of them:
- Patrick Roy, 6-0, 175-192
- Grant Fuhr, 5-9, 190
- Billy Smith, 5-10, 185
- Vladislav Tretiak, 6-1, 200
- Ken Dryden, 6-4, 210
- Bernie Parent, 5-10, 180-185

Some of these guys could play tight end in the NFL, while others...absolutely could not. It seems pretty obvious that a pretty broad range of body types can be successful.

So what is the key to success? Canadian scientists have found the answer.