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Tuesday, 22 Betteroff 2011

In light of recent events (particularly the incident where Milan Lucic of Boston flattened Ryan Miller of Buffalo and put him out with a concussion), the Funny Farm Security Service would like to offer the following advice to the rest of the goalies in the NHL:

You are amongst the largest players on the ice. You have a lot of equipment on to protect you from getting hurt on the ice. Utilize your advantages. When they take a run at you, brace yourself and take them out instead of letting them hit you.

I can guarantee that, once a goalie has established that he will be one of the ones doing the checking, players will think twice about running them over.

Full disclosure: I have played all positions on the ice, and was very much an in your face type of goalie who was body slamming anyone foolish enough to pull cheap shot crap like Lucic's while I was goaltending. Lucic would have been airborne and spinning upside down into the net, back first, if I was in Miller's skates that evening...