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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clueless parent but if he and she the goalie is going going 0-7 or 0-8 it isn’t the team. [/quote]

How is it not on the team to score and level it up? The team has to score too. [/quote]

lol this post is obviously about saves vs shots. Not the score of the game.

Goalies are going to face shots. Acting like a team should hold their opponents shotless is not a helpful discussion. It’s very possible that it is the goalies fault.

That is HIGHLY unlikely, and is ridiculous for a parent to say in public at any level.

If it were me I would shut that parent up myself. I would also talk to the coach and let them know we would find somewhere else to play or something else to do with our time if that down stop.

Worst comes to worst, coach agrees with parent and maybe your kid should switch to Middy. Then they can deal with finding another goalie[/quote]

Number of shots is a sign that your team's ride and defense aren't holding up their end of the bargain.  Save rate could be one of two things: (i) the shots that are being taken are good and hard to defend (e.g., breakaways and crease cranks) or (ii) the goalie isn't good (a very strong college goalie, at least on the girls side with which I'm more familiar, saves 50 to 60%).  [/quote]

Right. My posts weren't arguing that, and I agree with you. All I am saying is that people are telling their kids that no goals that go in are ever the goalies fault, because there are teammates who should have stopped the other team from shooting. That's not a realistic take and is setting the kids up for failure.

And btw to bring this all back full circle, I bet the lady who is complaining has a son that makes all sorts of mistakes. Just like all 5th graders to. I would complain loudly every time he drops a pass, takes a bad shot, or turns the ball over. [/quote]

I have a senior goalie, D3 commit, no one is more likely to hold a goalie responsible than the goalie herself. I definitely came to words with parents (often of lazy defenders) who loudly blamed my kid for goals. Her job - not theirs. [/quote]

Calling the defenders "lazy?"   This is just as bad.  [/quote]

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