Just 2½ weeks after a playoff elimination that saw him lose his interim starting job for the Vancouver Canucks, Eddie Lack is seeing goaltending in a new way. Literally, he’s seeing differently.
The 27-year-old netminder, working on his own time and money for the third straight week since his National Hockey League season ended and most childless teammates scattered on holiday, booked two sheets of Richmond Olympic Oval ice on Tuesday for he and goaltending tutor Alex Auld.
They are working on adopting “head trajectory” puck-tracking techniques that are at the cutting edge of the sports science that drives the evolution of goaltending.