Flyers Daily with Jason Myrtetus 8-2-2024

[@ksthts]

We love the podcast, man, and we love you. Keep it up. Also, McDonald is a beast! Looking forward to seeing him play for the big team!

[@Murph_.]

You got into goaltending just like my brother... he is much younger than me, and he wanted to play with the 'big boys', so we put him in goal. He loved it because he got to play with us. Hey does anyone else think McDonald looks a bit like Lindros when he was young?

[@gjhripto]

Played goalie on my college club team and for many years in the local beer leagues. Being a goalie is just something you're born to do -- not because you're weird or strange, but because you are competitive on a more personal level. It's the only position where you're on a team but also left to your own devices. You need to love and thrive under pressure. As you mentioned, if a forward messes up, the defense bails them out. If the defense messes up, the goalie bails them out. If the goalie messes up, it's all on them. The other members of the team get to enjoy a "team" mentality with everyone backing up everyone else, but it isn't that way for a goalie. I've been in those tight games where that one goal I let in or the one goal I saved made the difference, and I was either cheered or hated in the locker room. If you ever get on a bad team, you'll be tested physically. People think goalies just sit there all game and occasionally need to do some work, but that's far from the truth. You will be constantly moving east-west, up-down, in-out. You'll be bumped, hit, whacked, charged, and elbowed. You'll have opponents trash talk you while they attempt to take away your vision. (I had one guy I played against who loved to get in front of me and fart constantly. Hated that guy.) You need to be physically fit and mentally tough. You need to *ALWAYS* be alert not just for when play is in your zone but also when it's not. If there's an opposition penalty, you need to skate like the wind to get that extra man on the ice. You need to know the game to watch for and anticipate odd-man rushes coming your way. You need to watch for odd-man rushes going the other way so you can hopefully make that outlet pass up the wall. You need to watch for line changes so you can catch the other team in their change and make that quick pass up to your man on the opposite wall for what could be an odd-man rush into the opposing zone. Basically, you need to be able to do it all, and you need to do it while taking pucks off the mask or in the groin. Yeah, you have the protection, but you know you took a good shot in the face when you see starts and smell the burning rubber. But goalies aren't weird. The other guys on the ice are the weird ones... blocking shots with little padding. Ian Laperrière was weird, and his facial scars show it.

[@ugiswrong]

Get a warranty on that keyboard or screen bud

[@TheMrTwizter]

Why are the tough guys always the nicest dudes off the ice

[@lawrencefine5020]

I played street hockey in the late 70's and I loved playing goal tender. Yes it was the equipment that attracted me to the position. Even though I sucked at it, I liked looking good playing the position. I used to decorate my mask like Gillies Gratton's mask. I loved the Lion's face painted on it. First game I let in 18 goals but I looked good doing it. And I'm indeed, weird. Helps to be strange to be a Goal Tender.

[@guidovalenti4986]

230 pounds now

[@nickreschke6553]

Left handed relief pitchers might be the “weirdest” athletes. Baseballs goalies