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  • Will the newspaper need to remove a story about a football match in which a goalie error costs his team the game, because the goalie's reputation as a competent player will be placed in doubt?

    Iris Erlingsdottir: "Free Speech" Not So Free Iris Erlingsdottir 2011

  • Will the newspaper need to remove a story about a football match in which a goalie error costs his team the game, because the goalie's reputation as a competent player will be placed in doubt?

    Iris Erlingsdottir: "Free Speech" Not So Free Iris Erlingsdottir 2011

  • "One of the cinema scenes which most upsets me – because I'm squeamish – is when they have to break the goalie's arm in Escape to Victory to allow Sylvester Stallone into the team," says James Wrout.

    England v South Africa - live! | Rob Smyth 2011

  • British-born singer and actress Olivia Newton-John (above), who plays the teen's mother, was quizzed in a Canadian magazine recently on the definition of the "five-hole," the space between a goalie's legs.

    Olivia Newton-John's Hockey Crash Course 2010

  • This one is made of a white, plastic mesh that was heated like soft wax and molded to fit my head perfectly like a custom, whole-head goalie's mask.

    Craig Crawford: Revenge of the Mask Craig Crawford 2011

  • But by the same token, we still haven't given up many goals, our defense is improving but we're still giving up chances and the goalie's coming up huge.

    After mixed-bag road trip, Caps looking for balance Lindsay Applebaum 2010

  • If there's a bouncing puck around the net, and 99 out of 100 guys are going to flub it into the goalie's pads, he finds a way to lift it into the top of the net.

    Stamkos's Shot a Real Show Stopper Mike Sielski 2011

  • This goalie's standing there like, 'What just happened?'

    Stamkos's Shot a Real Show Stopper Mike Sielski 2011

  • Probably more than most members of the Capitals to this point in the season, Knuble has watched goaltenders make improbable saves on his redirections from on top of the crease, or the puck bounce just the right way to hit the handle of a goalie's stick and avoid the cage.

    Mike Knuble: 'I'm extremely frustrated' Katie Carrera 2010

  • This one is made of a white, plastic mesh that was heated like soft wax and molded to fit my head perfectly like a custom, whole-head goalie's mask.

    Craig Crawford: Revenge of the Mask Craig Crawford 2011

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