"You can't teach size" Steve McKichan on Ben Bishop of the Bolts

Like many goalie fans born of the 70's and 80's era, I love small goalies and I often lament the evolution of the game to larger and larger goalies.  But it has become a fact of the "professional" game, that all things being equal, teams will select the larger and longer-limbed goaltender.  Now this trend is not to take away anything that the smaller goalies have accomplished and how they can perform at the higher levels.  What it does say is that the larger goalies have developed their athleticism and skills to such a degree that they are no longer considered clumsy and immobile.

Ben Bishop's acrobatics combined with his 6'8" wingspan here reinforces Steve McKichan of Future Pro's maxim: "You can't teach size!"