What's the difference between goaltender and keeper?

Goaltender


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have referees who are unfamiliar with that silly "Goaltender Interference" technicality.
  • (2) It appeared that information that could facilitate anticipation in this goaltending task was both available and useable during the period that precedes the shot.
  • (3) Thirty-four young (15.8 years) goaltenders observed filmed sequences of a hockey player approaching the net and directing a shot to one of the four corners.
  • (4) Goaltending Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lundqvist makes a save.
  • (5) New York goaltender Henrik Lundqvist set an NHL record with his fifth-straight Game 7 victory, making 35 saves.
  • (6) Brandon Saad made a nice pass to the middle, and the oldest player on the ice beat goaltender Jonathan Quick with a backhander for his second goal of the playoffs.
  • (7) If you're a Rangers fan, you think that the extra rest you got could help, but that it could also potentially kill all that momentum the team had, and perhaps cool off a hot Henrik Lundqvist, whose goaltending is the main reason why New York are playing tonight.
  • (8) It was a night of strange bounces and spotty goaltending, even if New York's best chance of the game had Carl Hagelin's shot stopped by the end of Dustin Tokarski's stick midway through the first period.
  • (9) Most prominent of all was the Senators goaltender Dominik Hasek, who suffered a groin injury that kept him out of the lineup back in Ottawa, introducing us all to a younger Ray Emery.
  • (10) Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, he said, “is the fulcrum.” “If we expect the Kings to get 52 to 53 percent of the shots and expect Lundqvist and Quick to match their average save percentages over the last three years, that leads to a draw at even strength,” Tulsky wrote, noting the Rangers seem to have the edge on special teams, shooting and fatigue.
  • (11) The mean heart rate response of the goaltenders was 143 beats per minute or 64% KM intensity.
  • (12) There was still a lot to be happy with – speed, turnovers, goaltending – and as above, they matched the Kings in many aspects of the game, but none of it was good enough.
  • (13) That one was even much closer, with the Senators only managing to take it in overtime against Montreal's backup goaltender, Peter Budaj.
  • (14) It was also evident that the wrist shot provided more cues for the goaltender than did the slap shot.
  • (15) With New York ahead 4-2, the puck deflected off of the Los Angeles King, Dwight King, a left winger, and past King Henrik Lundqvist, the Rangers royally nicknamed goaltender.
  • (16) The point at which the beginner's "reaction-type" pattern of goaltending must be augmented with "anticipation-type" behavior was explored.
  • (17) Those goals, along with goaltender Henrik Lundqvist having two incredible games between the pipes (he stopped 77 of 79 shots sent his way), gave the Rangers that confidence they’d been lacking ever since Game 1 ended.
  • (18) There were a few posts hit again on Friday night on both sides, and some close calls along the goal line, but no moment was more confounding, more given to speculation of random chance then when Martin St Louis moved to his favourite spot – right around the face-off circle to the goaltender’s left – and, just as he was about to receive a perfectly-placed pass that would have surely resulted in a goal, stumbled on his own skate blade.
  • (19) The effect of both the availability and the quality of visual cues preceding stick-puck contact was investigated for an ice hockey goaltending task.

Keeper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything.
  • (n.) One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners.
  • (n.) One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of anything; as, the keeper of a park, a pound, of sheep, of a gate, etc. ; the keeper of attached property; hence, one who saves from harm; a defender; a preserver.
  • (n.) One who remains or keeps in a place or position.
  • (n.) A ring, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object in place; as: (a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrudes, when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger. (c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap.
  • (n.) A fruit that keeps well; as, the Roxbury Russet is a good keeper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3.14pm BST 14 mins: It's quite a pleasing thing that, some 22 years after the passback rule was put in place, fans still applaud a player heading the ball back to the keeper.
  • (2) It's straight at Stockdale, though the keeper needs two attempts to get the ball under control in these awkward conditions.
  • (3) The disastrous launches of SimCity and Battlefield 4 , the confining and somewhat invasive nature of the publisher’s Origin digital gaming platform and the voraciously monetised smartphone version of Dungeon Keeper, have kicked further dents in its reputation.
  • (4) Liam Fox, regarded as the flame-keeper of the Tory right, would also be a prime target for the Lib Dems.
  • (5) This was the keeper’s introduction to English football following his £17m move from Barcelona and perhaps, in hindsight, it was a mistake from Guardiola not to ease him in against West Ham a couple of weeks ago.
  • (6) Juan nearly pokes a backpass past an advancing Julio Cesar; the keeper does well to hack clear.
  • (7) Although Hart turned another Götze chance behind early in the second half, after Blaszczykowski and Lukasz Piszczek had neatly combined on the right, there was nothing he could do when Reus intercepted the blind pass Rodwell attempted to play to Nastasic and drove into the area before shooting across the City keeper.
  • (8) He's got the jump on Mathijsen, but not on the keeper, who surges off his line to clear.
  • (9) Meyler was in unfamiliar territory on the right side of defence and performed brilliantly in the second half but Germany’s next opportunity of note came on the opposite flank when Marc Wilson’s backpass to Forde was left short and the keeper nervously found the stand, despite his initial touch almost reaching Thomas Müller with a clear path to goal.
  • (10) As the storm rages, the keepers of the euro flame have lined up to offer radical ways to rewrite the single currency's rules to make the project more viable in the long term.
  • (11) Eventually, Ballance tried to reverse sweep Ajantha Mendis, but he could only edge to the keeper.
  • (12) You can’t have a go at him as the keeper has made a fantastic save for the second one.
  • (13) Gaddafi, as vigilant keeper of the flame, kept a weather eye open, heaping privileges on some and prestige on others in order to consolidate alliances and plaster over any cracks that threatened to appear.
  • (14) The keeper hurled himself in front of it to pull off an improbable block!
  • (15) Keepers clean the babies by using a cotton swab warmed to the same temperature as the mother's tongue.
  • (16) 90+2 min Howard Webb books the keeper Benaglio for timewasting.
  • (17) He makes it to the area and draws Krul, but his cheeky chip over the advancing keeper floats wide left of the open goal.
  • (18) Stokes sent a downward header towards the far corner from seven yards but the pesky keeper again meddled, diving full length to push it to safety.
  • (19) We felt Tim would be the most appropriate keeper to save penalties.
  • (20) Jelavic's penalty was saved by the Baggies keeper Ben Foster but Rosenior was on hand to head home the rebound and score his first senior goal since October 2009.

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