It wasn’t quite as smooth as the Dominator, but watching 41-year-old Islanders goalie Dwayne Roloson channel his inner Dominik Hasek and throw a barrel roll attempt at Anaheim’s Teemu Selanne on a breakaway Wednesday (video below) brought back a lot of good memories.
Roloson didn’t quite go full Hasek. He only got halfway through the barrel roll. But it was still a great reminder of the often misunderstood brilliance of Hasek, a six-time Vezina Trophy winner whose unorthodox style was too often dismissed as a fluke. While Roloson laughed and shrugged his shoulders dismissively as if to say “I have no idea what I just did” shortly after sprawling to turn aside Selanne, the reality is Hasek was always aware and in control.
As he once told InGoal Magazine, the “barrel roll” was actually a well planned save selection that he used in very specific circumstances. It was easy to brush off as a fluke if you only saw it executed once, but after watching Hasek use it over and over again – and use the same “technique” in the same save situations each time – you realize there is a science to the style...
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