Ew, a Flames fan!!! JK buddy. I'm just happy to talk hockey, these days.
My Kipper story is after he rocked us in 2004, I could never not play goal like that. But it takes a certain kind of personality and I just don't have it. At least as a player, when things aren't going your way, you can always dig deeper. To be goalie, you have to cede control to your team and hope your athleticism can handle it. I can hardly go into butterfly that fast without my hips and knees wanting to f*** off into the shadow realm.
There's a guy I play with that's in his 60s (goalie) and the crazy motherf***er isn't half bad on a mid-tier men's league team. I hope I have that kind of mobility at his age. f***ing guy is probably gonna live to be 90. We actually won a couple championships with him in net. Great f***ing guy, I'd go through a brick wall for someone like that.