Sometimes, when time is about to expire, a hockey team will pull its goalie and add another scorer to try and even things up. I don’t watch hockey that much so how often does that gamble pay off and the team scores? I’ve seen that situation once only and the other team scored on an empty net
Not that they’re likely to do that, but are soccer teams allowed to pull their goalie and add an extra person?
Back to hockey, can a team pull a regular non-goalie player and add a 2nd goalie?
The soccer goalie can play in the field as a regular player any time he wants. I’ve seen the goalie (they’re usually big and tall) go forward as an attacker on a late game corner kick before.
It works often enough that it’s worth while at the end of a game that you are losing by 1 or 2 goals. Yes, you are vulnerable to an open netter, but when you’re about to lose your options are limited.
No, goalies pads and sticks are heavily regulated. You can’t put two goalies on the ice, but you can put defence men in front of the net to sacrifice their bodies. It’s not a great long term strategy as the injuries can be pretty severe and you don’t want them blocking the goalie’s line of sight.
Here’s keeper Peter Schmeichel, of Aston Villa at the time, scoring with his feet in the opponents penalty box. Most GK goals I’ve seen have been headers, or ridiculous punts up the park from their own end.
Official stats aren’t really kept, but some estimates say that 30% of goals scored while there is an empty net are scored by the team with the extra attacker on the ice. That doesn’t tell you much though, because I’d wager that most of the time no one scores. As Telemark said, it works often enough to be worth the gamble in most situations. If anything, I think most coaches wait too long, but that’s starting to change.
The book Scorecasting has a small mention of this in their section on risk aversion among coaches.
They note that currently goalies are pulled on average with 1:08 remaining when a team is down by 1 and that gives them an 11.6% chance of tying the game. That’s certainly higher than the chance of scoring normally during a one minute period at even strength.
They said by their calculations teams should pull the goaling 2 minutes earlier which would increase their chance of tying the game to 17.6%, but they don’t give any details on how they calculated this.