Our goalie got sick during a tournament we traveled to and stayed at hotel. I volunteered to be goalie as I play defense and often times stood in net to allow my guys to warm up a bit while we waited on our prima Donna goalie to get dressed so I figured WTF. Anyway it took me and my defensive partner three tries to get the gear on correctly, nobody in the locker room had ever really paid attention like you were going to put it on type attention so they were no help. We made a mess of it, sequence of events is important. I wore my regular skates as well. It turned out about like you imagine it would. They make it look easy but I assure you it is not at game speed. I got shelled, it dawned on the other team early I was pretty effective waist up and not so much down low. Goalies make it look easy, it ain’t!
