‘”You can do a lot of goalie drills on and off the ice, but it tends to be pretty one-dimensional,” Lehner said. “When you are in the gym and spar with a coach or other fighters you have to read off a live human being, and if you don’t do it right you get punished, you get a punch in the face. It’s a little bit like being a goalie; if you don’t do the right thing, the puck goes in the net.”‘
Sabres goalie Robin Lehner turns to MMA training
Source: NHL.com