The job requirement for a hockey goalie is pretty straightforward: stop opponents from scoring goals in your team’s net. That’s the physical component. The mental aspect can be more complicated. In a sport where pucks often take wicked, seemingly inexplicable bounces and the area in front of and around a goal crease can look like chaos, a good goalie must have a combination of physical skill, deep concentration and short memory. Gulls goalie Calle Clang is figuring it out. All aspects of the game are coming together for the 23-year-old Clang in his fifth professional season. Clang has a 2.19 goals-against...
