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RinkNotes treats a goalie as its own position, not a skater with a different jersey. Once a player is marked as a goalie, their game capture, their stats, and their training all switch to the goalie side of the model.

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Mark a player as a goalie

Set the player’s position to G in the Add player form — it’s a free-text field, so “G”, “goalie”, and “goaltender” all read as a goalie. You can do this on any roster, on either the workspace or the capturer.
On a goalie skills camp or a goalie tryout, the position is prefilled to G for every new player — you don’t have to set it each time.

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Goalie game capture

In a game, speak what a goalie does and RinkNotes understands it. It recognizes saves and goals against, and the detail around them — the save type (glove, blocker, stick, pad), whether the goalie controlled the rebound or gave one up, and whether they were screened. So a note like “great glove save, no rebound, shorthanded” lands as a save, on the penalty kill, glove, rebound controlled — no form-filling. Those saves and goals-against roll up into the game scoresheet as goaltending lines — saves, goals against, and save percentage — alongside the skaters’ scoring. See Your outputs.

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Goalie drills and reports

When RinkNotes suggests things to work on, a goalie gets goalie work — never a skater drill dropped in to fill space.
If RinkNotes doesn’t have a goalie drill that fits, it tells you so plainly — you’ll see a note that no goalie drills are available yet and no plan, rather than a skater drill standing in. A goalie’s training is never padded with the wrong position’s work.
The goalie drill library is still growing, so an empty result is something you may see today. When a drill does fit, it shows up in the goalie’s action items the same way a skater’s would. Flip the position and watch the whole plan change — and see what happens when no goalie drill fits:

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Everywhere, not just goalie camps

Goalie support isn’t tied to one kind of program. It works on:
  • a regular team — mark any player’s position as G,
  • a skills camp — the Goalie skills variant,
  • a tryout — the Goalie tryout variant.
In each, the same goalie vocabulary, scoresheet lines, and goalie-only drills apply.