Going 18-4-2 with a 3.31 GAA in 26 games this season, Brooklyn Aces goaltender Miro Recicar proved that he wasn’t your normal backup goaltender. Filling in for injured starter Eddie Neville on more than one occasion, Recicar held down the fort during the playoff push and helped cement the team’s spot atop the EPHL.

Always stoic and reserved, Recicar had a different type of mind set from the average goaltender as well, preferring to make his statements on the ice, rather than with his mouth. Even Recicar’s goalie mask, a perfect place for a goaltender to add a huge piece of his personality, was a blank white and later in the season, a jet black, making him look more like a knight of old England than one of the best goaltenders in the league.

Simply put, Recicar is a hybrid netminder, possessing the attitude of an old school goaltender and the ability of someone we should be hearing more about over the next few years.

In this interview done on Nov. 15, 2008, before the Aces took on the Danbury Mad Hatters, Recicar discusses his game.

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