the thing i most suspended my belief in aftg was: the goalie is a shortie

So I played Field Hockey, not Ice Hockey. I was a Goalie though and the general experience was that GKs were either HUGE or TINY. Very little in-between. The BIG ones covered more space, the LITTLE ones were more ferocious. Remember: GKs are the ones who WANT you to fire projectiles at them.

Lol, yeah. In any sport, they are usually the tallest ones