Sam Montembeault raised a few eyebrows during a recent interview when he revealed he knew which hand pretty much every player in the NHL shot with, as well as the color of the tape job on each of their sticks.

The Montreal Canadiens goalie confirmed his ability with NHL.com this week.

“I just have a very good visual memory, so obviously looking at pucks you can see the tape color pretty easily and left or right,” Montembeault said. “We're so focused on the puck and on that player’s blade with their tape there, so it’s easy for me to remember and identify somebody with the stick and tape.”

That ability to identify players by stick blade and tape job isn’t unique to Montembeault. As he pointed out, goalies spend a lot of time looking at the puck and the stick it’s on.

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