The word 'goalie' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the player in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, or other sports whose main responsibility is to defend their team's goal. Example sentence: The goalie blocked the shot and saved the game.
As for goalies who make spectacular saves: A spectacular save is made by a goalie who is out of position and is desperate, which is why Lundqvist rarely exhibits them.
Deportivo struck first in the 20th when the Granada goalie Stole Dimitrievski let Ivan Cavaleiro's shot slip by.
A goalie like him gives the team and his centre-backs all the peace of mind in the world and I was really impressed with the cool way he handled whatever was directed at him.
Just a few minutes later, Vasilevskiy, a former first-round pick, took the ice again at the Lightning watched their starting goalie head down the tunnel to the room.
The football connoisseurs in the stands ascribed the victory to the team's goalie, Christian Lassen, a 28-year-old former intern at the Danish embassy.
As Esteban Cambiasso steadied himself for the decisive shot, the German goalie conspicuously consulted a crumpled piece of paper pulled out from under his shin pad.
Nevertheless, his status as England's first choice goalie is attributable in part to the influx of foreign talent into the English game.
In fifth standard at Don Bosco, playing goalie at a school match, he preferred to take shelter from the rain under a beautiful girl's umbrella; his team lost by 11 goals.
Dirk Niebel, the federal minister of development, likened the FDP to Germany's football team if a striker were forced to be goalkeeper, another a defender, and the goalie became midfielder.This was code for blaming Philipp Rösler (pictured above with Mrs Merkel), the party chairman and economics minister.
Russians can see as clearly as Westerners that the goalie isn't trying, that the frontier heroics have been choreographed.
The goalie rarely leaves his goal area.
