Edmonton Oilers goaltender Stuart Skinner comes to mind.<\/a><\/p>\nOn the latest episode of Daily Faceoff Live, former NHL goaltender Carter Hutton chatted with Tyler Yaremchuk about how a goaltender can handle overcoming a difficult goal against: <\/p>\n
Tyler Yaremchuk: \u201cHow do NHL goalies stay focused and not lose their confidence after allowing a bad goal?\u201d <\/p>\n
Carter Hutton: \u201cIt\u2019s something that doesn\u2019t happen in that moment. It\u2019s something you\u2019ve been building towards since you were probably 15 years old. It\u2019s not like they just fell off the apple truck and became NHL goalies, right? There\u2019s a slow growth to this process. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo for me, that process has already been implemented earlier in your career. What really helped me along the way was when I was in college is the sports psychology of the game. I was like, \u2018I\u2019m from a blue-collar, small-town, Thunder Bay, Canadian boy. I don\u2019t need a sports psychologist. I\u2019m mentally tough. That\u2019s for those weak guys who need that.\u2019 But then as you mature, you start to realize it\u2019s just like going to the gym. Then you get some parameters in place for when things do go south, you have a little bit to fall back on, whether it\u2019s breathing, whether it\u2019s self-talk to kind of get you through that moment. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo that\u2019s where I would start. And I think a lot of these guys use these things, these reset buttons when it\u2019s an offensive goal, a goal for or a goal against just to kind of wo and a half hours is impossible. So you have to be able to go in and out of focus. I think that\u2019s how goalies manage the good and the bad of what comes with being a goalie.\u201d<\/p>\n
You can watch the full segment below:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bad goals happen to every NHL goaltender. Evan Dominik Hasek allowed a few stinkers from time to time.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-205399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}