296 Parents: “Trust the Process”: What Quality Goalie Training Really Looks Like

And I thought about that. Like, do I just do it? I don't know. Can't do it. So we gotta Stop it Goaltending U the app parent segment.

No Hutch with us today. How are gonna handle this?

Well, we're gonna rely on Kevin's experience with goalie parents. But first, we're gonna talk about Stop It Goaltending U, the app. The best part about Stop It Goaltending U, the app, it puts you in control of your learning experience. They have multiple different segments that tap into their twenty five years of goalie and goalie coaching experience. You can watch the one minute quick hits five times a week.

They're new every week. You can dig into deep dive videos, drills, training, basically their version of ProReads where they have a coach walk you through a video session of two different goaltenders comparing how they handle different situations. The pros and cons really help you think the game, help you read the game better. You get all of that. You could literally deep dive this app and be lost for two weeks, or you can just catch up as you go along, find those moments where you wanna go down the rabbit hole maybe on a weekend when you have more time.

But on a day to day basis, just take a minute a day to watch the quick hits, the primers as they call them, and you will become a better goaltender. And, of course, to go along with your Stop It Goaltending U, the app membership, you get a free membership to InGoal Premium. We've got some great new content up there, some new ProReads, some new ProDrills, a video and a conversation with Spencer Knight about lateral release and how he uses it in his warm ups now. We've got some more warm up drills coming from our featured guest, the Utah Hockey Club, and Jackson Stauber weighs in on a drill that we've got coming up this week. Just tons of material at InGoal premium, and, of course, you get that as part of your subscription to Stop It Goaltending U, the app.

Well done.

Now we gotta now can I handle can I can I be a goalie parent when I'm not a goalie parent?

Well, you're a parent of an athlete, but I think I think there's you're graduated into it. Maybe I will. That you've or experiences that you've, had that can help you down this path.

And I think the biggest one, Daren, is that my daughter plays competitive volleyball. She's a libero. She's looking at playing college volleyball next year. Having some conversation. We've got some some official visits coming up next month.

So the Libero is the goalie of the team is what I was once told. They're the defensive specialist. She's out there digging everything, making passes, all that kind of stuff, but just because she's the goalie of the team doesn't mean that I know anything about volleyball. No matter how many of her games I watch, how many practices I've seen over the years, I'm not a volleyball expert. And it's something to keep in mind for goalie parents.

As much as we want to educate ourselves about the position to help our young goaltender, We probably shouldn't be too judgmental about their sessions with a goalie coach, whether it's one on one privates, ahead of a practice if your team brings in a goalie coach to help your minor hockey experience, or with an eye towards our goalie school guide, which Hutch is busy publishing right now and our recent directory, the way they experience learning in a goalie school environment this summer. And the reason I know that we need to take a step back or some goalie parents need to take a step back is because of the number of times I have been on the ice with NHL goalie coaches and NHL goalies here in Vancouver in particular and run into a parent that watches the session and inevitably comes up to us afterwards and asks me, You guys were just filming for an InGoal segment, right? That's not how they actually train, right? Because the work was all about meticulous details, skating, it's not sexy, the goalie's not so exhausted he can't move afterwards, he's not dripping in sweat, and so it has happened like well over a dozen times over the years where somebody I know who happens to be a goalie parent will say that's not actually how they train, and I will say no, that is exactly how they train in the off season, and there is a lesson there for goalie parents when they're watching their kids.

If you want to watch your kid at goalie school, the drills don't have to be crazy flying all over the place. Your kid doesn't have to be so exhausted he can't walk at the end of the day, so tired he falls asleep immediately. Like there are benefits, especially as they get older, to skating work, to the types of drills that might not be what you think they should be, but they are there for the goalie, and they will help them get better. Skating drills are good. We can still ask questions, like we talk about skating, if you can't skate you can't play at the NHL level, and where does that skating start?

It starts in instructions, it starts in the summer, it starts in the off season, it starts in their practices, so skating is good. The question you can ask, are they just moving around mindlessly on the ice as you watch or are there positive corrections being made? Is there instruction being applied to it? Simple drills matter, but again, if they're not doing it correctly, is the goalie coach working with them, having conversations, and helping them get better? The complex drills that I think a lot of parents love, the Instagram drills that we see where there are pucks flying all over the places and multiple shot locations, like those are fine too, but do they come later in the day or later in the week at a goalie summer school or a weekend camp?

There should be some logic to how these drills sequence throughout the day and throughout the week. Some schools work a rotation of stations, which is fine, but then the logic of building in complexity of skill should be seen throughout the week. Are we working in progressions? USA hockey, when we took the bronze course, Daren, you remember them talking about complex drills are fine, but are they logical in sequence? Does it end up with a goalie stopping a puck on one side and then going to to the other side to make another save that doesn't connect to the previous one?

Do they, in other words, work through what we might see in a game?

Mhmm.

These are all questions that it's fair to ask as a goalie parent if you are gonna stick around and watch your kids go through a camp or go through a day. Now my advice would be not to, just to trust the people you've put in place and let them do their thing. Because the reality is whether it's me as a goalie parent or a a volleyball parent or the many goalie parents who have watched me work with NHL goalies as a video guy and said afterwards, that can't possibly be how they train. You guys were just doing film work for InGoal, I would suggest that you probably need to take a step back because what they're doing may not be registering properly in terms of why it's important and how they're doing it. So just a little bit of advice from a non goalie parent to all the goalie parents out there, before you criticize what you're seeing out there, there are specific questions you can ask, and one of them is do I really understand what they're trying to accomplish today?

It doesn't have to be complicated. Sometimes the simplest things, especially when it comes to skating, are the most important for your young goaltender.

It's the parent segment, brought to you by Stop It Goaltending U, the app, from arm's length courtesy of a parent in Kevin Woodley.

Now Now is now Hutch is Hutch is gonna is Hutch gonna this will be the question, folks. Do you hear me? I'm complicating his edit process here if he decides to redo the parent segment. Do you hear me doing the parent segment or are we me and Daren now talking post parent segment, but Hutch's voice is on the parent segment because I didn't do a good enough job. He's done such a great job creating the parent segment and building the value in it that I feel a little nervous about having lived up to the work he's done to this point in making the parent segment such a valuable part of the InGoal Radio Podcast.

So if he rererecords it, Hutch, it's okay, buddy.

Let's let's make it open ended. Alright? Give him the choice. So it can't just be, I had to to use Woody because you guys didn't throw to me. So this is what we'll do.

I'll go give him two options. Woody, there's the parent segment. Hutch, what do got this week? Thanks, Woody. Alright, Hutch.

That was awesome. See, he can take any of those, splice it in. Now, Hutch, it's up to you.

Or he could leave all this in as he prefers to do when we when we go off on our little tangent I like that too. Us make us look like who we are which is just rambling idiots.