300 Parents: Looking back at some feature interviews we recommend to parents

I know. It's it's awesome. It's awesome too. The Gear Segment dealing with the Warrior Chesty and Warrior, so that got us onto that subject. Stop It Goaltending U the app, presents our parent segment, and we've joked around about a couple of different ways to go with this because we've already offered some advice.

But the direction, because it's episode number 300, is a little more reflective today on the Stop It Goaltending U the app parent segment as Stop It Goaltending U has come on board during the course of this journey to 300.

Yeah. They're one of our newer sponsors as we got going, and they've been a great I shouldn't even say sponsor because it's more of a partnership. Because every time you buy a subscription to the Stop It Goaltending U, the app, you get their great content and our great content from InGoal Premium. You get a full membership to InGoal premium as well as new weekly content from the Stop It Goaltending U app and their twenty five years of goalie coaching experience. You get daily primer.

So think of it as a Monday to Friday, one minute every day, just things to get you thinking about goaltending in different ways. This week's are takeaways from the NCAA frozen four tournament. Obviously, Brian Daccord, the founder of Stop It Goal Tending, and a big part of this Stop It Goaltending U, the app, was there. His team, Boston University, made it to the Frozen Four finals. So five different takeaways.

There's also a five minute video if you wanna deep dive a little more into box control as part of their goalie one zero one series. That's new this week. A full goalie IQ breakdown, including footage comparing the styles and sorry, and tactical preferences of Jake Oettinger and Mackenzie Blackwood as they meet in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, And a drill of the week, new two player behind the net with pass out options. They walk you through a new drill each week. They've added that in the past couple of weeks.

So lots of content all available on the Stop It Goaltending U, the app. And, of course, as we said, in addition to their content, you get our content, a membership to InGoal Premium comes with your membership to Stop It Goaltending U.

And the parent segment has been an add along the way.

Yeah. We added it on 56 episodes ago. I was really hoping when I went and looked that up, Daren, that it would be a nice round 50 that came along with episode 300, but not so exciting.

What were you doing for the first two hundred and forty six?

Just riding your coattails, and then I thought maybe I should contribute something. So I came up with my own segment and a way that I could get the word in first before Woody got chance. But he always jumps in there. Look. His finger's up to talk already.

Here we go. This is like me bringing the beer to my beer league team. There's no way they can get rid of me as a goalie if I bring the beer. That's this is Hutch and the parents segment.

I am the beverage boy for the InGoal Radio Podcast. I love it. I by the way, I have to collect your dues from both of you or you're not gonna be able to skate next week.

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Here we go. 56th Edition, Sergei Zubov's old number 56 it is this week. I just want to reflect, guys. I was thinking a little bit about what's happened over the last 300 episodes. Not so much just the parent segment, but what were some good episodes of the 300 that resonated with me for when when parents, I meet them in the rink and they say, oh, you know, what what's been an interesting conversation you've had on the show?

And as a parent, I always think about all sorts of different episodes and you guys both know that I've got a terrible memory, but the fact that these ones resonate with me maybe means means something. But you probably have some of your own that have popped up over the years, guys. One of the ones that I still tell people about is way back in Episode 3, and that was Thatcher Demko when he was talking with Kevin about all the routines that he had as a college goalie and the amount of time he had to invest in getting ready for every game and a realization when he got to the pros that he just couldn't do it all. And I found that for parents a fascinating episode both because you heard about all those different routines, but also that you learned that we need to be a little sane in what it is that we do. And every goalie tries to do so much.

And as parents, we try to give our kids every opportunity we possibly can. And in trying to be really good to them, sometimes maybe we give them too much to worry about, too much to think about. And of course, he also talked about, as I mentioned earlier, traveling around the country and working with other coaches. So shout out to the directory if you'd like to do that. I also just wanna mention Episode 167 with Strauss Mann was one of the first ones that I fired off to my son to listen to in recent years.

And he talked about the same sort of thing, all the different resources, all the different ways he wanted to learn. But he again mentioned, sometimes you need to pair it back. You just take need to realize you can't do it all. So those are two great ones I thought, guys. Of course, we can't forget Brian Daccord.

He is the goalie parent. He's sort of the head of the union of goalie parents. He's been in several episodes. The one that he was in where I interviewed him, we really got to riff a lot on being a goalie parent. Brian, of course, as you know, he's been an NHL scout.

He's been an NHL goalie coach, a director of goaltending. But now he's the parent of an NHL goalie, Joey, in Seattle, and he literally wrote the book, How to Be a Goalie Parent. So goalie parents, go check that out. With this episode, I usually provide notes with the parents segment in the episode notes, but I will also include links to all of these ones that I'm reflecting on and anything else that the guys come up with in a second. The other one I I was thinking about was the q and a we did with Ian Clark at TendyFest a couple of years ago.

You can listen to it in podcast form, but you can also see the video of that q and a over at ingoalmag.com. I thought it was fantastic because Ian just tells it like it is. He tells you what they're really looking for in professional goaltenders, and then he asks excuse me. And then he answers questions from some kids and from some parents. I think it's a really good one to sort of anchor your your view as a as a goalie parent.

And you may not agree with everything InGoal to say, but it really gets you reflecting. In a similar vein, Woody and I were lucky enough to sit down with Bill Ranford. Billy, thank you very much. In his kitchen, definitely a highlight memory episode for me, but we got to direct some very specific goalie parent questions to him there. And then he came out to TendyFest last year and did a q and a.

Again, taking questions from from kids, taking questions from parents. It's a must listen. It's a must watch as well. Video over at ingoalmag.com. I think that's a great one for parents as well.

And then lastly, I just gave myself come up with five. Definitely not least, and there are definitely others, was the episodes that Adam Francillia has been in on. He is, as you know, one of the top trainers in the game off ice for goaltenders, guys like Connor Hellebuyck, and he's part of the Alpha Sports Agency. He was also on with agent Ray Petkau of Alpha Sports on one of the episodes, and Ray's been on the parent segment too. I just think they give you great background about the game away from the ice, both training, maybe in a way that not every trainer out there does in a very specific goalie way.

And, of course, Ray answered a lot of great questions about agents for kids, and that's a common one that comes up with goalie parents all the time. So those were five episodes that I think parents might want to go back to, guys. Five things that have stood out for me over the last 300. Does anybody have anything like to to add to that list? Parents, you can send me a note, parents@InGoalmag.com.