318 Parents: Joey Daccord’s 5 Tips for Goalie Parents

Woody, what were you thinking as you were listening to the three of them talk?

Just the genuineness of that relationship. Right? Like and my kid plays sports. My youngest kid plays sports, but it's not one that I know intimately. Like, I I I ask her open ended questions growing up about, you know, how the day went and how she felt the game went and things like that.

But there's just there's a different level of bond here. I think a lot of goalie parents have that with their young goalies, and I know a lot of goalie parents listen to this podcast or get memberships at at InGoal premium, ingoalmag.com so that they can better understand the position for those conversations. But when you have two guys at the elite level and the conversations are still so just as Hutch said going into it, like, just just two guys talking hockey. And you got a guy who's been, like, at every level. Like, Brian Daccord's been at every level, like, NHL scout, NHL goalie coach, NHL director now and a director again.

And Joey, you know, number one NHL goaltender. Like, there's only 32 of those in the world. And them having a conversation on the back deck with InGoal and and blessing us to be a part of it. And it just being father and son talking hockey. Like, to me, that was that there was a lot of individual takeaways that I wanna highlight at InGoal in the coming weeks and one that we'll we'll highlight on the parent segment.

But it was just overall how special that relationship is. To me, that that's what really resonated.

And being able to connect with, Joey and Brian, kinda changes up, how we're going to approach the parent segment, brought to us by Stop It Goaltending U, the app, which Brian is the foundation behind. We had the follow-up from last week, but we're going to just push that back a little bit, that second half, to be able to dig a little bit deeper into the courts?

Well, I think that, honestly, like, that answer that was in the interview at the end, that's the parent segment. Right? Like, that's the parent like, and it's brought to you by Stop It Goaltending U the app. And what better advertisement that Stop It Goaltending U the app than listening to the people that are behind it. Brian Daccord with all those twenty five plus years of experience in the game. The job he's done with Joey, helping him along the path. The job he talked about all the goalie coaches at Stop It being a part of Joey's journey. All of that knowledge is baked into this app with advice and tips often from Brian himself on a weekly basis. This week's primers, quick one to two minute videos that you can watch every morning to help you get better in the position, all deal with posture. When we talk about a break down of goalies and how they play the game and and trying to take tidbits away from it, this week's breakdown is a game between David Rittich and Jordan Binnington.

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Well said. And, Hutch, we can put your second half of what we were discussing last week. Just just back seven days.

Yeah. Little anticipation. Last week, we did the first five ways to have your best season ever as a goalie parent. I've got five more that I had promised to follow-up with this week, but we're just gonna keep them in the keep them over there in the green room and pull them out next week. If you are a goalie parent, if you're a goalie, if you're a coach and you'd like to share a tip for me and for our audience to make it parents best season ever, send me a note.

As always, podcast@ingoalmag.com.

Or david@InGoalmag.com.

Or info@InGoalmag.com.

It all funnels to the same spot. Were were you thinking less a dad or a goaltender when you were talking to the Daccords, Hutch?

Oh, no question as a dad. No question as a dad. You know, we all have those special moments. I I was thinking about that moment between them that happened via text message on the bus. Such a privilege to hear that story.

I think there are going to be hundreds of goalie dads now sending photos three hours before game time to their son this season, including yours truly. I have a feeling Woody will be sending volleyball pictures to his daughter three hours before her games this season. It was it was such a a moving thing to hear about and it made me reflect on some moments that we had. I I don't know. Just thought I'd ask you guys.

Do you have any sort of special traditions, special moments that sort of anchor you and your kids with whether it's sport or whatever?

It's a good question.

I'll go first while you think about it because because what it reminded me of because they're the little things that maybe other people don't see and others don't know. And and here in Nanaimo, at least when Matthew was was first playing as a youngster, you hit a certain level when you play on a quote unquote rep team and all the rep teams have to practice once a week at 05:30 in the morning, which, you know, sounds like pure insanity, doesn't fit with what kids need for school and so on. And yet, for Matthew and I, I think one of the most special hockey memories are those 05:30AM practices stopping by Tim Hortons on the way to the rink every time, the quintessential Canadian thing, grabbing a hot chocolate. And then the two of us, he was the only goalie that season on on his team. I was the goalie coach.

And just those moments at the net when we got our fifteen minutes to do some work together, just gonna cherish them forever. I'll never forget them.

I did like driving to the practices with my with my kids. Yeah. The the games get small talk became shorter and shorter. But driving to practices where you could talk about anything, you didn't need to be as focused. It was just fun daddy daughter stuff.

Tunes. Tunes. Letting them pick the tunes like Playlist? We have like, my my youngest playlist all the time is that, like, that became a shared like, it became a Taylor Swift thing for a while there and a shared experience that resulted in going to a concert together and a memory that I'll have forever. So don't have any as specific as Joey and his dad in terms of, like like, you know, getting ready for a game.

Maybe I need to start that. But, yeah, that's it's that's it's it's a really it's a really good question. I like it.

Are you gonna start doing something like that, Hutch?

Yeah. Probably. Probably. I mean, we have our little messages back and forth all the time. I I'm never telling him how to play.

The only thing he ever gets from me is love you and have fun out there. But, yeah, maybe we'll add a few.

Gotta keep us up to date on that.

I I sent him a picture this morning. I'll share it with You two.

Oh, did it?

Yeah. Okay.

It's tough to do go for Frosties after a practice when you live in Moose Jaw and Vancouver Island.

We should try yeah. May maybe this year after there's a we could share our experience while both go through the drive through in our different cities on FaceTime or something. Exactly.