Stanley Cup Champions!

The Carolina Hurricanes are Stanley Cup champions — and this afternoon InGoal Magazine is celebrating right alongside the long-time members, friends and contributors who got to lift it.

Brandon Bussi capped an improbable season by stepping into the Carolina crease for an injured Frederik Andersen in Game 3 of the Cup Final, then winning his first three playoff starts to close it out Sunday night. It’s exactly the kind of story we love telling — and we’ve been lucky to tell a lot of it, because so many of the goaltenders and coaches in this Carolina room are part of the InGoal family.

So today we’re doing something a little different. Instead of breaking down a save, we’re raising a glass — with a roundup of the Pro Reads, podcasts, features and coaching sessions we’ve shared over the years with the people who just got their names on the Stanley Cup. Congratulations to every one of them.

Brandon Bussi

Where else to start? Bussi went from a pre-season waiver claim to the fastest goalie in NHL history to 10 wins, signed a three-year extension, and then helped close out the Cup Final. He is one of the most generous students of the game we’ve worked with — and it shows across four Pro Reads, a feature and a podcast.

Feature Letting Go of Perfection How letting go of perfection fuelled the most unlikely record-setting run in recent NHL memory. Read the feature →

Pro Read Pro Reads 3: Head Drive & Scans on Low-High Pass Outs His newest breakdown, filmed this season: a low-high pop pass into the slot against St. Louis, and the head scans that let him recover when the puck found a seam. Read it →

Pro Read Pro Reads 2: Net Drives, Pop Passes & an Aggressive Stick A three-part sequence against Dallas: sharp-angle net drive, rebound, and the active stick Bussi uses to take passes away before they happen. Read it →

Pro Read Pro Reads 1: Reading the Rush The can’t-miss debut: Bussi walks through a rush chance and the save process behind his record-setting start. Read it →

Podcast InGoal Radio Episode 209 with Brandon Bussi Back to 2023 and his breakout AHL season with the Bruins, loaded with advice young goalies will relate to. Listen →

More: Brandon Bussi’s InGoal goaltender profile →

Frederik Andersen

The veteran Bussi replaced is an InGoal Pro Reads original — one of the very first NHL goalies to sit down for these video reviews, going back to his Toronto days. He has done 16 of them now, so here are a couple of standouts plus a feature and his last visit to the podcast, with a link to dig into much more.

Feature Stop Chasing Perfect — Start Making Saves Andersen’s mental-game philosophy in his own words: if you can only perform when circumstances are perfect, you won’t make it far as a goalie. Read the feature →

Pro Read Managing Depth and Anticipation Against a 2-on-0 His most recent Pro Read, filmed in the locker room coming off a dominant first-round run against Anaheim: reading a 2-on-0 off a turnover, and the depth-and-anticipation balance that makes it look easy. Read it →

Pro Read Facing Ovechkin’s One-Timer Andersen breaks down defending the most feared one-timer in hockey, off the Washington power play. Read it →

Podcast InGoal Radio Episode 48 with Frederik Andersen Andersen joins the show alongside Noora Raty for a wide-ranging goalie conversation. Listen →

More: Frederik Andersen’s InGoal goaltender profile →

Paul Schonfelder

Behind every great crease is a great coach. Paul Schonfelder is the Carolina Hurricanes’ goaltending coach, and he has shared his thinking with InGoal more than once.

Podcast Episode 342: Carolina’s Goaltending Coach Paul Schonfelder Schonfelder on building one of the NHL’s deepest goalie rooms and the philosophy now etched on the Cup. Listen →

Pro Tip How to Clean Your Mental Filter A mental-game classic with Schonfelder on resetting after a goal and keeping a clean filter under pressure. Read it →

Seminar InGoal InPerson Seminar with Andy Chiodo & Paul Schonfelder A deep coaching session with Schonfelder and Andy Chiodo. Read it →

Webinar NHL Goaltending Development Coaches Schonfelder (then Carolina) and Andy Chiodo (Pittsburgh) on developing pro goaltenders. Read it →

Jorge Alves

And then there’s the best story of all. Jorge Alves is Carolina’s equipment manager and practice goalie — and back in 2016 he dressed and got into a real NHL game for the Hurricanes, all 7.6 seconds of it. Yes, he has an InGoal goaltender page. Yes, he earned it.

Podcast Episode 51: Joel Hofer and Jorge Alves Alves tells the story of living every goalie’s dream, in his own words. Listen →

More: Jorge Alves’s InGoal goaltender profile →

Pyotr Kochetkov

We can’t sign off without a tip of the mask to Pyotr Kochetkov, a big part of this Carolina crease. We don’t have a Pro Read with Pyotr yet — but that’s a “yet,” and his InGoal goaltender profile is a good place to get to know him while we work on changing that.