As a defensive focused defenseman, it's my job to make the goaltender's life easier. And when you have really great teammates between the pipes like I do, it makes it even more fun to try and make sure that I'm always giving everything I have to my buddy Karter between the pipes. While this season in particular has been an absolute meltdown for us in Chicago, it has also been a great opportunity for us to practice making sure that we all know how to deal with adversity. Spending a lot of time with the puck in our own net has most certainly taught us what not to do with the puck in front of Karter and Tummy. Both are really great competitors and it has been really hard to not let our poor play as a team effect them personally. I find it super important to just remind both how lucky and thankful we are to have them on our team as it won't be long before they are critical pieces to what we hope will be a really successful couple of runs through the playoffs. I'm always going to be there to pat them on the pads and thank them for saving our bacon when we just can't make all the plays in front of them. Goalies are our saviors as defensemen.
The main thing I try and do for my goalie is play all three periods with a 0-0 mindset, never letting up and playing like the game is always on the line. I want to help them stay focused and not pile on any pressure. Sometimes it's like quicksand where one mistake leads to another and then another. If I get down or my teammates get down, it can get harder to dig yourself out. One the other side of that coin, if we have a lead, be it comfortable or close, it's important not to rest on our laurels. If I can keep the pressure off my goalie and get another goal or help move to puck forward, I'll do that. They play a very important position and it required some serious focus. They don't get to come off for line changes, they only get to rest when the game is over or if they get chased. If they get chased, a few of us weren't doing our job to begin with.
Oliver Cornwall has a fantastic relationship with Vancouver Whalers rookie goaltender Trent Mackenzie. In fact, they have a level of relationship where they feel they can do whatever it takes to keep each other in the game. Now, of course there are roadblocks, Oliver has a habit of giving Mackenzie shit whenever they make a mistake. But everybody involved understands that it’s coming from a place of love! Oliver would never throw sticks at Mackenzie’s head maliciously, it’s just a nice gentle reminder for them to get their poop in a group!
Some people might argue that Oliver hold Mackenzie to too high a standard, but those people are haters and their opinions should be ignored. Goalies can’t be allowed to get in their own heads, and the only way to avoid that is by getting in their head first so there’s no room for them. The proof of Oliver’s approach is in the pudding, with the whalers having a historically bad season
Jett Labyrinth was certainly caught off guard when he was chosen to help out with the plot and casting of the Halloween promotion short movie, but immediately he had an idea for what he wanted to do. The premise is that on Halloween, a group of Berserkers from Nordic medieval folklore come alive and begin to ravage areas of Newfoundland. They create terror and horror throughout the province and it’s discovered that there is only one group of people that can stop them. The Newfoundland Berserkers hockey team of course. Berserkers vs. Berserkers. During this great battle in which the hockey team has to use its sticks, pucks, and fighting prowess, a hero emerges for them, Jason Bourne. No stranger to big moments in the spotlight, Jason uses his expertise to help defeat the group of Nordic Berserkers, and the province sighs a breath of relief and honours the hockey team as heroes.
The PR Team for the Yukon Malamutes would like to heavily apologize for the 100% not-at-all endorsed movie created by certain people within the organization in which it features mountainous monsterous colossal sled dogs chasing down roving gangs of hotdog water bootleggers in order to stop Djoe Anderson from performing to the best of his ability in games. The movie was apparently filmed Amateur film student style, and may or may not have actually been real situations filmed on a handheld camcorder. We decline to answer whether there will be restitutions for any harm that may or may not have happened to any persons real or fictional. We would however like to apologize to the owners of said gargantuan sled dog for not understanding that he was actually a good dog just put into an unpredictable circumstance and will be offering a one time payment of $1500 to be claimed within 48 hours. (We do not care if you thought this clear snuff film was actually good, you're all horrible people for wanting a sequel let alone enjoying this one.)
Enter a dark locker room. It is empty except for two men who are speaking quietly to each other. The stress is apparent. There is a Buffalo Stampede logo in the center of the room on the floor.
“I don’t know what happened. They’re all gone,” one man says to the other. He is shaking.
“What do you mean they’re all gone?”
“I mean like poof. They all disappeared. I have no idea. Never seen anything like it. I felt like I was hallucinating. But others saw it too. Maybe the rapture? Is everyone on this team holy?”
“Not a chance, man. But if others saw it… I don’t know. I just don’t know. How are we going to play tonight with no players?”
“One player.” Utters a voice from the shadows. Both men look over to see Danny Devito playing Ongo Gablogian emerge from the shadows.
“Oh god,” the men say in unison. “It’s worse than we thought. I’d rather ice no one over him.”
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Jiggle E Puff loves his Goalies. Luckily for Jiggle, he has three goalies to hang out with and encourage! Atlanta's terrific threesome is made up of Starting Goalie Stun Gun, Backup Goalie Tanner Pitts, and Emergency Backup Sim Wen.
Stun Gun has been very good this season, with a 17-10-2 record and a 89.3% save percentage. Jiggle tries to help Mr. Gun in net by singing lullabies to him in order to keep him focused and happy in net. With Tanner, it is more of a skill issue, so most of Jiggle's help comes in practice. He and a few other veterans stay after practice a few times a week to give Tanner some more reps in net, shooting on him from various locations on the ice. Sim Wen needs only one bit of help: being told when the Sim is. So obviously, Jiggle texts Mr. Wen tons of reminders about gametime, as well as telling him the game is happening on the ice.
Brooklyn Physt subscribes to the idea that it is best to leave your goalie alone when they are trying to get into the zone.
Everyone has their rituals before puck drop and reacts differently to the way a game is going. Through any goalie she has ever played in front of, Brooklyn has always found that continuing to play her game the same way goes a long way to rebuilding that confidence when things are going sour.
A lot of times a goalie will lose all hope if they watch their team play like they don’t trust them. It’s hard to do, forcing yourself to play your game without cheating to help your tendy the games where they just don’t have it. But you gotta rebuild that confidence.
This extends outward to keeping them involved with the team. Just because you have to let everyone get their head into the game, doesn’t mean purely leave the goalie alone.
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Not a Commissioner. Shh!
I'm of the opinion that the easiest way to keep a goalie in the right frame of mind for the game is to avoid them to the best of your ability, don't talk to them, and most definitely do not interrupt them when they are in the process of doing any of their traditions, routines, and warm up responsibilities. If the goalie talks to you, that's one thing. But do not interrupt them, it's like when you deal with a gremlin. They come with this whole set of rules to follow, but in the end, the rule mostly comes down to leaving them alone, let them do their thing, and they will pay you back with good goaltending. Luckily, SFP is blessed with one of the, if not the, best goalies in the SHL and he's bailed us out even when we aren't playing our best hockey. Justin Time is the best goalie anyone could ask for and I feel lucky to be on his team.
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2: As a forward, it can be a little harder to have a direct impact on my goalie's night, but that doesn't mean I don't make the most out of the opportunities I can. Obviously, I've always got their back off the ice, letting them know they're kicking some ass and looking good while doing it; even if more pucks are finding the back of the net than we might wanna see. I don't think bringing attention to that sort of thing does anyone any good. On the ice it's just a matter of keeping the puck in the other team's zone for as long as possible and trying to avoid quick turnovers that have our boy scrambling to get right back into position after fighting off a few shots. Staying focused in big faceoffs and just trying to keep the other team off balance so that their opportunities are fewer and farer between; everyone else is getting plenty of time off the ice to relax, the goalie deserves a breather too. And of course, you never let him buy his own drinks after a big win.
Honestly, I really couldn't see Dejana Kaptina participating in a horror movie. And this is less to do with her and more to do with me, the user, Valpix. As someone who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 7, Halloween lost a lot of its luster for me basically immediately, to the point where it's like, the costumes and pumpkin flavored foods are the only real things that interest me (and even the latter I see as more just a general autumn thing rather than Halloween exclusives). It's really odd, because I do love the paranormal (and frankly that's probably what she'd star in, some sort of ghost hunter story...one of the bigger paranormal people in media is actually a former women's hockey player who played both college and pro so it's not far fetched). I'm not a huge fan of horror, never was much of a movie person.
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Being raised in a family of goalies Willow is very familiar with how they tick and how to help them on gameday. Unfortunately, no two goalies are the same so it takes a lot of trial and error to figure out your goalie. With Los Angeles, the goalies are thankfully fairly normal people – which means they’re shunned by the goalie community at large. During a game Willow does her best to keep the goalie calm by simply staying the hell out of his way. Nothing pisses a goalie off more than when you screen them trying to block a pass or shot and give the opponents a great chance on goal. Willow also does her part by leaving the goalie alone during the intermission. Goalies are creatures of habit and when that habit is disturbed they get upset. By preventing teammates or media from talking to the goalies Willow helps keep them calm and focused on the game at hand.
For Halloween the Jim Wieners Production Company is going with the ol tried and true way to get a blockbuster film; theft. I'm just fuckin stealing I don't feel like making my own thing that sounds really lame and kind of stupid so I'm just gonna rip off somebody elses idea and put more hockey sticks into it. The whole Friday the 13th franchise seems like an easy target cause the guy already has a goalie mask on, but that series is just too damn long there is like 8 movies or something like that so we're gonna condense them into one abridged film and make it so that Mr Jason Voorhees is using a hockey stick as a weapon instead of a machete. We will not be re-recording anything this is all just gonna be splicing clips together and editing them just enough to avoid copyright. I really feel like the folks of our great nation will really appreciate all the effort the whole team is putting into this and I hope people start twerking at the theatre
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