Summary
Charlotte Payne Update46 saves on 47 shots, 2-1 win over Union at Delaware. Bujs take: she is the most complete goalie he has ever developed and there was never any doubt she would get here. The off-ice variables are what separate the goalies who make it from the ones who dont.Devin Kulie on the Unconscious BrainKulie described his best games as ones where his conscious brain stays out of the way. When he is smiling and having too much fun, he shifts into conscious mode and gets beat. Jamie and Buj break this down through motor learning theory: cognitive, associative, and autonomous stages of skill development. In a game, goalies need to be autonomous. The second you start thinking about how to make a save, you are already behind the play.Confidence Training vs. Competence TrainingConfidence training, telling your goalies where you are shooting, produces a short-term bump and a long-term decline. Competence training is hard, feels bad in the moment, and produces massive long-term gains. Both coaches train competence over confidence and the results over a full season reflect it.The Arousal Curve and Pre-Game RoutinesEveryones optimal zone is different. Eric Comrie played sewer ball before warm-up. Braden Holtby sat alone in a dark room with a towel over his head. Both were right. Your job as a goalie coach is to help your goalie find their zone and then protect it, not push them into yours.The 1% StatOne out of 64 NHL starting goalies is under six feet tall. That is not doom and gloom, it is math. Smaller goalies have to be consistently better than taller goalies to get the same opportunity. The earlier they understand that, the better.Pre-Scout StrategyLook for trends, not tactics. Give your players something they can actually use in real time. Buj tells the story of putting five-hole open on wraparound in a pre-scout 20 years ago, the coach ripped it up, and the team scored a wraparound five-hole goal two periods later.Book RecommendationsThe Rise of Superman by Steven Kotler. Behind the Bench by Craig Custance. Sean Averys autobiography. Burkes Law by Brian Burke.ShoutoutsTJ Hughes scored his first NHL goal off a Nathan McKinnon pass against the Penguins. Gabby Brazil hit the top fitness percentile on her team at Roger Williams University in her first year as a D3 goalie. Bujs STA U16 goalies have three shutouts in a row and four wins in a row.Bujs Survivor PoolHis U12A Admirals team is running an NHL Survivor Pool starting October 31st. DM Buj on Instagram to enter. Estimated prize around $2,500 Canadian. He wins every year and will remind you of that. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.