How to recover mentally from cheap goals!

flea · College Joined: 16 May 2008 Posts: 41

Hello!People are telling me that i make really great saves,really difficult ones but unfortunately there are times that i give up some really cheap goals at the same game!Any solution to that?How do you preper yourselves mentally after giving up a cheap goal?

puckstopper135 · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 12:05 am Post subject:

Work out extra hard after, or during the next practice to make sure you don't let yourself make the same mistakes again.

Slinky · Minors Joined: 17 Feb 2009 Posts: 471 Location: Canton, GA

one of the most difficult things goalies have to learn is how to let a goal in, and forget about it, just completely reset.

something else i like to do if i feel my game is off, is i'll spend an entire pickup or practiice focusing on no 5holes, then the next one, no goals under the armpits, then one focusing on no goals down low, then high stick, then high glove. usually by the time i get to high glove, my game is back on track.

finally, work on a consistent form that works for you. repetition and simplicity reduce soft goals. always hit the butterfly the same way, always make your leg extensions or kick saves the same way. don't throw too many movements in, and focus on using good basics and keeping saves simple.
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flea · College Joined: 16 May 2008 Posts: 41

And what about positive thinking during the game?What thoughts come through your mind in order to stay hot?

puckstopper135 · Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 9:12 am Post subject:

I sing songs to myself, or broadcast the game... as in, calling the play-by-play when I'm on the ice. Keeps me loose, and whenever the puck comes down to our end my players always get a good laugh out of hearing me yell stuff like "BLOCKER SAVE!" or "Tegel passes to Tegel, passes back to Tegel, who is waiting behind the net... waiting... waiting... come on guys, move it up!" Wink

TheAntiw00t · Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 6:40 pm Post subject:

I think everybody does this differently and more often than not, it's the small weird stuff that makes us different than everyone else on the ice. When I give up a soft goal, I might be upset for a minute, but then I try and slow things down for myself. I stand there with my back on the post and look out at the face off circle and breathe deeply and when I'm calm and relaxed, then I usually tap my helmet with my catch glove and push out to the top of the crease. For before periods, I'll usually put my cage on the crossbar and talk myself into positive thinking and then tap the side posts to start off the period. I think everyone has their own little things that they do. Routines help get your head back in the game.
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Slinky · Minors Joined: 17 Feb 2009 Posts: 471 Location: Canton, GA

Slinky · Minors Joined: 17 Feb 2009 Posts: 471 Location: Canton, GA

also in game rituals. if i give up a cheap goal, i replay the entire thing in my head, and make the motions i should have made instead of the ones i did make. it helps me let go of the mistake and get my head back in the game before the puck drops again.[/i]
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rfalls86 · College Joined: 29 Mar 2008 Posts: 66

Go play on the worst team you can ever imagine!! For a WHOLE SEASON!! You will be letting goals in like mad, and the score will be racked up like it was a tennis match! Then when you go back to a good team you will wonder what happened to all the goals then no goals will phaze you!! I am being serious tho, because I did this! I was on a team where at the end of the season, our record was 3-19!! And now, if i let in a goal, i laugh and think" At least that wasn't the twelfth!!" Very Happy

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Arthriticbutterflystyle · Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 2:41 pm Post subject:

I "don't think about anything on the ice" except for what I'm doing. But it's taken years to train myself to do that. It's extremely hard to learn to just keep going and block out what happened last time when someone skates in on you, but you can do it, and it's the best way to prevent another bad goal. Just like everything in our position...the only way to get better at it is to just keep trying to do it.

CTGoalieRens · Peewee Joined: 25 Jul 2009 Posts: 8

The best way is to watch the NHL. You see goalies give up soft goals every week across the league. Once you realize that even the best do it, you don't feel so badly.

One of the last thing's to get into a goalie's bag of skills is to consistently play without giving up soft goals and you never avoid them 100%.

Also, think about how many soft plays your teammates make. The defenseman let the puck slip past him at the point? A shooter totally miss the net on a slapshot? Those are the equivalents of you giving up a soft goal.

Get over it bud.

auburn goalie · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:01 pm Post subject:

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puckstopper135 · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:41 pm Post subject:

Yes. It's worse because the refs I get for my games are the same ones that do the games I scorekeep Laughing

But then I'm free to sign or broadcast while I'm scorekeeping and they just kind of skate by shaking their heads Laughing

And my teammates learned long ago that it's a normal thing Laughing

It's funny at the beginning of every season, because our team for the past 4 years has had a group of the same 10 girls, with only 3-4 new ones being added... so they're always taken by shock when they skate behind the net and hear me screaming "EVERYBODY LOOK AT ME CUZ I'M SAILING ON A BOAT!!" Laughing